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Why Medellín’s International Poetry Festival Moves the World?

As the 35th anniversary of the International Poetry Festival of Medellín unfolded, its founder, Colombian poet Fernando Rendón, posed a question that echoes far beyond Colombia: What makes this poetry festival captivate so many poets and thousands of attendees each year? The answers—flowing from poets, scholars, and

Emerging Poets Face Off in Showdown

Bots Challenge Young Poets: A Literary Showdown By Alexander Voronin Member of the Union of Russian Writers As tradition holds, the literary season closed on a high note with the Derzhavin Poetry Festival on Monday. Let us reflect on the journey. Since last autumn, ahead of and following the BRICS summit in Kazan, we at Kazan

Bots Challenge Young Poets: A Literary Showdown

As tradition holds, the literary season closed on a high note with the Derzhavin Poetry Festival on Monday. Let us reflect on the journey. Since last autumn, ahead of and following the BRICS summit in Kazan, we at Kazan Vedomosti hosted five online sessions with poets from China, India, Egypt, Iran, and Indonesia. From November to April,

Sandstorms affect 330 million people globally: WMO

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has reported that sand and dust storms affect 330 million people in more than 150 countries worldwide, causing growing harm to both public health and the global economy. In the annual WMO Airborne Dust Bulletin, the organisation stressed the need to continue enhancing monitoring, forecasting and

Swiss authority approves first drug to treat infants sick with malaria

Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants, touted as an advance against a disease that takes hundreds of thousands of lives, nearly all in Africa, each year. Swissmedic gave a green light Tuesday for the medicine from Basel-based pharmaceutical company