UK maternity scandal review finds 200 avoidable baby deaths
LONDON—A review into a scandal-hit British hospital group concluded March 30 that persistent failures in maternity care contributed to the avoidable deaths of more...
UN’s Bachelet hails ‘millions of voices’ tackling racial discrimination
More than two decades after the signing of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action (PoA)—the UN’s blueprint to tackle racism and other forms of discrimination—UN...
Rockets fired near base housing Turkish troops in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province
A number of rockets have rocked a military base in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, which houses Turkish military forces engaged in ongoing operations against...
Response plan launched to support 1.4 million Rohingya and Bangladeshis
“Robust and sustained international support” is again needed for Rohingya refugees and the Bangladeshi communities generously hosting them, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said...
UN highlights human cost of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The United Nations on March 29 remembered the horrors of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and its continued impact on the modern world, by honoring the tradition of...
Why U.S.-led NATO & its complicit press framing Africa as being in bed with Russia
Western media outlets in many cases have wrongly accused Africa of siding with Russia in its war against Ukraine. No mention is ever made...
Jamaican protesters demand reparations and spurn royals during an official visit
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Protesters in Jamaica raised their fists as they donned T-shirts emblazoned with a pair of shackled Black wrists surrounded by the...
Distinguished UK academics call on universities worldwide to divest from Israel for Palestine
More than two dozen prominent academics from university student societies across the United Kingdom have called upon universities and educational institutions worldwide to stand...
Happy independence anniversary? French nuclear testing health hazards, dirty war deaths, torture, abuses and Algeria’s yet unresolved post-war issues
(GIN)—Tucked away in the treaty that signaled Algerian independence from France was a “gerboise bleue”—a “blue desert rat” and a code name for the...
Iraqi media: Ballistic missile attack targets U.S. base, Mossad training centers in Iraq’s Kurdistan region
Iraqi media and military sources say a missile attack has targeted a military base housing the American forces in the capital of the Iraqi...