Bitget Launchpool s’apprête à coter Towns Protocol (TOWNS) avec plus de 16 millions de jetons en récompense à la clé
VICTORIA, Seychelles, 07 août 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, première bourse de cryptomonnaies et société Web3, annonce l’intégration de Towns Protocol (TOWNS) sur son Launchpool et sa cotation sur sa plateforme de trading au comptant. Les transactions pour la paire TOWNS/USDT débuteront le 5 août 2025 à 14 h 30...
Women From Landlocked Developing Countries Set Sights on Open Horizons
“Progress towards gender equality and equity remains uneven and far too slow. One in four women in landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) live in extreme poverty, and this is nearly 75 million women,” said Rabab Fatima, Secretary-General of the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries or LLDC3 ongoing in Awaza, Turkmenistan. Fatima, who is […]
From Semei to Hiroshima: Astana Times Editor on Bringing Global Solidarity Through Journalism
Atomic Bomb Dome by Jan Letzel and modern Hiroshima. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
By Katsuhiro AsagiriTOKYO / ASTANA, Aug 7 2025 – Eighty years ago, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki left a lasting reminder to humanity of the inhuman nature of nuclear weapons. Kazakhstan, too, is a nation deeply scarred by nuclear tests conducted during the Soviet era. Having covered the activities...
Global Supply Chain Failures are Causing Pharmaceutical Contamination
Medicines contaminated by toxic excipients which are normally used as solvents or antifreeze have resulted in multiple deaths and health complications, as a new UN report finds. Credit: Unsplash/Mina Rad
By Maximilian MalawistaNEW YORK, Aug 7 2025 – The contamination of pharmaceutical medicines through toxic excipients is killing many and harming others. The UN agencies for health and drugs...
Haiti Faces a ‘Critical Turning Point’ Amid Escalated Violence and Funding Cuts
Christiana, a mother of six, fled repeated waves of armed violence, first from her home in Morne Blanc, where her husband was killed in 2024, then from Mirebalais in March 2025, seeking safety in Boucan Carré. Credit: UNICEF/Herold Joseph
By Oritro KarimUNITED NATIONS, Aug 7 2025 – The humanitarian situation in Haiti has deteriorated significantly in the past few weeks, with the United Nations...
Moratorium on Nuclear Test Detonations is Hanging by a Slender Thread in these Troubled Times
A nuclear test is carried out on an island in French Polynesia in 1971. Credit: CTBTO
By Tariq RaufVIENNA, Austria, Aug 7 2025 – On 16th July this year I was at the University of Chicago, attending a Nobel Laureate Assembly, and visited the site where at 15:25 PM local time on 2 December 1942, the nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi achieved the first self-sustaining atomic fission chain reaction.
Three...
Adesso Basta! Enough Is Enough. Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing
By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug 7 2025 – On August the first, the Italian daily La Repubblica published an interview with David Grossman, Israel’s most renown author and supporter of a “two-state solution”, as well as an outspoken critic of Israel’s violence against Palestinian civilians.
Israeli presence on the West Bank. The orange and red patches are what remains of Palestinian...
Africa’s ‘Land-Linked’ Nations Chart a New Trade Route to Prosperity
UNDP Resident Representative in Ethiopia, Samuel Doe, addressing the media in Awaza, Turkmenistan, about the land-linked roadmap for Africa. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS
By Kizito MakoyeAWAZA, Turkmenistan, Aug 7 2025 – Once relegated to the periphery of Africa’s economic map due to their lack of coastline, the continent’s landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) are now reframing their geographic...
Why Should We Ask for Angela When You Don’t Have to Ask for Alex?
Our goal should be a world where women don’t have to code-switch for survival, where they can dance, date, drink, and dream without calculating exit routes. Credit: Shutterstock
By ElsaMarie D’SilvaMUMBAI, India, Aug 7 2025 – It’s a quiet code with a loud message: “Ask for Angela.”
In bars and clubs across the UK, women have been informed to discreetly use this phrase if they feel...
Latin America’s Electric Mobility on China’s Path
The mega-ship BYD Shenzhen arrived on May 28 at the port of Itajaí in southern Brazil, carrying 7,292 electric vehicles from the Chinese company BYD. It set a record for this type of transport, with unloading taking four days. Credit: Porto de Itajaí
By Mario OsavaRIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 7 2025 – Residents near the port of Itajaí in southern Brazil celebrated the arrival of 7,292 electric...
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