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London, United Kingdom – Mark Smith, a diplomat who quit his Foreign Office job over the UK’s refusal to stop selling arms to Israel, said civil servants who question the onslaught in Gaza are routinely silenced by their seniors.

“Thousands of conversations within the walls of the Foreign Office on the most controversial aspects of our arms sales policy will never be seen by the public [and] never be put to a court,” he said on Friday in London, at an unofficial inquiry probing…

As a young man, Seth Ferranti ran a drug-dealing operation distributing vast volumes of cannabis and LSD across college campuses in the United States.

It was the 1980s and US President Ronald Reagan had proclaimed that “marijuana – pot, grass, whatever you want to call it – is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States.”

“I didn’t believe them,” says Seth Ferranti, now a documentary filmmaker and director of Tortured Mind: The Reality of Post Incarceration…

Every 10 minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman or girl is killed- most often not by a stranger, but by someone she knows. The perpetrator is usually an intimate partner or a family member. Behind this stark statistic lies a devastating reality: Femicide is not a series of isolated tragedies, but a widespread, systemic crisis.

Presenter: Stefanie Dekker

Guests:

Sherele Moody – Femicide researcher and journalist

Cameron Kasambala –…

Seoul demands protection for nationals, investors as Trump’s immigration crackdown sees hundreds detained in ICE raid.

South Korea has complained after United States immigration officials detained hundreds of workers during a raid on a Hyundai-LG battery plant being built in the state of Georgia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul on Friday demanded the rights of its investors and citizens be respected following the raid the previous day, which forced…