Eve Irvine

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Eve Irvine

The agreement includes a new defense partnership and reduced checks on food and drink, removing some trade barriers after months of negotiations. Britain and the European Union on Monday struck a landmark deal to remove some post-Brexit trade barriers and to bolster cooperation on security and …

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Eve Irvine

12 hours ago 'I don't want us to be on Putin's menu' — Zelensky says negotiations must include Ukraine Ukraine must be included in all future negotiations regarding steps to end Russia's full-scale war, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a virtual … 1 day ago Japan’s aging population is pushing shrinking cities to grapple with a new reality - The World from PRX As Japan’s population ages, cities like Yubari have to choose between finding new ways to attract more residents or focusing on...

Apr 23, 2024 | france24.com | Eve Irvine

Africa's Sahel region now accounts for almost half of all deaths from terrorism worldwide. That was the stark warning heard at a high-level summit in Nigeria that aims to counter terrorism across Africa. It comes as the threat of Islamist extremist attacks is on the rise. International troops, notably French forces, have been forced to leave Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger after a series of coups.

Nov 12, 2023 | france24.com | Eve Irvine

Over the course of two weeks, starting on September 19, some 100,000 Armenians fled the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in an exodus prompted by Azerbaijan’s invasion of the contested region, which had been governed by ethnic Armenians for some three decades. In Perspective, we spoke to Richard Giragosian, the founding director of the Regional Studies Center – an independent think-tank in Yerevan – to discuss Azerbaijan’s recent takeover.

Sep 4, 2023 | france24.com | Gavin Lee |Eve Irvine

Our Perspective guests are two anthropologists who are challenging established critical thinking that violence, oppression and inequality are the natural order of things. They criticise the well-established work of professors like Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari and Jordan Peterson – claiming that their views on male dominance being the natural order are "fantasy posing as science".