Students demonstrated in Tehran and other Iranian cities on Saturday against an ongoing crackdown on dissent over the death last month of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Islamic…
Continue ReadingRMT general secretary Mick Lynch says that the union doesn’t want to inconvenience train passengers and that “we’d much rather have a settlement” but that it has no choice but…
Continue ReadingRussian President Vladimir Putin launched the process of annexing parts of Ukraine by saying he would sign laws to absorb them despite international condemnation and protect the newly incorporated regions…
Continue ReadingVladimir Putin, the Russian President, called for peace talks with Kyiv as Russia formally annexed four Ukrainian regions on Friday. Speaking to hundreds of Russia’s top politicians in the Kremlin’s…
Continue ReadingUK Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday defended her tax cutting policy after days of silence during which markets tanked and the Bank of England was forced into an emergency…
Continue ReadingAfter more than 20 years on the run, Félicien #Kabuga was arrested in May 2020 near Paris. Once rich and famous, the 87-year-old is accused of financing, training and encouraging…
Continue ReadingMen in the Russian-occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region are fleeing to avoid potential forced conscription into Moscow’s army. Their flight comes amid what the EU has called sham referendums, staged by Russia, that…
Continue ReadingIran is cracking down on the biggest demonstrations since 2019, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 after she was detained by morality police…
Continue ReadingIran has cracked down on the biggest demonstrations since 2019, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 after she was detained by morality police enforcing the…
Continue ReadingA state funeral has been held in Japan for the country’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe – who was assassinated in July. The killing of the 67-year-old shocked a country…
Continue ReadingThe death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s so-called "morality police" in September has enraged people across the country, leading to three days of protests, strikes and…
Continue ReadingIranians took to the streets of the capital on Monday to protest the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country’s conservative dress code. Negar…
Continue ReadingMahsa Amini was taken inside a police van and allegedly attacked by Iran’s Guardian Patrols, known also as morality police, and slipped into a coma shortly afterward. Iranian media reported…
Continue ReadingAs quickly as Baghdad erupted, Moqtada al-Sadr’s supporters went home. All it took was a word from the leader a demonstration of force by the populist Shiite cleric as protracted…
Continue ReadingDozens of people have been killed amid looting and rioting across South Africa sparked by protests against the jailing last week of former President Jacob Zuma. The military has been…
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