University News: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on May 21, 2025.
MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Public health risk from the presence of asbestos in public buildings in Greece – E-001913/2025
Source: European Parliament Question for written answer E-001913/2025to the CommissionRule 144Galato Alexandraki (ECR) Despite the extraction and use of asbestos having been banned in the EU for almost 25 years, thousands of public buildings containing this dangerous material are still in use in Greece, as confirmed by recent incidents. Recently, asbestos was found in the […]
MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: Foreign Minister Lin hosts a welcome luncheon for Eswatini Deputy Prime Minister Dladla
Source: Republic of China Taiwan February 12, 2025 No. 037Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung hosted a welcome luncheon on February 12 for a delegation from the Kingdom of Eswatini led by Deputy Prime Minister Thulisile Dladla. He thanked Eswatini for its staunch commitment to diplomatic alliance with Taiwan and for its firm support for Taiwan’s […]
MIL-OSI Global: Biden is getting prostate cancer treatment, but that’s not the best choice for all men − a cancer researcher describes how she helped her father decide
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Luisel Ricks-Santi, Senior Associate Vice President Community Health, Education and Training, Old Dominion University; Associate Professor of Pharmacy, University of Florida Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative had funded hundreds of cancer research projects across the country. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert “Me encontraron càncer en la pròstata,” my father told […]
MIL-OSI USA: With the Law in Front of Him, Trump IRS Nominee Refuses to Say It’s Illegal for the President to Weaponize the IRS Against His Political Enemies
US Senate News: Source: United States Senator for Massachusetts – Elizabeth Warren May 20, 2025 Warren questioned Long on Trump’s threats to revoke Harvard’s non-profit status Warren: “It’s clear the statute makes it illegal…And the fact that you want to sit there and dance around about this tells me that you shouldn’t be within 1000 […]
MIL-OSI Global: Falling back into the shadows? How to keep internal displacement on the humanitarian agenda
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Megan Bradley, Full Professor, Political Science and International Development Studies, McGill University The international humanitarian system is in freefall. Following the dramatic funding cuts initiated by Donald Trump’s administration in the United States, deliveries of essential food, medicines and clean water to those in need have halted and […]
MIL-OSI Global: UK film and TV boom hides a crisis that threatens the whole industry – new report
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Andrew Philip, Lecturer in Filmmaking and Knowledge Exchange Fellow, University of Reading Judging by the recent success of UK productions like Adolescence and Baby Reindeer, you might assume that the UK film and television industry is flourishing. And indeed, spending on production has risen dramatically in the last […]
MIL-OSI Global: Recent spy scandals reveal how western allies are increasingly unreliable friends
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Robert Dover, Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull Denmark’s foreign affairs minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen sounded surprised and emotional as he addressed a press conference on May 7. He announced he would call in the acting head of the US embassy […]
MIL-OSI Global: M&S cyberattack: how can retailers regain customers’ trust after a hack? A marketing expert explains
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kokho Jason Sit, Senior Lecturer in Marketing; Associate Head (Global), University of Portsmouth Several big British retailers have been in the news recently – but not for buoyant sales or new product launches. Firms like Marks & Spencer and Co-op have been hacked, affecting online sales and the […]
MIL-OSI Global: For long-tailed tits, it really does take a village
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jennifer Morinay, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sheffield Any parent will tell you how useful it can be to have family living nearby, giving a helping hand when raising your children. In humans, relatives and even non-relatives act as childminders. Such behaviour is widespread in other animals too, particularly […]
MIL-OSI Global: Feats of the human body behind Tom Cruise’s stunts in Mission: Impossible movies
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol He’s leapt from cliffs, clung to planes mid-takeoff and held his breath underwater for as long as professional freedivers. Now, at 62, Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt for one final mission – and he’s […]
MIL-OSI Global: English schools to increase mental health support – why they need to get children involved in designing it
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gemma McKenna, Fellow – Medical Sociology, University of Birmingham BalanceFormCreative/Shutterstock The UK government has announced the continuing rollout of the provision of mental health support teams in schools in England, with the intention of providing six in ten pupils with this support by March 2026. One in five […]
MIL-OSI Global: Financial firms are driving up rent in Toronto — and targeting the most vulnerable tenants
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Cloé St-Hilaire, PhD Candidate in Planning, University of Waterloo In recent years, Canadians have increasingly seen financial firms — such as private equity firms and real estate investment trusts (REITs) — buying up apartment buildings. The largest 25 financial landlords in Canada hold nearly 20 per cent of […]
MIL-OSI Global: Is Donald Trump doing the world a favour by isolating the United States?
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Shaun Narine, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, St. Thomas University (Canada) United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs against most of the world tanked stock markets, disrupted the U.S. bond market and destabilized the global economy. Trump has economically and politically threatened American allies, shattering the unity […]
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Hospitals need to be prepared for war – report
Source: Anglia Ruskin University Ambulances parked near a hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine Hospitals need to learn lessons from Ukraine and Syria as they increasingly become targets for military activity during times of conflict, according to research carried out by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and published by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The 96-page guidance document […]
MIL-OSI United Nations: 20 May 2025
News release
Director-General’s Award for Global Health given to Professor Awa Marie Coll Seck and Professor Sir Brian Greenwood
Source: World Health Organisation In recognition of their lifetime achievements in global health, specifically in malaria elimination and beyond, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has given his Award for Global Health this year to Professor Awa Marie Coll Seck and Professor Sir Brian Greenwood. The Director-General’s Award for Global Health, established in 2019, […]
MIL-OSI Russia: The Mashuk Development Center will teach university employees how to develop the KVN movement
Translation. Region: Russian Federal Source: State University of Management – Official website of the State – On May 19, 2025, the Mashuk Knowledge Center launched an educational seminar, “School of Creative Leaders,” which brought together vice-rectors and specialists responsible for the development of the KVN movement in higher education institutions. The project is organized by […]
MIL-OSI Russia: SPbGASU Master’s Student: “Internship in India Gave Good Experience”
Translation. Region: Russian Federal Source: Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering – Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering – Mikhail Zheltov Mikhail Zheltov, a second-year master’s student at the SPbGASU Faculty of Architecture, visited India as part of an internship program, where he studied local architectural traditions. He studied […]
MIL-OSI Russia: The results of the qualifying TIM championship among students of St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering have been summed up
Translation. Region: Russian Federal Source: Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering – Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering – Winning Team The qualifying TIM championship among students of our university has ended. Deputy Director of the Educational Center for Digital Competencies of SPbGASU Denis Nizhegorodtsev recalled that for two […]
MIL-OSI: Payscale Leads the Way with New Innovative Compensation Solutions That Solve Critical Data Gaps
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) SEATTLE, May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Payscale Inc., the leading compensation data technology company, today announced the availability of two new data sets and two new integrated AI solutions to empower organizations to make strategic pay decisions with confidence, as part of its new approach to compensation intelligence. These industry-leading solutions […]
MIL-OSI Global: Nonprofit news media leaders are struggling to stop leaning on the foundations that say they should branch out more
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Katherine Fink, Associate Professor of Media, Communications, and Visual Arts, Pace University If the basket falls, at least there are some other eggs on hand that might not break. Iryna Veklich/Moment via Getty Images You’ve probably heard the adage about not putting all your eggs in one basket. […]