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A Warming World
In the past 60 years, every decade has been hotter than the last, and 2020 is on track to be among the hottest years yet. But the burden of extreme heat is not shared equally — it’s significantly worse for people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Extreme heat...
South Korea’s Comfort Women Suffer Embezzlement From Their Own Government
In May, former comfort woman turned activist Lee Yong-soo went public with accusations against Yoon Mee-hyang, the former head of The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance, South Koreans, to the dismay of the South Koreans. The 92-year-old was a regular fixture...
Brexit Negotiations Are Poised to Become Chaotic
European policymakers rejected the latest Brexit plan from UK British Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying that the plan was unworkable. While the plan was not rejected outright, EU leaders said that in its current form it could not go forward. Basically, the plan in...
The Pitfalls of Pro Se (Self-Representation) When Facing Criminal Charges
Are you facing criminal charges and wondering if you should try to represent yourself? If so, you’re considering a risky move that will probably result in a conviction. Hiring a private attorney is your best chance for a reduced sentence or even getting your charges...
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Israeli ultranationalists chant racist slogans during Jerusalem Day march
By AFP, AP and ReutersPublished On 14 May 202614 May 2026Israeli ultranationalists marching through Jerusalem’s Old City chanted “Death to Arabs” and “May your villages burn” during the annual Jerusalem Day parade, as many Palestinian residents stayed indoors and...
FIFA warned ‘gruelling heat’ could impact a quarter of World Cup games
Scientists warn football’s governing body that global warming has increased risk of extreme hit since 1994 US World Cup.Published On 14 May 202614 May 2026Climate experts have challenged FIFA after a warning that one in four World Cup games could be played in very hot...
Israel’s Ben Gvir storms Al-Aqsa during Jerusalem Day march
NewsFeedFar-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir stormed the Al-Aqsa compound under heavy military protection during Jerusalem Day, as Israelis marched through occupied East Jerusalem. The march marks Israel’s 1967 capture and illegal occupation of East...
Jerome Powell: Steering the US Fed through COVID-19 and political pressures
On Friday, Jerome Powell’s term as chair of the United States Federal Reserve Board of Governors will come to a close after months of tension between the White House and the central bank, as US President Donald Trump pushes for more aggressive interest rate...
Trump administration pledges $1.8bn in additional humanitarian aid to UN
The administration of United States President Donald Trump has pledged an extra $1.8bn in humanitarian funding to the United Nations.But the amount announced on Thursday remains far short of past US commitments to humanitarian aid, which totalled as high as $17bn in...
Acute hunger grips nearly 20 million people in war-battered Sudan, says IPC
More than 40 percent of Sudan’s population is facing acute hunger, according to a report by a global hunger monitor, the three-year civil war having created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.Nearly 19.5 million Sudanese people are facing such dire...
Cuba plunged deeper into fuel crisis amid 22-hour blackouts
NewsFeedCuba faced worsening nationwide disruption after officials say the country had completely run out of diesel and fuel oil, triggering severe blackouts and a partial collapse of the national power grid. Residents in Havana endured 22-hour electricity cuts amid a...
‘May your village burn’: Israeli Flag March returns to East Jerusalem
Uri Weltmann was tense. He’s the national field director for Standing Together, an organisation of Jewish and Palestinian peace activists, who had gathered to resist the tens of thousands of far-right Jewish marchers heading for occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City.He...
The Palestinian game fighting to exist
NewsFeedA developer from the occupied West Bank is turning a 75-year-old Palestinian folk tale into a video game, and the fight to make it mirrors the story inside it. Dreams on a Pillow follows a mother displaced during the 1948 Nakba. We spoke to developer Rasheed...
Iran urges BRICS nations to condemn US-Israeli war aggression
By AFP, AP and ReutersPublished On 14 May 202614 May 2026Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called on fellow BRICS nations to condemn what he called violations of international law by the United States and Israel, as the war in the Middle East and the related...
No Exit From El Fasher
Fault Lines and Lighthouse investigate the siege of Sudan’s el-Fasher, where civilians were trapped, starved and killed.For 18 months, civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher were trapped under siege as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces surrounded the western city, cutting...
‘The world is sounding an alarm’: Why big tech is the new colonist
Istanbul, Turkiye – When investigations by Al Jazeera and other media outlets in 2024 revealed that Israeli-linked artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Lavender and Gospel had helped generate thousands of military targets in Gaza, critics warned that warfare...