Students in India express solidarity with Cuba, denounce U.S. imperialist blockade
by Abdul Rahman - The Peoples Dispatch The Students Federation of India (SFI) organized a Cuba solidarity meeting in India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in...
Growing pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say
LAHORE, Pakistan—Worsening air pollution sickened an estimated 1.8 million people in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province in the past month, health officials said Nov. 12,...
‘Big red flag’: Gates Foundation gets diplomatic immunity in Kenya
Under the new status, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its employees are exempt from legal action for acts performed in Kenya as...
Africa historically takes a back seat in U.S. foreign policy
The U.S. just ended its November 5 presidential race with a win for Donald Trump. This matters for just about every region on earth....
Erasing ‘any sign of life,’ Israeli demolition teams razing entire villages in Lebanon
by Brett Wilkins, CommonDreams.org As the death toll from Israel’s 13-month assault on Lebanon passed 3,000, satellite imagery analyses published by multiple media outlets in recent...
Presidents of South Sudan and Kenya push for a resolution in stalled peace talks
JUBA, South Sudan—South Sudan peace talks, previously held in neighboring Kenya, will resume under a directive from President Salva Kiir and his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto, who...
Ex-detainee held at Guantánamo Bay for two decades dies in Pakistan
Former Guantánamodetainee, Abdul Rahim Rabbani, who spent about two decades at the U.S.-controlled Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba without charge or trial, has passed...
Israel’s Netanyahu dismisses military affairs minister Gallant
Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed the Israeli minister for military affairs Yoav Gallant amid the regime’s failure in the face of the resistance in Gaza...
Migrant smuggler allegedly forced his passengers overboard
ATHENS, Greece—Greek authorities have recovered the bodies of four people from the sea just off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Rhodes,...
General Assembly renews long-standing call for end to U.S. embargo against Cuba
The UN General Assembly has once again urged the United States to end its economic, commercial, and financial embargo on Cuba, renewing a demand...