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GENEVA (17 August 2023) – UN human rights experts* today expressed grave concern about new legislation that appears to eliminate minority language education. “Recent legislative amendments appear to severely restrict education in Estonia’s minority languages by making the transition to Estonian-language education compulsory for all pre-school and school institutions, including those operating in a minority language or bilingual institutions,” the UN experts said.

Indias G20 Presidency has focused on the philosophy of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam - the world is one family and has underlined the importance of global health, said Union minister Dr Bharati Pawar. In her address at the G20 Deputies Meeting in Gandhinagar, she stressed the need for equality in access to healthcare, ensuring access to quality and affordable vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics through a global MCM coordination platform and breaking silos to ensure digital health efforts are accessi...

A new survey says lots of people opt for 'healthier' substitutes like chicken instead of beef and vanilla-flavored plant juice instead of milk, and 56 percent of them claim to feel better doing so.Well, they probably do feel better. The reason is not the food, it is that they changed their diet and it is a psychological adjuvant for lots of other positive things, like fewer calories or more exercise or just feeling like they are 'doing' something by getting on a scale. For ...

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Editor’s Note: China and Pakistan’s “ironclad” friendship has long been characterized by strong diplomatic ties, economic cooperation and strategic collaboration. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as well as the 10th anniversary of the launch of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship project under the BRI. Over the last decade, the CPEC has achieved fruitful results which have not only deepened bilateral cooperation...

For critical and intelligent deployed embedded modules, air-flow-through (AFT) cooling describes an approach that brings the coolant much closer to heat-generating electronics than standard conduction-cooled approaches. As a result, compared to conduction cooling, AFT increases the amount of power that can be cooled and decreases device temperatures.

The lead-up to, and the results of, the recent elections in Cambodia are “extremely disconcerting”, UN human rights experts said on Wednesday, adding that the credibility of the entire electoral process was affected. Cambodians went to the polls on 23 ...

The U.S. has invited China’s newly reappointed foreign minister Wang Yi, a week after China ousted Qin Gang from his post, according to State Department spokesperson Matt Miller. In a news briefing Tuesday, Miller confirmed the U.S. extended the invitation to Yi that was previously made to Gang, who served as China’s foreign minister for the…

The lead-up to, and the results of, the recent elections in Cambodia are “extremely disconcerting”, UN human rights experts said on Wednesday, adding that the credibility of the entire electoral process was affected.

The U.S. has invited China’s newly reappointed foreign minister Wang Yi, a week after China ousted Qin Gang from his post, according to State Department spokesperson Matt Miller. In a news briefing Tuesday, Miller confirmed the U.S. extended the invitation to Yi that was previously made to Gang, who served as China’s foreign minister for the…