Ukrainian drone strikes set an oil export terminal ablaze in St Petersburg on Sunday as Kyiv launched one of its largest aerial bombardments of Russia to date, with Moscow reporting that its
“The proper way to respond” to white supremacist fascism “is to have a backbone,” says Tariq Khan, a historian and lecturer at Yale University, in an interview on September 17, a week after the assassination
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Artificial intelligence is no longer just drawing cats or writing emails—it’s now writing genomes. A team of researchers from Stanford University and the Arc Institute in Palo Alto, California, say they have
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CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, calls on the government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to halt the continued harassment of activists and journalists and crackdown on protests. One year since he
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At the grave of Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (1971–2016) in La Esperanza, Honduras, where she was born and died, I watched a yellow butterfly flutter around a bougainvillea bush. It flew as
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A Sri Lankan state-owned bank has reportedly refused to open an account for a Russian diplomat posted in Colombo, drawing attention to possible implications for Sri Lanka’s
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A damning new report accuses the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) of allowing senior Hamas operatives to infiltrate and control its education system, raising alarming questions about the agency’s neutrality
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Thirty-two years after the Oslo Accords raised hopes of a Palestinian state, the dream of two independent nations existing side by side appears more distant than ever. In the West Bank village
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Walt Disney Co.’s ABC network has suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely following mounting backlash over the late-night host’s comments regarding the killing of Republican activist Charlie Kirk. The suspension, announced Wednesday, comes
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Brazil is taking an ambitious two-pronged approach to combat dengue, a mosquito-borne virus that kills thousands in South America each year and is spreading rapidly across the region. Health authorities are deploying
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This month marks the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, widely recognized as the birth of the modern railway. Opened on 27 September 1825 in northeast England, the railway set
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Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI Director James B. Comey and a former federal prosecutor, has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice, alleging that her dismissal in July 2025
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On September 16, the people of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger will mark the second anniversary of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), established by the Liptako-Gourma Charter in 2023. This is
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South Korea’s labour minister sharply criticized the treatment of hundreds of Korean workers detained by U.S. immigration authorities last week, saying that “not even prisoners of war” would be treated as harshly
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I vividly remember reading Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai’s classic Malayalam novel Randidangazhi in high school. Set in 1940s Kuttanad, Alappuzha—Kerala’s rice bowl—it depicts the brutal socio-economic conditions of Dalit agricultural workers and impoverished tenant peasants,
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Globally, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to “business self-regulation with the aim of being socially accountable.” From a broader perspective, this definition includes improving working conditions, reducing carbon footprints, participating in Fairtrade,
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