Global response to America’s new leadership
The world watched the power transfer and swearing in of the 46th United States president, Joseph Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the first woman, Black and South Asian person to hold the post. Beyond the pomp and circumstance that accompanied the Jan. 20 inauguration, it was limited by the coronavirus pestilence and a heightened security lockdown of Washington, D.C.,...
The Nation of Islam: Building bridges across the global Black Diaspora
This year the Nation of Islam celebrated its annual Saviours’ Day Convention. It was the Nation’s first virtual convention. One of the major sessions at each annual convention is the International Workshop. According to the workshop’s facilitator, NOI International Representative Abdul Akbar Muhammad, the yearly workshop is designed to highlight the work of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and Nation...
Iran’s FM Zarif discusses latest regional developments with Turkmenistan officials, wraps up Central Asian tour
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with top Turkmen officials in Ashgabat, where they discussed the latest regional and bilateral developments. Mr. Zarif, concluding his Central Asian tour, met on April 8 with his Turkmen counterpart, Rasit Meredow, during which he praised Tehran-Ashgabat political, economic and cultural relations as positive. The Iranian foreign minister underlined the necessity of boosting the...
Marc Lamont Hill champions Palestinian rights following in footsteps of SNCC
Developments in East Jerusalem reveal it has been turned into a war zone. According to TRT World, “Israeli police have been unleashing violence on the neighborhood even targeting the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its compound with stun grenades, teargas, and rubber bullets.” Several news outlets have confirmed that police are supporting Jewish settlers who are determined in executing a wider, illegal...
Lebanese lawyers sue British firm over Beirut blast in 2020
Lebanon’s lawyers have sued a British chemical firm linked to the devastating explosion of 2020 at Beirut’s port at the High Court in London. The Beirut Bar Association and four others, including a survivor of the explosion and the families of two victims of the blast, filed the lawsuit against the UK-registered company, Savaro Ltd. They accused the firm of failing...
Cuba Warns U.S. against fanning protests in island country ahead of Nov. 15 rallies
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has warned the U.S. embassy in Havana against fomenting protests by dissidents on the Communist-run island, denouncing attempts made by Washington to subvert law and order ahead of mid-November rallies. Describing the upcoming demonstrations as “illegal,” Mr. Diaz-Canel accused the U.S. embassy of “playing an active role in efforts to subvert the internal order of our country,” marking...
Afghans are desperate and Taliban face economic ruin
https://youtu.be/QXKPwMdk6Fg KABUL, Afghanistan—The bitter cold of Afghanistan’s winter has small children huddled beneath blankets in makeshift camps. Sick babies in hospitals lie wrapped in their mothers’ all-enveloping burqas. Long lines at food distribution centers have become overwhelming as Afghanistan sinks deeper into desperate times. Since the chaotic Aug. 15 Taliban takeover of Kabul, an already war-devastated economy once kept alive by...
Displacement, humanitarian needs surging inside Afghanistan and across region
Conflict last year had forced more than 700,000 Afghans to leave their homes and added to the 5.5 million people already displaced over past years, the UN migration agency said on Feb 8. “The ongoing crisis in Afghanistan is intensifying humanitarian needs and increasing displacement risks both inside the country, as well as across borders to countries in the region,”...
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 up against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and divest for Palestine. The twenty-five academics, in an open letter, underscored that Palestine has been under Israeli occupation for decades, and that Jewish settlements built across the...
Haiti: Gang clashes in capital force hundreds to flee their homes
Clashes in Haiti between rival gangs in the capital, Port-au-Prince, have forced hundreds of people to flee their homes, the UN Deputy Spokesperson said on May 3. Speaking at the regular daily press briefing, Farhan Haq said that according to the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, in Haiti, unrest has been growing between gang members in the neighborhoods of the commune...