Queen Elizabeth II is dead
Queen Elizabeth II of England died at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, this Thursday, September 8, 2022, at the age of 96. She was the head…
Category: Miscellaneous
Military coup in Burma
The Burmese army has just orchestrated a coup d’État, the 4th since independence in 1948. Head of State Win Myint and the country’s iconic…
Coronavirus: 100,000+ people infected worldwide
The COVID-19 coronavirus flu is infecting the world more and more. There are Friday, March 6, more than 100,000 people infected, and 3,411 dead…
70 years of human rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 is celebrating its 70th birthday today. On December 10, 1948, the 58 Member States that then…
World Tourism: New Record in 2017
Tourism continues its momentum in 2017. For 8 years, the growth of the sector is uninterrupted. In 2017, it was +7%, with 1.323 billion…
Mandela Day
Today we are celebrating the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela. The “Mandela Day”. Mandela will always embody the struggle against oppression, resistance,…
Koreas: historic meeting between the two leaders of north and south
The two leaders of North Korea and South Korea met Friday, April 27. Kim Jong-un, for the north, and Moon Jae-in, for the south,…
Swaziland changes its name
Swaziland has just decided to change its name on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its independence. It will henceforth be called eSwatini,…
Martin Luther King was murdered 50 years ago
Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King was murdered in Memphis. He fought for human rights, including the civil rights of African Americans, but…
One billion people in the Americas
The American continent, which extends from Canada‘s Great North to the southernmost tip of Chile, now has more than one billion inhabitants. The Americas…