Māori mobilize to protect treaty rights
by Arama Rata Māori activists began a national mobilization on November 10 to oppose proposed legislation threatening Māori Treaty rights. The mobilization takes the form of a hīkoi, a protest...
Iran, Russia, Turkey condemn Israeli atrocities in West Asia
Iran, Russia, and Turkey have condemned the Israeli regime’s continuous atrocities in the West Asia region, calling for increased international efforts to secure an...
Dutch police attack pro-Palestine protesters in Amsterdam, arrest activists
Pro-Palestine demonstrators have rallied in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam despite selective arrests and a heavy-handed crackdown by police, days after the violence between...
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...