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Greeks are celebrating love by legalising same-sex marriage, first Orthodox Christian country to do so and might be the last seeing as in that part of the world family values is seen as more important to society...

Lavrov has arrived in Latin America to go on a regional tour and cement ties with traditional allies. In recent months it has been suggested that the Russians will install nukes in the region maybe in Venezuela, Cuba or even Nicaragua. This region is no longer considered America's backyard...

Happened a few times to me is anyone else experiencing this from time to time on here?

In politics If you make nasty comments about a Women saying they are ugly or over weight you get called out and rightly so but what if you say the person is attractive, hot than it is a compliment so it would not be offensive, agree or not.

Former French EU president of the European Commission Jacques Delors and founder of the € and former German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble an architect of German reunification have passed away. RIP to both of them. Great Europeans.

Here the poll for IOTY 2023

The International Court of Justice has ruled that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela can go ahead with a referendum on Guyana Essequiba which Venezuela considers part of it's territory now a referendum will be held tomorrow Sunday 3rd of December. Essequiba was given to Guyana in 1966 by the...

The former head of the far right wing party Vox in Spain has been shot. https://apnews.com/article/spain-shooting-politician-d98bb2f3c482eb006ece10b8669d4c12 Just a little background information on this Spain has been tryjng to put together a coalition gvt the right failed to do so the left...

The Francophone African countries are rebelling against French rule, Burkino Faso, Mali and Niger along with Gabon all throwing out the French and other Europeans and Americans. This comes on the back of decades of the French controlling the Franc currency of 14 African countries and gold and...

This week the two South Asian states celebrate 76 anniversary of independence from colonial rule, 14 August 1947 for Pakistan and 15 of August for India, congratulations it is worth remembering the US at that time the late 40's was very much in favour of the Sub continent breaking away from...

Hawaii island is in ruins, wildfires and heatwaves in Greece, Italy, Algeria and Portugal. Flooding in Norway, Slovenia and China. The planet is burning up and yet still the move away from fossil fuels is at snail pace than the refugee crisis is also related to to warmer climate too.

Caribbean and Latin American countries have been meeting in Brussels as part of a CELAC summit with EU counterpart and they want an end to sanctions on the island of Cuba, the EU still dies trade with Cuba but the Americans are still an enemy. Let's hope the summit can make progress but so far...

Since we have a Dublin thread that says it's a shithole and a Cork thread that says it's going to the dogs let's have a Belfast but this time instead of slagging off the Ulster city let us talk about Beautiful Belfast. This forum can be quite negative at times let us be Positive...

On July 11th 1921 the War of Independence came to an end when Republicans and the British gvt agreed to a truce between both sides that would ultimately lead to a treaty and creation of the Irish Free State.

Uprising in France, fires, explosions, looters it is all happening now sparked by the shooting of a teen by police, unbelievable scenes, Palestinians get shot and killed most days by Israel but you don't see so much destruction. We have had Iranian, Chinese, Pakistani, Arab and Russian civil...

Lula has met with Venezuela's Maduro in Brazil. This signifiers the coming together of Latin American gvts. A second Pink Tide has come to the continent. Once in 2002 the Bush adm tried a coup on the Bolivian Republic under Chavez now the left are coming together. Breath of fresh air.

Today is the day, Turks have gone to the polls, a coalition of pro western social democrats on one side and a more authoritarian long lasting president on the other. It could be a narrow victory like we saw in America and Brazil. Interesting to see how this unfolds.

Covid over now presented with a new problem. This will be an election issue for sure. https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2023/0512/1383142-us-mexico/

Syria is celebrating its independence day and it has endured so much, war, terrorism, sanctions, cholera outbreak and earthquake. In recent times the country has rebuilt herself and rejoined the international community. Lets hope that in future anniversaries the country will be in a better...

Talk about vigilante justice. Shocking. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/16/ex-mp-atiq-ahmed-brother-shot-dead-on-live-tv-in-india