With a disabled oil supertanker in the Red Sea possibly just weeks or months away from breaking up or exploding, triggering a $20-billion ecological and humanitarian disaster, countries that could help pay for an emergency salvage plan are saying they can’t find the right budget codes to free up the funds. Many of
In ogni Paese, discutere del sistema scolastico risulta essere complesso e quasi sempre conduce a due visioni distinte dell’organizzazione e dell’indirizzo formativo da attuare. Ospiti di questo appuntamento con Bruno Carenini, nella sua rubrica Windows Interview, sono Ottavia Munari e Andrea Davola, ricercatori della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. La conversazione trae spunto dal libro
In the US state of Maryland, employees at an Apple Store have voted to form a union. At the Towson store, 65 of the 110 employees voted in favour of the union. For years, Apple blocked the efforts of its employees. Now the company’s first union is being established – despite attempts at
Ons Jabeur of Tunisia has made tennis history at Wimbledon. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Monia Lachheb, Université de la Manouba Ons Jabeur from Tunisia has become the first African and the first Arab woman tennis player since 1968 to reach a tennis grand slam singles final. She’s done so at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
South Sudan has struggled to find stability since independence. Photo by Alpeyrie/ullstein bild via Getty Images Dr J Geng Akech, University of Juba South Sudan’s nation building never really started. Two years into its hard-won independence, a civil war broke out in December 2013. This robbed the country of an opportunity to lay
Hugo Dobson, University of Sheffield and Kristian Magnus Hauken, University of Sheffield Our reaction upon hearing the news of the shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe was one of shock and incredulity in equal measure. What followed was a frenzy of trying to piece news reports and gossip together to make sense
A volte affrontare un reality televisivo dà il coraggio di fare scelte importanti, offrendo visioni differenti di sé stessi e del futuro. Ospite di questo appuntamento con Bruno Carenini, nella sua rubrica Windows Interview, è Sara Moalli, vincitrice di Bake Off Italia 8. Nel corso della conversazione ci soffermiamo sul dietro le quinte,
Michael Tubi / Shutterstock Chris Stafford, University of Nottingham After weathering numerous storms that would have sunk others, Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister comes to an ignoble end, mired in scandal and having lost the support of nearly all his MPs. The resignation didn’t come out of nowhere – Johnson was already
Some people talk about the European Convention of Human Rights as if it was imposed on the unwilling British by our continental neighbours, but the reality may surprise you. Europe united by democracy and human rights? So whose idea was that? The European Convention on Human Rights came into effect on 3 September
Fatti di cronaca riportano costantemente in evidenza forme latenti di un “razzismo” ancora diffuso nel nostro Paese. Nel periodo in cui i diritti umani vengono celebrati, ecco due testimonianze di rilievo. Ospiti di questo appuntamento con Bruno Carenini, nella sua rubrica Windows Interview, sono Loretta Maffezzoni, modella neolaureata con il sogno di diventare