(2024-03-29). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 175: ICJ orders Israel to stop famine in Gaza as Israel continues to raid hospitals. mondoweiss.net
The International Court of Justice imposed new provisional measures in South Africa's case against Israel for its genocide in Gaza, ordering Israel to ensure the entry of food and other supplies in order to stop the spreading famine.
(2024-03-29). Warning "famine is setting in," International Court of Justice orders "unhindered provision" of humanitarian aid to Gaza. wsws.org Given the undeniable fact that Israel has systematically blocked aid deliveries into Gaza, and massacred Palestinians trying to access food from the few shipments that have made it through, the Court's statement implicitly accuses Israel of committing genocidal actions.
(2024-03-29). Build the Party, Build the Clubs. cpusa.org
Editor's Note: Build the Party, Build the Clubs is one of three discussion documents submitted by the CPUSA in preparation for its 32nd National Convention. It was approved for submission by the party's National Board at its March 27th meeting. | As the 2024 election unfolds, the U.S. working class is increasingly taking the fight to the bosses. Last year, strike action was way up, as was involvement in electoral struggles all over the country. Labor is taking greater independent political initiative to set the national agenda. The AFL-CIO, for example, recently demanded a ceasefire in Gaza. | This independen…
(2024-03-29). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 175: ICJ orders Israel to stop famine in Gaza as Israel continues to raid hospitals. mondoweiss.net
(2024-03-29). People's movements to launch massive Land Day mobilizations in solidarity with Palestine. peoplesdispatch.org
On March 30, people's movements and working class parties around the world will mark Land Day as Palestinians continue to resist against land theft and genocide…
(2024-03-29). "Like Lying in a Coffin": UNICEF Spokesperson Warns of Devastating Toll on Gaza's Children. democracynow.org
As the death toll in Gaza tops 32,600, we speak with UNICEF spokesperson James Elder in Rafah near the Egyptian border, now home to some 1.5 million Palestinians seeking shelter from the fighting. He says Israel's continued obstruction of aid into the territory is a "man-made and preventable" crisis of hunger and acute malnutrition that could be ended if Israel just opened access to more aid trucks, especially in northern Gaza, where desperate people could be reached in as little as 10 minutes. "When I'm on the street, every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or…
(2024-03-29). Over 1.1 mn people in Gaza facing food insecurity: UN. muslimmirror.com Gaza : The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that more than 1.1 million people in the Gaza Strip are facing "an extreme level of food insecurity," as Israel prevents aid from entering the enclave. The statement, posted on Thursday on social media platform X, emphasised the need to …
(2024-03-29). Over 1.1 mn people in Gaza facing food insecurity: UN. muslimmirror.com Gaza : The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that more than 1.1 million people in the Gaza Strip are facing "an extreme level of food insecurity," as Israel prevents aid from entering the enclave. The statement, posted on Thursday on social media platform X, emphasised the need to …
(2024-03-29). New Zealand Labour Party leader feigns concern about inequality. wsws.org Workers and young people should not be taken in by the utterly hypocritical posturing of Labour leader Chris Hipkins, who leads a party of big business and imperialist war, which is responsible for the worsening social crisis.
(2024-03-29). UK child poverty at highest level in 30 years, with schools providing basic living necessities. wsws.org In September 2023, the Child Poverty Action Group reported that 4.2 million children nationwide were growing up in poverty—equivalent to nine children in an average classroom of 30.
(2024-03-29). Strategies for organizational unity and action. cpusa.org
The only remedy against a highly organized ruling class is a highly organized Communist Party. The fascist MAGA right is becoming Struggles within the Struggle | The Party Program states, "Grassroots Communist Party clubs are vital to bringing the Party's vision, strategy, and tactics into local work with masses of working people." As a member of a newer, smaller club, however, we are of…
(2024-03-29). Tajikistan Detains 9 Moscow Concert Attack Suspects — Reports. themoscowtimes.com Sources said that the Tajik intelligence services were working together with their Russian counterparts in an investigation.
