Category: 1. Palestine

Former United States President Joe Biden has delivered his first major speech since leaving office, defending retirement aid that he says is threatened by President Donald Trump’s sweeping administrative reforms.

Speaking to disability advocates in Chicago, Biden said the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce, spearheaded by billionaire ally Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), were causing a “breathtaking” level of destruction.

“Fewer than 100…

Harare, Zimbabwe – On a sunny April afternoon, 41-year-old Tawanda Zvamaida sat with four friends at an outdoor bar. They were discussing recent antigovernment protests where police arrested about half of the 200 protesters.

On March 31, protesters gathered following a call for demonstrations by a former member of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s party.

Zvamaida lives in Chitungwiza, a town about 25km from the capital, Harare, and a stronghold for the opposition party, the…

Beirut, Lebanon – Pressure on Hezbollah to disarm is intensifying, spearheaded by the United States and backed by some Lebanese factions.

An Israeli war on Lebanon that killed much of the group’s top leadership last year – as well as hundreds of civilians, including at least 200 children – left the group reeling and was compounded by the fall of an ally, Bashar al-Assad’s regime in neighbouring Syria.

Hezbollah’s opponents are now taking advantage of these…

Akber Khan is seeing a brisk trade at his restaurant in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. Staff fan skewers of grilled meats and dole out rice and salad.

As an Afghan, Khan ought to be leaving as part of a nationwide crackdown on foreigners the Pakistani government says are living in the country illegally. But the only heat he feels is from the kitchen.

“I have been here for almost 50 years. I got married here, so did my children, and 10 of my family members are buried here….

Judges also order jailing of Nadine Heredia, Humala’s wife, in the same case but she flees to Brazil with her son.

A court in Peru has sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison for laundering $3m received from Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht and $200,000 from the government of then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Humala, 62, was taken into custody after the verdict was delivered on Tuesday and later jailed at a police station, but…