Taking sand from the Nigerian city’s lagoon to supply a building boom harms more than fish – it affects the entire food chain, erodes coastlines and is depriving fishing communities of their livelihoods Before dawn, when the noise of Lagos’s danfo...
The Iran war may have paused, if not finally ended. Iran has lost its leaders, half of its missile and drone stocks, and a substantial part of its military and civil infrastructure. Thousands of Iranians, a majority of them combatants,...
Kenyans of Somali ethnicity who entered refugee camps have been struggling to get national identification documents. Credit: Jackson Okata/IPS By Jackson Okata GARISSA, Kenya , Apr 8 2026 (IPS) In 2006, Amina Saida was only two years old when her...
Veteran Hong Kong activist Koo Sze-yiu has died at the age of 80, local media have reported. Activist Koo Sze-yiu (centre) sits in a police van after his arrest while attending a rally in Hong Kong on July 1, 2015,...
People across the Middle East took to the streets early Wednesday morning to celebrate news of a truce between the US and Iran, following 40 days of war that reverberated across much of the region. In Tehran, which...
The US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, the details of which have not been confirmed by both sides, averting Trump’s threat to destroy Iran. The purported statement by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council that CNN and others reported...
China responds to international challenges, including aggression against Iran, not through the use of force but by means of a long-term strategy grounded in political and economic engagement and the maintenance of mutually beneficial relations, while preserving channels of dialogue...
By the sixth week of the US-Israel war on Iran, Israeli society is beginning to feel the consequences of the war, yet it is drawing the wrong conclusions and increasingly viewing escalation as the only solution. While the world watches with...
A Hong Kong independent media outlet has said its journalists have been targeted by harassing text messages and “stalked” by unknown individuals, the latest in a series of intimidations against the city’s press since 2024 . Journalists in Hong...
Despite Iran confirming Iraqi shipments are exempt from disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, Iraq still faces major obstacles. The nation lacks large tankers and relies on foreign vessels. High insurance costs and regional tensions continue...
The US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire barely an hour before President Donald Trump's Wednesday deadline to obliterate the country expired. Tehran has agreed to temporarily reopen the Strait of Hormuz , through which much of...
Just hours after President Donald Trump issued a genocidal threat against the Iranian people, declaring that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” the US leader announced that he’d agreed to suspend his unconstitutional war for two weeks if Iran ends its blockade of...
"I'm not great at math, but where will the money, the resources, and the experts come from to rebuild a country that ordinary people spent decades trying to build?" This is the question haunting Sara, a 34-year-old public relations manager in...
Iran has had the same terms on the table for weeks — which would mean that it is in fact the White House who is backing down. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found...
If you think the war is over, think again. Iran has not agreed to a ceasefire. They have agreed to stop retaliating as long as Israel and the US stop their attacks. So that ball is in the West’s corner. Larry...
In early March, a week after the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the White House posted a video of real American attacks mixed with clips from popular movies, television series, video games and anime. Iran and its sympathisers responded to...
The Iran war has exposed deep fractures within NATO. European reluctance to support the conflict highlights an increasingly isolated America and questions the alliance’s collective purpose. Meanwhile, Israel’s role and the shifting global balance toward emerging Eastern powers further weaken...
UN lobby with images of former UN secretaries-generals. Credit: United Nations With the deadline for candidates’ nominations now passed, four names are officially in the frame. Prof. Felix Dodds and Chris Spence size up the candidates. By Felix Dodds...
A subsidiary of Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison said on Tuesday it filed an arbitration against shipping giant Maersk, accusing the Danish group of seeking to replace its operations in the Panama Canal. Port of Balboa, Panama Canal. File photo:...
A property management firm appointed by the government to take over the owners’ board at the fire-hit Wang Fuk Court has told owners it has no plans to hold a general meeting. Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po on December...
A media therapy session with the stages of grief — particularly anger and denial — was in full swing among the war's biggest proponents after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran Tuesday night. The ceasefire calls...
The UK and EU countries who abstained when Ghana’s UN resolution was adopted may soon find it harder to sustain the same old script on reparations The most revealing thing about Ghana’s UN resolution was not that it passed. It was...
If you think the war is over, think again. Iran has not agreed to a ceasefire. They have agreed to stop retaliating as long as Israel and the US stop their attacks. So that ball is in the West’s corner....
Islam Times - Simultaneous with the inflammatory rhetoric of the criminal President of the United States, honorable Iranian citizens gathered on bridges and in front of the country’s power plants. While condemning what they described as U.S. war crimes, they...