(2024-03-29). ESG Funds Under Attack: Why Republicans Are Targeting Socially Responsible Investing. democracynow.org
Republicans are on a "crusade" against responsible investing, says Andrew Behar, CEO of the nonprofit group As You Sow that promotes corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy. His group was subpoenaed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee this week as Republicans probe whether investments that take into account environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns violate antitrust laws. Republicans have introduced bills in dozens of states across the U.S. to limit state bodies from working with banks and other financial firms that take things like climate change into consideration…
(2024-03-29). Uganda makes progress in preparing for rewilding endangered white rhinoceros. independent.co.ug
ARUA, Uganda | Xinhua | Conservationists in Uganda are working to transform the Ajai Wildlife Reserve in the northwestern Ugandan district of Madi-Okollo into a home for the endangered white rhinoceros. The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), a state conservation agency, is deploying both biological and manual efforts to restore the 166-square-kilometer reserve to its original …
(2024-03-29). The New York City Council No Longer Differentiates Between Illegal Aliens and US Citizens. thealtworld.com The New York City Council is begging the New York state Supreme Court to permit the council to ignore the New York state constitution that only permits citizens to vote. | The city council says that allowing illegal immigrants to vote can only strengthen democracy "by increasing civic engagement." | Think about this for a moment. For the NY City Council, the only difference between an American citizen and an illegal alien is that the alien is discriminated against by not being allowed to vote. | It was obvious from the beginning that this is what happens when a country allows immigrant-invaders to settle among th…
(2024-03-29). California fast food restaurants conduct mass layoffs in retaliation against state minimum wage increase. wsws.org The new legislation also creates a nine-member "Fast Food Council" with the authority to annually increase wages by the lower of the Consumer Price Index or 3.5 percent, guaranteeing that workers continue to receive cuts in real pay each year.
(2024-03-29). The Antiauthoritarians of the First International. counterpunch.org The International Workingmen's Association, popularly known as the First International, first met in September of 1864 at St. Martin's Hall in London. It began as a relatively modest gathering of workers, trade unionists, and socialists of various kinds and political inclinations a half-century before the fated October Revolution, before the twentieth century cemented a particular
(2024-03-29). The German Train Drivers Union wage settlement and the government's pro-war policy. wsws.org What GDL union leader Claus Weselsky grandiosely describes as a reduction in train drivers' working hours, with full wages maintained, is in fact the opposite: a reduction in real wages and an open-ended "working time corridor" leading to longer working hours and lower pay.
(2024-03-29). How to Start a Landscaping Business: Easy Guide! albawaba.com
Starting a landscaping business can be total fun! Especially if you love to work outside and create lovely spaces. If you happen to love nature, considering a landscaping business should be your goal. | The demand for landscaping services is always around the corner. You only need to get some useful tools and decide on rates for each service you provide. | By learning how to start a landscaping business, you can enjoy the freedom of your new full of talent and fun job as well as choosing your own clients and an ultimate comfortable working schedule. | How to Start a Landscaping Business: Steps: | 1. Outli…
(2024-03-29). Aumentan la pobreza urbana y la indigencia en Argentina. telesurtv.net El rango de edad más afectado por la pobreza es el de los niños de hasta 14 años donde alcanza el 58,4 por ciento.
(2024-03-29). Sri Lanka's debt trap and the vultures. cadtm.org
(2024-03-29). US official quits State Dept. over Israel Gaza war support. newarab.com
A US State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East resigned Wednesday in protest over Annelle Sheline, 38, left her position as a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor just a year into her role, with nearly half of that period overshadowed by Israel's
(2024-03-29). A Desperate West Steps Up Its Covert Actions As Delusional Thinking Persists. sonar21.com
The CIA is working overtime to push the lie that they warned the Russians about the 22 March terrorist attack and the Russians ignored that warning. Simply not true. As I noted in my previous article, the USG warning issued on March 7 only specified 48 hours. I have no idea when that "clock" started but let's assume it was Friday the 7th and ended on Sunday the 9th. Since the "predicted" action did not take place there are at least two possible explanations — 1) the intel was bogus or 2) the stepped up Russian security at the Crocus City Hall on March 8 thwarted the attack. | Unless the intel stipulat…
Russian schoolboys Islam Khalilov, 15, and Artyom Donskoy, 14, have been praised for saving scores of people from the When the attack began, the students were working as cloakroom attendants. Along with other employees, they directed people towards the exits and away from dead ends. | Khalilov filmed himself running towards the scene of the attack and directing people towards the exits, while Donskoy was seen escorting another group out of the burning building. | Islam recall…
"Sometimes I wake up and think my dreams have come true. But then I remember that I live in Gaza," sighs Yousef Almassri, a recent graduate of IT. | "Today Gaza is like a Before the war started, Yousef had his heart set on a career in IT. "I love the world of apps and working with clients around the world. In a place like Gaza, remote working is often the best optio…
Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement has conducted multiple operations against Israeli military outposts in the northern part of the 1948 occupied territories, expressing its unwavering support for Palestinians in Gaza amid a genocidal war.
