Russian Coal Exports Plummet as Major Buyers Cut Purchases: Impact on Production

Russian Coal Exports Plummet as Major Buyers Cut Purchases: Impact on Production

All major buyers, including China, India and Turkey, have reduced purchases of Russian coal. Russia’s problems in key markets for Russian coal that began at the beginning of this year could not but affect production. How report “Vedomosti” with reference to Rosstat data, in February of this year, coal production in the Russian Federation decreased … Read more

Walk & Dance to Fight Cancer: 1,500 Participants Raise Over 300,000 Euros in Assen, Emmen, and Hoogeveen

Walk & Dance to Fight Cancer: 1,500 Participants Raise Over 300,000 Euros in Assen, Emmen, and Hoogeveen

1,500 participants and more than 300,000 euros raised at three events against cancer in Assen, Emmen and Hoogeveen. The eight northern HBO and MBO students who organize it certainly do not lack ambition. Actually, it is officially called a shadowing internship, but the eight students who manage the top floor of the business premises in … Read more

IFK Gothenburg Resolves Arena Agreement for 2024 Season After Risk of Game Plan Disruption

IFK Gothenburg Resolves Arena Agreement for 2024 Season After Risk of Game Plan Disruption

IFK Gothenburg has been without an arena agreement until today, Thursday, and risked being without a game plan against Djurgården in the premiere on Monday. Something that the Football Channel revealed last week. But on Thursday afternoon, both Blåvitt and the municipal arena company Got event confirmed that it is all resolved over the 2024 … Read more

Anna’s Intricate Mask Creations: From Bird Costumes to Troll Wizards

Anna’s Intricate Mask Creations: From Bird Costumes to Troll Wizards

Anna admits that she finds art school homework boring, so she makes masks and even costumes in her spare time. For example, she created a bird costume with moving wings and a beak. She also made a mask that looks like herself. One of the more complex costumes that Anna has created is the troll … Read more

Mother Sparks Controversy by Refusing to Buy Easter Eggs for Children: Here’s Her Saving Trick

Mother Sparks Controversy by Refusing to Buy Easter Eggs for Children: Here’s Her Saving Trick

Easter is in full swing, and according to tradition, many children around the world get Easter eggs with snacks and treats. But in the midst of Easter joy and sweets, 27-year-old Charlotte Deering from Manchester creates reactions: – I don’t buy Easter eggs for the children. It is a waste of money, she says in … Read more

Teacher from Antwerp Secondary School Criticizes Unions Over Calls for Reform: “Most Teachers Eager for Change”

Teacher from Antwerp Secondary School Criticizes Unions Over Calls for Reform: “Most Teachers Eager for Change”

“The unions make strong statements, but I hear little criticism from other teachers,” says a teacher from a secondary school in Antwerp (who prefers not to be named). “Moreover, my impression is that most are eager for solid, thorough reform of the profession.” “Most teachers I know have not yet taken a position. Ultimately, it … Read more

New York City Expands Fair Fares Program: 50% Discount on MetroCards for Low-Income Residents Regardless of Immigration Status

New York City Expands Fair Fares Program: 50% Discount on MetroCards for Low-Income Residents Regardless of Immigration Status

The City of New York reminded New Yorkers that the Fair Fares program, which offers MetroCards at a 50% discount to low-income New Yorkers regardless of their immigration status, has expanded and many more people now qualify for this benefit. In late 2023, Mayor Eric Adams announced a substantial investment and expansion of eligibility for … Read more

Public Hospitals Struggle with Bed and Staff Shortages: The Rise of Hospital Marketing and its Implications

Public Hospitals Struggle with Bed and Staff Shortages: The Rise of Hospital Marketing and its Implications

Bed shortages. Hospital staff shortages. Prolonged waits in emergency rooms. Death on stretchers. Deprogramming of surgical procedures. Public hospitals, whose deficit has tripled in one year, can no longer meet the health needs of the population. The French Hospital Federation has thus noted a cumulative under-use of 3.5 million hospital stays between 2019 and 2023, … Read more

Why the European Parliament and Hamburg District Assembly Elections Matter: Ensuring Recognition, Respect, and Security for All

Why the European Parliament and Hamburg District Assembly Elections Matter: Ensuring Recognition, Respect, and Security for All

The elections to the European Parliament and the Hamburg district assemblies will take place on June 9, 2024. The latter may seem too unimportant to us and Brussels and Strasbourg too “far away”, but it is true: it doesn’t matter who represents us in the parliaments! Neither in the European Parliament nor in the seven … Read more

Beyoncé Releases First Country Album: African-American Influence in Genre Highlighted

Beyoncé Releases First Country Album: African-American Influence in Genre Highlighted

Beyoncé, world queen of R’n’B and pop, releases her first album labeled country music, nourished by her native Texas and highlighting the African-American influence in this popular genre with a very conservative image. From her first female gospel and R’n’B group, Destiny’s Child, to her 2016 hit Daddy LessonsBeyoncé highlighted her native South and the … Read more