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The first-ever international agreement on safeguarding digital platform workers in the gig economy was adopted on Friday at the UN's International Labour Organisation. The agreement aims to extend labour protections to hundreds of millions of people worldwide...

An Iran-linked hacker group Handala claims to have breached FBI drones and has threatened to target the World Cup that kicked off this week, a monitoring group said Friday. The SITE Intelligence Group, an organisation which monitors non-state groups,...

Arrest of Min Zin, who writes about Myanmar and Chinese foreign policy, comes just month after Trump visit to Beijing China has arrested a US scholar who writes about Myanmar and Chinese foreign policy on suspicion of spying. Min Zin was suspected...

My friend Joseph Ana, who has died aged 73, spent the best part of two decades in the UK working for the NHS as a urologist and then as a GP. But his heart was always in his native Nigeria,...

BANGKOK – India’s military is expanding across the Andaman Sea into Southeast Asia with the construction of a multi-billion-dollar air and sea base on remote Great Nicobar Island, New Delhi’s furthest reach toward the Strait of Malacca, where rival China...

Authorities in Afghanistan's western city of Herat arrested at least 30 women, accusing them of violating dress rules imposed by the Taliban government, the UN agency for women's rights said, but added that some were later released. Thursday's statement...

Exports (calendar and seasonally adjusted exports of goods), April 2026 136.6 billion euros +0.9% on the previous month +3.6% on the same month a year earlier Imports (calendar and seasonally adjusted imports of goods), April 2026 122.1 billion euros +1.2% on the previous...

TOKYO – China’s “deflation-is-over” narrative is getting louder, but the foundations are still shaky. Consumer prices rose 1.2% year-on-year in May, while producer prices jumped 3.9%, lifted by higher costs for energy, semiconductors and metals. To many economists, this is...

Russia Day is one of the most important state holidays in the Russian Federation and is celebrated annually on June 12. Until 2002, the holiday officially bore the name Day of the Adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of...

The pro-Israel lobby is benefiting from a European Union fund set up to advance the cause of equality. A declaration made by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) shows that it received EU grants worth more than $650,000 in 2025...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli settlers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank over the past 24 hours, targeting Palestinians, their property, agricultural lands, and continuing incursions into the Aqsa Mosque compound. In the Ramallah area, settlers entered an...

Myanmar’s traditional New Year, Thingyan, is a time of renewal and public celebration. This year, it brought the release of some 4,300 prisoners in a mass amnesty ordered by the military. The release of President Win Myint, a close ally...

Africa has no problem with ideas, but the struggle is in how to implement them, leaders said at an inaugural forum convened to promote action on development. Addressing the inaugural Africa Development Impact Forum (ADIF), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)...

GAZA, (PIC) The General Conference of Local Staff Unions at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has rejected the dismissal of 70 employees in Gaza, describing the decision as arbitrary and taken without a fair investigation...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a series of raids and military incursions across the West Bank and Jerusalem overnight and into Friday morning, resulting in arrests and heightened tensions in several areas. In the Jenin area, IOF troops...

New Delhi has taken a tough decision regarding an American internet provider, creating a potentially dangerous global precedent for Elon Musk's business interests. India Deems Elon Musk's Satellite Network a Security Risk The Indian government has refused to grant authorization for...

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continued violating the Gaza ceasefire on Friday for the 246th consecutive day, carrying out airstrikes, heavy gunfire, and large-scale demolition operations amid a worsening humanitarian crisis caused by the ongoing blockade and restrictions. Local sources reported that Israeli...

A huge change is coming to the world’s booming artificial intelligence (AI) sector. Starting with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with OpenAI and Anthropic preparing to follow, all three private companies are set to sell shares of their stock to the general...

China has been on the verge of collapse for more than 20 years. In 2001, lawyer and commentator Gordon Chang published “The Coming Collapse of China.” The book famously predicted that China’s economic model would fail within a decade. The decade...

SpaceX goes public Friday (June 12) at around US$1.7 trillion. Elon Musk owns enough SpaceX stock that, on top of everything else he holds, Musk becomes the first person in human history to cross the trillion-dollar line. The coverage will be all hype. Unprecedented....

After over two years of the CUPW leadership isolating postal workers, conniving behind the scenes with management and the government, and blocking any attempt to broaden the fight to other sections of workers confronting the same attacks, the prevailing mood...

The son of a Hamas co-founder said that Israeli authorities released his father in the occupied West Bank on Thursday after holding him without trial for more than two years. Hassan Yousef, 71, was "freed near the southern West...

Note from Tom: TomDispatch (at least as run by me) is now done, but if all goes well, Tom himself isn’t. And with that in mind, here’s what I hope will be but the first of a series of pieces...

Starting from the modern-day West Bank, Jesus rode his donkey westward around the Mount of Olives toward Jerusalem for what would be his Last Supper. As he passed through the ancient olive groves that blanketed the hillsides, he would have...