A spokesman for the UN children's agency said on Tuesday that the situation in the war-torn Gaza is so bad that teens are increasingly expressing their desire to be quickly murdered in order to end the "nightmare".
In Gaza, millions of Palestinians are starving after five months of U.S.-backed attacks by Israel, while Israel continues to prevent the delivery of essential provisions. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on social media, "This man-made starvation under our watch is a stain on our collective humanity." The head of the World Health Organization says children in Gaza are already dying of malnutrition. "This is fundamentally a political crisis," says Alex de Waal, the author of Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine, who explains that even with a ceasefire and humanitarian aid,…
Over 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded on February 29, when Israeli snipers opened fire on people approaching a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed supplies of flour. The attack was quickly dubbed the flour massacre.
Sudan is on track to become the world's worst hunger crisis, according to the United Nations. For over a year, fighting between the Sudanese military and the rival Rapid Support Forces has disrupted the country, displacing over 8 million people who experience extreme hunger in the areas with the most intense fighting. The increasing demand comes as the U.N.'s appeal for $2.7 billion for Sudan is less than 5% funded. Funding is also drying up in Chad, where some 1.2 million Sudanese have taken refuge. "This is the largest sort of mass mortality crisis that we are facing in the world and the largest…
During a U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East and following the adoption of a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivered brief remarks. The ambassador said the United States supports the resolution but chose to abstain from the vote because they did not agree with everything in the resolution.
In her honest reflections, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan invites readers on a spiritual journey of self-accounting, helping us to think about how we see ourselves and want to be seen
"It was both empowering and sobering to be in the room alongside many of our Jewish brothers and sisters who are committed to upholding their Jewish values in support of a liberated Palestine" said Tahirah Moton (Ng?ti Maniapoto) from the Muslim youth community.
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The two sides also decided to organise meetings to exchange experiences…
Hari Welfare Association (HWA), a non-profit organisation working for the rights of peasants, has contended that the Sindh government's Kissan Card initiative is unlikely to benefit the farm workers who do not own land. | The association's president Akram Khaskheli said in a statement on Monday that the peasants who mostly offer their labour to the landlords on the basis of sharing crops will not be able to avail the card. | Through the card, which was one of the promises made during the election campaign by Pakistan Peoples Party's Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the farmers will receive subsidies, loans and…
ALBAWABA — Joby Aviation, the startup working on electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, has announced that its Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) aircrafts are set to launch an air taxi service in Dubai, UAE in late 2025, beating the US in the race.Joby's president of operations, Bonny Simi, has explained in an interview according to Bloomberg, that progress with partners in Dubai is "a bit more advanced in the approach that they're taking" compared to other regions, enabling them to launch in the emirate first.Joby's electric air taxi in the skies above New York City, piloted by James "Buddy" De…
Christine Lagarde is one of the strongest proponents of gender equality amongst the global elite. President of the European Central Bank, she is also a former International Monetary Fund Managing Director and French finance minister. The former lawyer was the first woman to chair global law firm Baker McKenzie, the first woman to serve as a finance minister from …
A Canadian student at Rania Amine began her hunger strike on February 19. She fainted on Saturday and is now "stable and under observation" at hospital, Middle East Eye reported. | Amine is one of a group of students hunger striking…
Gathering for Palestine/Irish solidarity. Philadelphia, March 18, 2024. Around 75 people came out for a Palestine/Ireland solidarity gathering at the Irish famine memorial in Philadelphia on March 18, organized by the Philadelphia Palestine Coalition and Philadelphia Irish Against Oppression. The very moving event, which included Irish music performed by Kevin . . . |
Congress passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill that will continue a ban on funding UNRWA until at least 2025. President Biden has said he will sign the bill immediately.
