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On a sprawling promenade in West Kowloon, a gay choir lit up the stage with a chorus of harmonies. Children listened attentively at a storytelling session led by a drag queen dressed in pink from top to bottom. Pink Dot...

As new revelations continue to break regarding US military losses during its war on Iran, Tehran has publicly announced the results of a widespread crackdown on agents working on behalf of foreign intelligence agencies. Thousands have been detained in the...

The decades-old Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is facing renewed scrutiny after reports of Israeli military fortifications near the Egyptian border prompted Egyptian officials and analysts to question whether Israel is...

One of four female Palestinian students detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank is suffering from health complications but remains behind bars, her family and a prisoners' organisation have said. Sama Safi was one of four...

The US-Israel war on Iran not only severely impacted regional insecurity, geopolitics, diplomacy, energy and trade, but it also signified a breakdown of the traditional international relations (IR) vocabulary used to interpret it. Words like war, deterrence, self-help, national security, and...

GAZA, (PIC) Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has documented testimonies from five Palestinian journalists from Gaza who were detained by Israeli occupation forces after Oct. 7, 2023, saying their accounts reveal abuse, interrogation and violations directly linked to their journalistic work. The journalists,...

RAMALLAH, West Bank / PNN/ Monjed jadou - Israeli authorities have issued a new set of military orders that could facilitate the takeover of more than 20,000 dunums (about 20 square kilometers) of Palestinian land across the occupied West Bank, according...

The UN nuclear watchdog sent a report to member states on Thursday with no major changes to its assessment of Iran's nuclear programme , despite three months of US-Israeli war with the stated aim of preventing Iran from...

The landmark trial of Tiananmen vigil activists neared its conclusion in May, with both defendants and prosecutors delivering their closing submissions. Tiananmen crackdown vigil on June 4, 2019. Photo: Todd R. Darling/HKFP. The government allocated more money to...

Iran's World Cup squad is set to arrive in Mexico on Sunday, with players and staff still awaiting US visas just one week before the tournament gets underway. The players, who have been attending a training camp in...

On football’s extreme commercialization Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality , was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and More 3.0...

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 21 May 2026. Digital activist Ibrahim Zigui, a member of the PPA-CI , the main opposition party, was sentenced on 18 May 2026 to five years’ imprisonment and a fine...

On the other end of the line, Javed sounds worried and tired. "Our situation here is getting worse every day," he shares with The New Arab . "Some of my comrades have been locked up here for eight months,...

For nearly a year and a half, Nader Abu Hilal has waited for news of his son. Each update that reaches the family home in Dura, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, brings fresh anxiety. The latest reports suggest...

The US consulate in Hong Kong displayed commemorative candles in its windows on the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown on Thursday, while other diplomatic missions paid tribute with social media posts. Candles in the windows of the...

More than a week after setting out on a mission to deliver aid to Palestinians living through Israel's genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip, ten international volunteers remain detained in eastern Libya, where they have now spent four...

Global airline bosses gathering in Rio de Janeiro this weekend will be searching for answers to the industry's biggest crisis since the pandemic, with the US-Israel war on Iran driving up jet fuel costs, forcing flight detours, and...

For the fourth consecutive year, a patriotic carnival is being held in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on the anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown , the former site of a traditional commemorative candlelit vigil. A five-day patriotic food...

“This prosecution is, in fact, a trial of the law itself,” Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Chow Hang-tung told a court last month. Hong Kong’s Tiananmen crackdown vigil. File photo: Etan Liam, via Flickr. Chow, 41, made the remark...

GAZA, (PIC) Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights in Gaza has revealed that more than 9,500 Palestinians have been reported missing or unaccounted for since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, including around 4,700...

How well will western societies be able to cope with the enormous social, economic and even security stresses that they can expect over the next five years or so? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo:...

- - - - Photo by Patrick Perkins on Unsplash We’ve all been more than a little taken aback by the renewed interest in socialism this century, and not just because we’ve seen the great socialist experiments...

Apartheid is increasingly used to describe how Israel treats Palestinians, yet its global defenders continuously claim that the state of Israel ensures equality for all. The charge of apartheid is often dismissed as they point to the continued existence of...

In 2026, the U.S. population is estimated by the Census Bureau at nearly 343 million, about 135 times larger than the population in 1776. Credit: Shutterstock By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, Jun 3 2026 (IPS) In 2026, the population of the...

Another Hong Kong performance artist has been stopped and searched by plainclothes police after showing up in Causeway Bay on the eve of the Tiananmen crackdown anniversary. Artist Chan Mei-tung was stopped and searched by police after appearing in Causeway...

No discussion of campaigns targeting supporters of Palestine in Britain can end without mentioning the group UK Lawyers for Israel . Over the past three years, UK Lawyers for Israel has intensified its intimidation campaigns, not only to silence voices...

A Hong Kong performance artist has been stopped and searched by plainclothes police after showing up in Causeway Bay holding a red string ahead of the Tiananmen crackdown anniversary. Performance artist Sanmu Chan holds a piece of red string measuring...

This story was originally published by ProPublica . Marianna Mitchem grew up in the Denver suburbs, where she played high school soccer. One day in April 1999 her team faced off against a nearby rival, Columbine High. The...

This story was originally published by The 19th . Adrian Moore was sharing a blanket with his friends, watching the sun come up over Morton Ranch High School before the first day of his senior year. Parents and...

On 19 April, Al-Nour Ahmed Adam fled Sudan’s sprawling Darfur region. Nicknamed al-Gubba, he had just defected from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to join the army, known as the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). The sides have...

China’s swift moves on brain-computer interfaces challenge Europe and the US c.groth Tue, 06/02/2026 - 16:55 picture alliance / HPIC | stringer Comment Jun 03, 2026 2 min read China’s swift moves on brain-computer interfaces challenge Europe and the US...

Palestinians in Gaza, squeezed into ever-shrinking territory, served by less than half the aid trucks promised in a ceasefire agreement, are calling on the British government to do more to protect them. Their calls come after Benjamin Netanyahu announced...

Former UK ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson privately described then-health secretary Wes Streeting's criticism of Israel as "wild" and "hysterical", according to newly released government documents that reveal divisions within Britain's ruling Labour Party...