Category: 1. Palestine

In February, the airwaves in India were inundated with images of undocumented Indians shackled in chains on a military deportation flight from the United States. The shocking images made clear the devastating impact President Donald Trump’s draconian crackdown on “illegal immigration” would have on the lives of thousands of vulnerable Indian citizens who had risked everything to make their way to America.

Opposition lawmakers, including Indian National Congress party leader Rahul…

Nigeria: Spirituality and horseback parades

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, is also home to the continent’s largest number of Muslims.

The mainly Muslim northern regions are home to a range of ethnic groups, chief among them the Hausas and Fulanis. In the past decade, the north has become synonymous with instability and violence amid conflict with bandits and armed groups like Boko Haram.

But for those who live there, the region is a bastion of colourful cultural…

A forensic expert says the football legend’s seven doctors and nurses made deadly mistakes that ‘any doctor’ would notice.

One of two forensic experts who performed Diego Maradona’s autopsy has told a court in Buenos Aires that the Argentinian football legend suffered “agony” for at least 12 hours before he died.

The results of the autopsy were made public for the first time on Thursday amid the trial of seven doctors and nurses who treated him at his Buenos Aires home before his…

The military declares victory in Khartoum, retaking key positions after months of intense battles against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The Sudanese army has claimed to have cleared Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters from the capital Khartoum, nearly two years after losing the capital to the paramilitary group.

“Our forces today have … forcibly cleansed the last pockets of the remnants of the Daglo terrorist militia in Khartoum locality,” military spokesman Nabil Abdullah said…

A Columbia University activist with a green card, a Georgetown University academic with a student visa, a Brown University kidney transplant specialist with a work visa: They are among the people who, despite having legal permission to be in the US, have recently been detained by immigration authorities or denied entry to the US at airports.

President Donald Trump has said he supports legal immigration, and administration officials have given assurances that Trump’s campaign promise of…

US air strikes hit more than 40 locations across Yemen, including in Sanaa with at least seven people injured.

United States air strikes have hit more than 40 locations across Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen, including in the capital, Sanaa, according to local media affiliated with the rebel group.

Multiple residential homes and shops were damaged in the US attacks before dawn on Friday in the provinces of Saada, Marib, al-Jawf and Hodeidah, reported the Houthi-linked Al Masirah…