Palestinians in Gaza are starving, but the mainstream media won't tell you the simple truth that Israel is intentionally causing the famine.
By Robin Andersen / FAIR Over 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded on February 29, when Israeli snipers opened fire on people approaching a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed supplies of flour. The attack was quickly dubbed the flour massacre. Corporate media reporting was contentious and confused, mired in accusations and conflicting details …
A study by the Urban Institute (UI) in 2018, before the pandemic struck, found that nearly 40 per cent of non-elderly adults and their families struggled to afford at least one basic need for health care, housing, utilities or food in 2017.
Commonwealth states intend to jointly implement targeted programmes…
Faith is a central component in the lives of Palestinians. Gaza, now undergoing an Israeli genocide, is in greater need of its faith than ever before.
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a NEW resolution demanding a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The resolution, put forward by the 10 elected council members, is backed by Russia and China, who vetoed a U.S.-sponsored resolution Friday. The council is expected to vote on the resolution Monday morning.
President Biden and members of Congress have cynically reinterpreted "human shields" to flout international law.
In fact, for many children, there will be no mothers to celebrate anymore as well over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the beginning of the war. Moreover, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement on X on Thursday that the Israeli war on Gaza has been killing an average of 37 mothers daily since October 7.
Poverty in short had increased significantly between 2011-12 and 2017-18. After 2017-18 we have had a pandemic, and a lockdown induced by it, from which the economy is just recovering, though unemployment today is higher than before the pandemic.
As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, causing mass famine, injury and death, we get an update on the malnutrition and mental health crises in Gaza from Dr. Nahreen Ahmed, a pulmonary and critical care doctor and the medical director of the humanitarian aid group MedGlobal. She is recently back from a two-week volunteer trip to Gaza, where she says these crises are growing so rapidly "that even if aid was increased tomorrow, we would still be in a severe situation where the amount of food would not be enough in the immediate term." It is a "horrific experience for all involved,̶…
The economic realities in the U.S. do not generally support working-class artists and culture bearers—an issue that has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a March 2021 report titled "Solidarity Not Charity: Arts and Culture Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy," 63 percent of creatives in the U.S. were "fully unemployed" as of December 2020 and one-third
I lived in Berkeley in 1981. In fact, I'd been there for a few years except for a summer in Santa Cruz and a winter in San Diego. I spent a lot of the time I wasn't working some day job hanging out in People's Park and on Telegraph Avenue. I wasn't alone. In fact,
The widely reproduced perception that the majority of the working population is middle class, as even President Biden mentioned in his State of the Union address, is inaccurate and is based on a biased survey that asked people to define themselves either as upper, middle, or lower class. The term lower class is derogatory and insulting, and very few people choose to define themselves as lower class. The occupational groups used by the General Social Survey (GSS) give an idea of classes in the U.S.: The corporate class includes corporate owners and managers; the middle class is comprised of professionals and techn…
Iranian press review: Afghans claim organ theft from deceased relatives in Iran | Meanwhile, unions argue proposed minimum wage increase would push workers deeper into poverty, and the closure of the pro-reformist Aftab daily highlights pressure on critical media
After nearly a year of war, Sudan is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, the United Nations warned Wednesday, slamming the international community for its lack of action. | Fighting between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, has since April killed tens of thousands and led to acute food shortages and a looming risk of famine. | "By all measures – the sheer scale of humanitarian needs, the numbers of people displaced and facing hunger – Sudan is one of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent memory," said Edem Wosornu, director of oper…
