Music as resistance. Music as balm for the soul. Music that lifts the body above the rubble, that gives hope that something beautiful is still possible. Perhaps it is. Even if under a sky full of bombs and ugliness.
Brent opened on Monday, March 9, at $108.5 per barrel (at the time of publication it's quoted at $105.17 per barrel, the price is constantly being adjusted), up 17% from a week earlier. West Texas Intermediate stands at $104.9, +15%. These are the highest levels since 2022, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine disrupted global energy markets. This time around, the catalyst is the war in Iran.
Tension is mounting in the Middle East, and Italy seems to be moving forward on two parallel fronts: avoiding any direct involvement in the conflict, the authorities assure us, while strengthening national security and that of its military abroad.
For centuries, Italian law was anything but neutral. It was written by men, for men, and often against women. It was not just a patriarchal culture or social prejudice: it was the law itself that determined that a woman was worth less, had to obey her husband and was not allowed to make decisions about her own body or her own future...
The emotional distance hasn't stopped growing. News flash by, one after the other, superimposed over other emergencies. The daily suffering of an entire country has become a permanent backdrop.
Mexico's most wanted drug lord, El Mencho', or Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, has been killed in a military operation. The move is considered far from out of the blue; it follows Trump's mounting pressure on Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to crack down on drug trafficking. In fact, the United States had already warned that it might intervene itself if Mexico did not act more aggressively against the cartels. And so it did, but at what cost?
The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, a 12,725-square-kilometer area just over 200km southeast of Cape Cod in the United States, is home to corals and sea sponges, whale sharks and a wide variety of marine mammals.
Every year in the European Union, millions of new garments are destroyed without ever having been worn. An absurdity that costs the planet about 5.6 million tons of CO₂ emissions a year - an amount comparable to Sweden's entire climate footprint. But now, Brussels has finally decided to end this practice, with clear and binding rules.
Ties with American Scouting will be severed unless there is a return to 'core values' and a renewed commitment to serving 'God and country'.
January 14 marked a date that, although it passed almost unnoticed, says a lot about the world we live in today. After all, for 8 years, 4 months and 29 days, no nuclear weapon has been detonated on Earth. It's the longest period without a nuclear detonation since the beginning of the atomic age, an absolute record unmatched since 1945.