L’appello: “Rischio stupro e omicidio, portiamo in Italia le nostre collaboratrici afghane”
Read More “L’impasse è politico, nessuno vuole prendersi la responsabilità di far venire profughi dall’Afghanistan perché poi si scatenerebbe il dibattito di come e dove accogliere. Ma le nostre cooperanti là rischiano e devono poter venire in Italia”. Il presidente della Fondazione Pangea Onlus Luca Lo Presti, milanese impegnato da 18 anni sul fronte dell’emancipazione […]
Breakthrough technique detects magnetic field history in prehistoric stone tools
Read More Among the things we take for granted is Earth’s magnetic field, which among other things protects us from harmful radiation. But it is a fickle beast. It fluctuates, it intensifies and weakens, the poles move – and let’s not even discuss their tendency to flip. Since the magnetic field protects life-forms from hazardous […]
I grew up watching settlers attacking my Palestinian village. They’re becoming bolder. I’m afraid
Read More In 2005, on the day I celebrated my tenth birthday, I saw settlers attacking my family for the first time. I remember my father plowing my family’s land in the southern Hebron Hills, as my mother and I watched from nearby. I remember holding her hand as a group of masked men, from […]
How Jerusalem’s ‘PLO Hotel’ became Israeli tourists’ favorite spot
Read More If location is everything, there could hardly be a less probable destination for Israeli summer vacationers. Just a few months ago, this was the epicenter of the violence that threatened to escalate to full-blown war in the Middle East. Clashes that began in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah – triggered by […]
Meron probe to begin next week, with northern district police chief as first witness
Read More The state commission of inquiry into last spring’s disaster on Mount Meron will begin gathering testimony on Sunday next week, the panel announced on Monday, three months after the deadly stampede at Israel’s biggest religious festival that claimed the lives of 45 celebrants. The first witness to be called before the commission will […]
ANC’s Danny Msiza ordered to step aside or face suspension
Read More ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte has ordered the ANC’s Limpopo secretary Soviet Lekganyane to implement the step-aside rule against the party’s provincial treasurer, Danny Msiza, “consistently” and without “deviation”. In a letter dated 16 August, Duarte states that the national executive committee (NEC) was unambiguous in its resolve that the step-aside resolution […]
Afghanistan, Ahmad Massud: “Siamo la resistenza, il mondo ci aiuti”
Read More Popolo afgano, fratelli mujahidin, amici della libertà in tutto il mondo! La tirannia trionfa in Afghanistan. Nel chiasso e nel furore, s’instaura la schiavitù. Un’orribile vendetta si abbatterà sul nostro Paese martirizzato. Kabul sta già gemendo. La nostra patria è in catene. Tutto è perduto? No. Ho ereditato da mio padre, l’eroe nazionale […]
Kabul, quegli uomini che cadono
Read More Quei due uomini che cadono dal carrello dell’aereo in decollo da Kabul precipitano in un cerchio tragico della storia, senza rete, largo vent’anni. A chiunque ne hanno ricordati altri che, l’11 settembre 2001, si lanciavano per non bruciare dentro le torri gemelle. Tutti quanti, ora e allora, fuggivano da una morte lenta: non […]
Afghanistan, a Kabul è scattata la caccia alle donne: “Non lasciateci sole o ci uccideranno”
Read More ROMA – Non ci saranno nomi. Non ci saranno foto, solo parole perché ora in Afghanistan, è il tempo della paura. “Siamo nascoste in cantina. Siamo sole. Vi prego portateci via”, è la voce in lacrime di una ragazza di 24 anni che ha studiato, lavora per un’Ong internazionale. E ormai da tre […]
Israeli researchers just solved a problem baffling physicists since the days of Newton
Read More January 1889 marked the 60th birthday of Sweden’s King Oscar II. To commemorate the milestone, the monarch – who studied mathematics in his youth and even founded the journal Acta Mathematica (still considered one of the most prestigious in the field) – decided to hold a scientific competition. He offered a prize to […]
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