"There's no food in Gaza, no water, and nothing to buy. We don't have money, we've spent our savings, we sold our belongings, and we have Bahaa Talab slumps in his chair, he's barely eaten since Ramadan began. "We were already fasting before Ramadan," the Al-Saraya resident sighed, "On the first day, I ate a bite of stale bread and a cup of tea for Suhoor. While Muslims around the world agonise over Iftar, we agonise over when the next bomb will explode." | Food shortages, malnutrition, and famine…
Canada will halt all arms shipments to Israel, The besieged Palestinian territory is facing a mounting humanitarian crisis, and months of war have pushed hundreds of thousands of Gazans to the brink of famine. | Canada, a key ally of the United States, which provides Israel with billions of dollars a year in military aid, had alre…
In recent years, a disturbing phenomenon has spread across the IDP (internally displaced persons) camps of This is provided to them by the Tiktok account holders, who have themselves
Gaza is teetering on the brink of famine. At least twenty-seven children, including many newborns, have perished due to the severe shortage of essential nourishment, particularly baby milk. Additionally, hundreds of adults and elderly individuals have lost their lives as a result of Israeli attacks while waiting for aid trucks at various drop-off locations throughout
We speak with British surgeon Dr. Nick Maynard, who recently led an emergency medical team at Gaza's Al-Aqsa Hospital, about Israel's ongoing attacks on healthcare infrastructure and the worsening humanitarian crisis in the besieged territory, where Israel's brutal assault has killed about 32,000 Palestinians since October 7. Maynard is part of a group of international doctors with experience in Gaza who met with officials at the United Nations and in Washington, D.C., this week to express alarm over civilian suffering. Medical workers in Gaza are "working under extremely challenging condi…
US senators urge Biden to begin working on a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine | A letter from over a dozen Democratic lawmakers pushed Biden to facilitate and recognise a 'non-militarised' Palestinian state | | US President Joe Biden shakes hands with Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware…
According to information published by Bloomberg on March 21, 2024, the Houthi group has assured China and Russia that their naval vessels will be granted safe passage through the strategically critical maritime zones of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
The organisers plan to continue working on the international promotion of the league until 2030…
ALBAWABA — French competition authorities have imposed a $271 million fine on Google for breaching intellectual property laws after it was found that the tech giant has trained its Bard AI model, later rebranded to Gemini, on articles from news agencies without prior notification.Google has reportedly agreed on the settlement and pledged not to contest as Reuters writes, saying "it is time to move on," adding "we want to focus on the larger goal of sustainable approaches to connecting people with quality content and on working constructively with French publishers," noting that the company has suggested a r…
Israel's annihilatory campaign in Gaza began almost six months ago. By now, nearly all of the 2.3 million people living in the besieged enclave
European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday that Israel is deliberately using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. | | Addressing the UN Security Council in New York, Borrell stated that the lack of aid entering the Palestinian enclave is "manmade". | | "This humanitarian crisis… is not a natural disaster, is not a flood, is not an earthquake, it is manmade," the EU diplomat said.
ALBAWABA – A video circulating on X (formerly Twitter) shocked internet users worldwide as a live stream showed an Indian wife hitting her husband's elderly father with his own steel crutch that he uses out of old age and necessity. The video in question was broadcast and streamed live through what seems an Indian live-stream service where the wife was seen hitting the elderly man till he fell and started crying, while her husband was working abroad in the Gulf area. Video: Indian wife hits Husband's elder father with steel crutch: While the wife targeted the elder man's legs, he tried to fight back but en…
*The following is from a speech given by CODEPINK co-director, Danaka Katovich, gave at Palestinian Feminist Collective's International Working Women's Day Vigil for Palestine on Friday March 8th* I was three years old when CODEPINK was founded, by women I still interact with on a daily basis. So I've been able to hear what sort
n a world shaped increasingly by emerging authoritarianism, it has become increasingly difficult to remember what a purposeful and substantive democracy looks like, or for that matter, what the idea of democracy might suggest. Democracy as an ideal, promise, and working practice is under assault, just as a number of far-right educational, market, military, and religious fundamentalisms are gaining ascendancy in American society.
