The top source of marital stress, according to a recent report from the Council on Contemporary Families (CCF), a non-profit organisation that researches family dynamics, is doing the dishes. Whether the plates are left piling up in the kitchen or not will determine your happiness and relationship satisfaction. The study …
Read More »Threatening to leave your relationship every time conflict arises can be a response to trauma – Therapist opines
A Therapist has shared her opinion on people who are very quick to threaten to end their relationships, after a conflict. In a tweet she shared on her Twitter handle, the Therapist said that threatening to leave your relationship every time conflict arises is because the person is used to being abandoned …
Read More »“It will lead to escalation, an arms race, an open conflict with irreversible consequences” – Russia warns US and West not to fail in nuclear deal agreement with Iran
The Russian government has claimed that Moscow supports the U.S. and its Western allies in finding a nuclear deal with Iran and warned against the threat of an “irreversible” arms race. Russia played a critical role in attempting to revive a version of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action …
Read More »Putin floats possibility of Russia abandoning military doctrine of not being the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, for the second time this week, floated the possibility that Russia may formally change its military doctrine of not being the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict, days after he warned of the “increasing” threat of nuclear war. “They (the US) have it …
Read More »Could Greece, Turkey tensions spill into open conflict?
Greek officials say relations with Turkey are so tense ahead of elections in both countries next June that a military incident is possible in the Aegean or Eastern Mediterranean that could trigger a wider conflict. The Greek suspicion is that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would seek to create a …
Read More »Funding Urgently Needed for Children’s Education in Conflict Areas—ECW Director
Displaced children in Burundi wait for class to begin. Credit: ECW/Amizero by Juliet Morrison (united nations) Tuesday, August 23, 2022 Inter Press Service United Nations, Aug 23 (IPS) – Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) issued a wake-up call for the global community to support efforts on facilitating education …
Read More »More than 300,000 civilians killed in Syrian conflict: UN report
The report based on eight sources says some 306,887 civilians were killed in Syria between March 1, 2011 to March 31, 2021 due to the conflict. In the first 10 years of Syria’s conflict more than 300,000 civilians were killed, the United Nations has said, while on the same day …
Read More »A New Task for Biden: Readying Allies for a Long Conflict in Ukraine
WASHINGTON — When President Biden met his Western allies in Europe three months ago, the world was rallying behind Ukraine, and NATO suddenly had a new sense of purpose — its old purpose, containing Russia. There was talk of “crippling sanctions.” President Vladimir V. Putin was in retreat, and talk …
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