On February 2nd, 2022, Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute designed to save treasure of the Age of Global Enlightenment at the AIWS City, it includes historical documents, images of: World Leader for Peace and Security Award: Shinzo Abe, Prime...
President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga’s Speech at the Conference “Remaking Ukraine – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”
Thank you, Governor Dukakis, Chair of BGF. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I shall be as brief as I can, because it's been a long session. To start with, may I really congratulate the Boston Global Forum and the Michael Dukakis Institute, and all those who...
Twitter steps up its anti-terrorism efforts
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Japanese official says relations with China getting worse
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The Internet looks worse and worse
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Germany, Facebook in tiff over criminal investigations
Reuters has reported that Facebook is rejecting claims by German officials that the social-media company was reluctant to co-operate with them on criminal investigations of recent violent incidents in the country . The company says that many of the government's...