Over 1,000 people marched in rain and sometimes gale force winds in recognition of Palestinian Martyrs Day and International Working Women's Day in Philadelphia on March 9. Starting with a rally at Rittenhouse Square, the crowd took to the streets, heading around City Hall and up North Broad to Spring . . . |
An aid ship, mostly funded by the The ship, which is part of a pilot project for the opening of a humanitarian sea corridor to
Ramadan has arrived, and northern Gaza has been overtaken by famine. "People fast without the promise of breaking it, and the world watches on without doing anything," Ghazi Oweis, a refugee from northern Gaza, tells Mondoweiss.
"There's an everyday struggle to find food. Her mum told me how they'd either eat very small portions, share food, or skip meals altogether," Jonathan Crickx, Head of Communications at UNICEF State of Palestine told The New Arab, referring to 13-year-old Nada who shelters with her mother and two sisters in a makeshift tent in Rafah. | Hunger and starvation now looms over Gaza. 10-year-old
Without critical action, nearly 230,000 Nearly 11 months of fighting between the forces of two rival generals has killed thousands and The bombing and destruction of fields and factories have plunged Sudan into "
Humberto Montes de Oca is the Secretary for Internal Relations of the Mexican Union of Electrical Workers (SME). He was originally a working-class art student who became active in the left-wing political movements of the period of Mexico's Dirty War (1970s to early 1980s). He joined the SME as a political act to become part
How many people in India are going hungry? Researchers working on the Global Hunger Index are currently tracking 125 nations across the world. Exactly 110 of those nations, those researchers reported last fall, are suffering less hunger than India. But India, by contrast, is doing quite well on the gluttony front. Few nations today can
Israeli detention centres have become worse than Guantanamo Bay prison as Palestinians in these prisons are suffering from "shameful forms" of torture, degrading treatment, and the deprivation of their most basic human rights, Euro-Med says. | Thousands of Palestinians have been rounded up from Gaza since the start of the war on 7 October, with hundreds kept in unknown locatio…
In the cold winter evenings, a little over a hundred individuals stand in line in Berlin's Frankfurter Allee. Holding a ticket number, they wait for the opening of a shelter that provides the homeless with dinner, showers, and a warm place to sleep until the next morning. | Hassan Ahmad, born to Lebanese parents in Africa in 1970, comes here often to escape the cold winter nights, which worsen his bronchial asthma. He struggled to remember how he made it to the shelter and could not quite clearly explain the issues with his asylum papers. | A little less than six kilometres west, in the area of Kottbusser Tor,…
UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri says Israel's intentional starvation of Gaza is unprecedented. "We've never seen a civilian population made to go hungry so completely and so quickly," he tells Mondoweiss. "Never in modern history."
The New Arab's live blog on Israel's war in Gaza has now ended, and will resume tomorrow at 0800 GMT. | A boat laden with food for Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza was "ready" to set sail from Cyprus, an NGO said Saturday, as Israel's war in the enclave ahead of Ramadan. | The sea route aims to counter aid access restrictions, which humanitarians and foreign governments have blamed on Israel, more than five months into the war which has left Gaza's 2.4 million people struggling to survive. | The United Nations has repeatedly warned of looming famine, particularly in the Palestinian territory's north where no o…
"The British role in Palestine is complicated…but I don't think it helps anyone to ignore history," Michael Winterbottom said during an It's an admirable position for a British filmmaker working in an industry more willing to produce films about Britain's heroic past during…
US President The move comes as warnings that Gaza is steps away from a famine grow louder and aid agencies report continuing difficulties in distributing supplies as fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas intensify.
Shtayyeh said that Palestinian women are "mourning their loved ones, being killed, displaced, hungry and deprived of the most basic human rights in full views and hearing of the world" in a glaring statement i…
Anthony Albanese's refusal to tackle structural disadvantage reveals his 'commitment to gender equality' is a farce, argues Isaac Nellist.
Things don't always work out the way you expect. I've gotten to mix with celebrities and travel to the other side of the world. But I'm also a single mother who's experienced health crises, homelessness, and food insecurity. What I've learned is we need public policies that look out for people no matter where they
After months of warnings over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel's bombardment, offensives and siege, Palestinian children are starting to die in the enclave. | Hunger is At least 20 people have died from malnutrition and dehydration at the north's Kamal Adwan and Shifa hospitals, according to the Health Ministry. Most of the dead are children, including ones as old as 15…