When I turned 45, my daughter, Daria, gave me the book “The Hooligan’s Return” as a birthday present in Brussels, just a few days after the French translation was published. That’s how I discovered Norman Manea and became his friend without him knowing. Norman Manea lived through the horrors of Nazism and Communism, survived the Holocaust and the concentration camp to which he was deported as a child, and knew the dramatic experience of exile. In fact, the theme of exile is a

Photo by Dirk Pothen: https://www.pexels.com/photo/apostolic-palace-and-colonnade-in-vatican-city-31741852/ By: Nino Kalos New York, NY — At a time when the language of politics seems increasingly dominated by the logic of force, a different voice emerges — one that speaks an ancient and yet strikingly modern lexicon: the language of disarmed peace. It is the voice of Pope Leone XIV, a pontiff who surprises with his evangelical radicalism and his deeply American biography. Bo

LONDON, June 15 — As a key official component of London Tech Week 2026, the World Future Technology Development Summit was held on June 11 at IET London: Savoy Place, the Royal engineering venue on the banks of the River Thames. At the summit, the Global Initiative on the Development and Governance of Trustworthy AI Training Data was officially launched. The International Artificial Intelligence Association (IAIA), as a co-initiating organization, attended the launch and cont

OCHR GENEVA – The Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, today expressed serious concern over the continued large-scale withdrawal and revocation of Kuwaiti nationality initiated in March 2025. “Nationality withdrawals, have a devastating and disproportionate consequences on women and children,” Alsalem said. “To date, over 70,000 individuals have already been affected by the new measures, including non-Kuwaiti women who have been naturalised th