WHAT the proxy war between Russia and Ukraine illustrates is that not all lives matter nor is the wellbeing of all nations and countries. The money-making war machines matter the most to preserving human lives. That the national interests of some countries are a given, and not so with others, is the mother of all hostilities breastfeeding toxicity amongst supposedly free nations of the world to deny them their deserved peace. This is all because of the Euro-Anglo-American-centric logic fuelling…

BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhua) — With more than 40 years of reform and opening-up, China has eradicated extreme poverty, lifted about 800 million people out of poverty, and brought over 400 million people into the middle-income group. This is a miracle in the history of human civilization and has far-reaching implications for global human rights governance. The United States has never considered poverty eradication a human rights issue, while Europe considers it an obstacle to the realization of human rights…

REFUGEES in Tanzania will soon receive half the food ration they require, due to funding shortages afflicting the World Food Programme’s (WFP’s) response. More than 200 000 refugees in the East African country will be affected. WFP says it needs US$21 million to provide food assistance. In March, further reductions were made, dropping the ration from meeting 80 percent of the food needs to 65 percent. “A few contributions have arrived on time, and we are now forced to makethe…

HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 20 (Xinhua) — At the Group of Seven (G7) Summit starting here Friday, the U.S.-led clique is again hyping up their so-called “law and order,” whereas political observers have precisely debunked the essence of their lies — a scheme to play small-clique politics and dictate to the rest of the world. The G7 on Saturday issued a statement concerning economic resilience and security, threatening to counter “economic coercion,” which will de facto divide the world into two…

MOSCOW/KIEV, May 21 (Xinhua) — Russia said on Saturday that its forces had taken full control of the hotly contested city of Bakhmut, also known as Artyomovsk, while the Ukrainian side said the situation there was critical. Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russia’s Wagner private military group, said in a video message posted on his Telegram channel that Wagner will begin to withdraw its units on May 25 for rest and retraining, and its fighters will create “the necessary lines of…

ATHENS, May 21 (Xinhua) — Greek conservatives received a clear mandate from Greek people to continue efforts to change the country with a strong government, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday after his New Democracy (ND) party won the general elections by a huge margin. ND garnered 40.79 percent of the votes, securing 145 seats in the next 300-member parliament, according to 96.03 percent of the votes counted, official results released by the Interior Ministry showed. The main opposition party,…

HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 22 (Xinhua) — “Re-enacting the Cold War would be foolish,” Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Sunday, calling for settling the Ukraine crisis under a framework of the United Nations. Lula made the remarks at the just-concluded Group of Seven (G7) summit working session as an invited state leader. The Ukraine crisis should be discussed under a framework of the United Nations rather than the G7, he noted at a press conference on Monday, criticizing the…

HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 19 (Xinhua) — Amid waves of protests, the Group of Seven (G7) leaders’ annual summit got underway on Friday in Japan’s western city of Hiroshima. Hundreds of protesters from all over the country, even abroad, gathered in Hiroshima’s Funairi Daiichi Park, not far from the summit’s venue, to decry the finger-pointing bloc that advertises its own version of world order. Seen on-site were huge banners and placards that read “Junk G7,” “No Build-up to War” and “No…

GENEVA, May 17 (Xinhua) — The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) issued a worldwide appeal on Wednesday calling for an increase in the value of pledges for digitalizing the world from the current 30 billion U.S. dollars to 100 billion U.S. dollars by 2026. The target was announced on the occasion of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD), observed annually on May 17 to mark the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention and ITU’s founding in 1865. “Tech is at…

TV BRICS Media Network is starting its work in the organising committee responsible for preparing and ensuring Russia’s BRICS Chairmanship in 2024. Ivan Polyakov, Chairman of the TV BRICS International Media Network, has joined the Organising Committee. The decree on the establishment of the relevant committee was signed by Vladimir Putin. The Organising Committee will be headed by Yuri Ushakov, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. The main tasks of the organising committee are to prepare and submit…