The Trump administration expects US taxpayers to fund not only its own military adventurism but Israel’s as well. Ending American subsidies for Israel’s wars is one reason why Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) recently filed Joint...
Islam Times - Donald Trump’s contradictory and unpredictable conduct during the Ramadan war—from claims of a swift victory to the constant shifting of objectives—has projected an image of strategic instability that not only undermines accountability but also underscores the necessity...
The United States, Israel, and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, just hours before US President Donald Trump's deadline in which he threatened that "a whole civilisation will die tonight". The pause in US strikes is contingent on...
“Israel must immediately release Gazan doctor Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya,” UN experts said in a recent statement, in unequivocal terms. Dr. Abu Safiya was “subjected to torture and other cruel and degrading treatment,” they said. His health condition is “dire.”...
The war on Iran and the war in Ukraine have also been wars of words. Those words, like the events they are words about, have been war crimes. In the past weeks, the wars of words have been marked by...
Three attackers opened fire on police officers outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, Turkey earlier today. Turkish police killed one shooter and captured two others. The affiliation of the attackers is currently unknown, but the incident comes almost a week...
A government-appointed estate management firm selected to take over the owners’ board at the fire-hit Wang Fuk Court will hold a briefing session for residents of the estate in early May, a top official has said. A man...
US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday he was suspending the bombing of Iran for two weeks, but that Tehran must reopen the key Strait of Hormuz, barely an hour before his apocalyptic deadline to destroy the country...
China has pledged to accelerate its lunar exploration program after NASA’s Artemis II mission completed a successful flyby of the moon and began its return journey, marking a renewed phase of strategic competition in deep space. In a 10-day mission launched...
Iraqi militia group Kataeb Hezbollah have reportedly aired a video of hostage Shelly Kittleson hours after she was reportedly freed from captivity. In the video, Kittleson, clearly under duress, speaks to the camera in an apparent 'confession...
Iraqi militia group Kataeb Hezbollah have released American hostage Shelly Kittleson after over a week in captivity, the US said late Tuesday. The US State Department confirmed earlier media reports that Kittleson had been freed after she...
On Algeria's sparkling Mediterranean coast, the city of Annaba is teeming with excitement as the one-time home of Saint Augustine readies for the country's first visit by a Catholic pontiff. For the city's small Christian community, Pope Leo XIV's visit is...
Man born in El Salvador has been fighting removal to series of ‘third’ countries after mistaken deportation last year US government attorneys on Tuesday told a federal judge the Department of Homeland Security still intends to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to...
Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. Ramifications of the US/Israeli military campaign against Iran reverberate around the world, including in Asia. The indirect effects of this conflict are particularly relevant for the defense of Taiwan...
(PIC) The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate announced on Tuesday that it documented 53 violations committed by Israeli forces against journalists during March, describing it as part of a systematic escalation targeting press freedom. According to the syndicate’s Freedom Committee monthly report, the violations...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Two Palestinian civilians and a foreign solidarity activist were injured on Tuesday in an attack carried out by Jewish settlers in the Masafer Yatta area, south of al-Khalil. Local activist Osama Makhamra reported that settlers from the “Ma’on” settlement, illegally...
Pope Leo XIV said on Tuesday threats to civilian targets in Iran were "unacceptable", speaking after US President Donald Trump said a "whole civilization will die" if Tehran defies his latest ultimatum. "Today... there was this threat against...
An email from a friend of Norman Finkelstein living apparently in Tehran that Finkelstein has shared Norman Finkelstein is is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict....
Iranians formed human chains to protect power plants on Tuesday after President Donald Trump's threats to strike energy infrastructure , according to images published by state media, as top officials said they were also prepared to "sacrifice their lives". After...
History will remember those who were servile and impotent while the worst crimes imaginable were being proclaimed by the world’s most powerful person. Read the full article HERE . The post Politico – Trump threatens to wipe out Iran’s...
Persian civilisation is a cornerstone of human civilisation: what Trump wants to destroy is humanity itself. Soumaya Ghannoushi is a British Tunisian writer and expert in Middle East politics. Her journalistic work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, Corriere della...
Trump is on the brink of annihilating a country of 90 million people. Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams. Cross-posted from Common Dreams Just hours ahead of his self-imposed deadline for a deal to...
Sickening that when Trump and his buddies see the ruins of Gaza, dollar signs flash before their eyes. Dr. Mimi Syed is a board-certified emergency physician who spent months working in Gaza’s hospitals under siege. She is an assistant clinical...
Shocking investigation showing how many workers are winning employment tribunals in the UK but never getting their unpaid wages. This happened 20 times at one restaurant chain. In ‘The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’. Read the article HERE . The...
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