Among the election promises of the current US President Joe Biden, if elected, he will organize a global democracy conference in the first year. According to that promise, the first democracy conference was held. The question of how democratic this democratic conference is has been raised. Because 112 countries have been selected to participate in […]
Author: Taslima Hyat
USA’s contribution to repatriate the Rohingyas and lessons for India & China
The Rohingya are the most persecuted minority group in the world. Such persecution has forced Rohingyas into Bangladesh for many years, with significant spikes following violent attacks in 1978, 1992, and again in 2016. More than 700,000 were forced to flee from Myanmar following a brutal military crackdown in 2017. Around 1.2 million Rohingyas are […]
Qatari fan sets world record for most matches attended at FIFA World Cup
Hamad Abdulaziz, a football fan from Qatar, has been recognized as the holder of a one-of-a-kind world record for “most matches attended at a single football FIFA World Cup by an individual,” after attending 44 of the 64 games during the Qatar World Cup 2022. The 39-year-old’s participation in a single FIFA World Cup tournament […]
50-year-old message in a bottle found in Pennsylvania park
A visitor to a Pennsylvania state park discovered a bottle on the ground in the woods containing a message from a family camping trip 50 years earlier. Joe Fresetta said he and his wife, Marci Mowery, were at Fowlers Hollow State Park in Perry County when he noticed wheat on the ground that he initially […]
Fat cat becomes Polish city’s top rated tourist attraction
Gacek, an overweight black-and-white street cat, is the top-rated tourist attraction in the Polish city of Szczecin, with a nearly perfect 4.9/5.0 star rating from thousands of Google reviews. Szczecin, a medieval city in northwestern Poland near the German border, has a lot to offer visitors. The Pomeranian Duke’s Castle and Kasprowicza Park are two […]
A Silent Crisis
As we look at the concept of universal human rights, within that spectrum perhaps the most important and common denominator in almost all the conventions or constitutions exists the unalienable right to freedom of expression, vested within every person from birth, regardless of their religion, gender, race, caste or any other identifier of a human […]
Decline of Science in the Muslim World
Imagine treading through the helical streets of medieval Baghdad, passing by markets, and fussing with merchants selling exotic goods from remote lands. Amidst the clamor, you hear snippets of conversation about the latest scientific discoveries: a new theorem in mathematics, a groundbreaking technique in medicine, or a revolutionary invention in astronomy. Yet today, that light […]
Twitter boss Elon Musk calls U.S. media and schools ‘racist against whites & Asians’
On Sunday, Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter, accused “the media” and “elite colleges and high schools” of being “racist” against white and Asian people, without providing evidence. Musk made his remarks on Twitter, where he has nearly 130 million followers, in response to news that media outlets across the country have decided […]