Cuba is experiencing one of the most severe crises since its revolution. Longstanding economic, social and political challenges, alongside the tightening of the United States’ decades-long embargo, have pushed the country to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe. Now Cuba faces an astonishing exodus. About 2.75 million people have left the country since 2020. Meanwhile, those…
Celebrity look-alike contests have become a summer staple. But this one was singular: The most convincing Jalen Brunson doppelgänger would win $5,000. After the audience at Washington Square Park on Wednesday crowned a winner — a 5-year-old from Jamaica, Queens, who resembled a mini version of the star Knicks point guard — the young champ…
“Many skilled tradespeople – electricians, roofers, installation specialists, technicians and craftspeople – are earning excellent incomes and are desperately needed by society,” Van der Helm explains. “It’s a very money-driven society for young adults. When they see a carpenter doing what they like and making a lot of money fast, they see that as aspirational.”…
Pope Leo XIV urged half a million young people gathered in Madrid June 6 to reject superficiality and become “men and women of flesh and blood,” telling them that the mission he entrusts to them is simply to “be human.” “The mission I entrust to you is precisely this: that you be human,” the pope…
Published On 6 Jun 20266 Jun 2026 At New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, India’s most famous protest strip, hundreds of mostly young people in cockroach masks and with dog-eared exam guides in hand tried to turn an online joke into a real-world force. They call themselves the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) – a satirical “people’s party”…
Mariam Sobayo came achingly close to feeling like she belonged in Ireland. She was born in Dublin on Feb. 10, 2005, just a few weeks after the country halted its longstanding practice of granting citizenship to all children born on Irish soil. Her parents immigrated to Ireland from Nigeria in 2001, and she is the…
Thousands of young African men have signed up to fight in Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Some have posted cheerful videos with Russian soldiers. But many others say they were deceptively lured to Russia and then coerced into signing military contracts. Many have been killed on the battlefield. Though Africa is thousands of miles from the…
Paris — Liberia and France have officially moved to strengthen youth empowerment and sports development through the launch of a new Youth and Sports Exchange Initiative, marking a major outcome of high-level bilateral discussions between the two countries in Paris. Liberia’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Cornelia Wonkerleh Kruah, and France’s Minister of Sports, Youth…
Over the two and a half years following the 2022 rollout of the 988 national suicide prevention hotline, the rate of suicides among young people in the United States dropped 11 percent below projections, decreasing most sharply in states with a higher volume of answered 988 calls, a new study has found. The findings, published…
Shorouk Express AGHDAM, Azerbaijan, July 1. The D-8 Youth Forum is planned to be held in Baku in July 2025, Secretary-General of the Developing-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation (D-8) Isiaka Abdulqadir Imam said in a video address during the Youth Forum of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) on the theme “Strengthening the Role of Youth…
