by Jeffrey D. Sachs* - Common Dreams, OtherNews
The cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is filled with religious extremists who believe that Israel’s brutality in Gaza is at God’s command. According to the Book of Joshua in the...
by Anna Violante
On 29 December, South Africa submitted an 84-page document to the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of violating its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention in its crackdown in Gaza. The convention defines genocide as acts intended...
By Valentina Ochner
On 25 January, work began on the construction of a wall on the border with Belarus, which is to replace the existing barbed wire fence to stem the flow of migrants to Poland. Last October, the Polish...
by Higerta Gjergji
On 1 May 2024, the Parliament of Georgia passed the second reading of the bill on “foreign influence”, a controversial measure that sparked protests and criticism from the opposition, civil society and international opinion. The bill, which...
By Peter Beaumont and agencies – Originally published on our partner website Other-News
The head of the World Health Organization has returned to his suggestion that racism may be driving the lack of international interest in the ongoing war in...
By Raffaele Crocco.
Macabre accounting, as is that of every war. Ukraine's invasion by Putin's Russia is no different. Officially, 343 children have been killed since the beginning of what the Kremlin continues to call a "special Operation. In the...
by Marta Cavallaro
The death of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, has aroused mixed feelings on the African continent. Behind the mourning and condolences of the institutional leaders, what has emerged is the anger of the African peoples,...
by Emanuele Giordana
Three technicians in black and orange overalls from the Italian company Danieli receive a gift from a bespectacled gentleman in a blue shirt at a Burmese steel plant. But this is not an ordinary gentleman at all....
Hala used to work for ActionAid in Gaza. She had a rewarding job, a comfortable home, a husband, four children and a host of relatives living in her neighbourhood. Suddenly, when Israel began bombing the Strip, she, like many...
On Sunday 1 January 2023, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 77, was sworn in, picking up the baton from Jair Bolsonaro. Lula received the presidential sash, accompanied by his wife Rosangela, indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire and other community leaders....
