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United Nations report says global cocaine trade thriving, with 25 million users around the world in 2023.

Border authorities in United Kingdom have seized cocaine with a street value of $132m from a ship arriving from Panama.

Border Force Maritime director Charlie Eastaugh said on Saturday that the massive haul of 2.4 tonnes of the drug seized at the London Gateway port near the capital was “one of the largest of its kind”.

UK’s Home Office confirmed that the haul, found under…

Pakistan’s climate minister says country facing ‘crisis of injustice’ as more deadly flooding and extreme weather events hit the country.

Pakistan’s climate change minister has slammed the “crisis of injustice” facing the country and a “lopsided allocation” of funding as heavy rains and the latest flash flooding cause more damage, destruction and loss of life.

Officials in Pakistan said at least 32 people have been killed in the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces since…

The leader of the party, John Steenhuisen, said the initiative was a ‘waste of time and money’.

South Africa’s Democratic Alliance (DA) party has withdrawn from a “national dialogue” initiative after the leader of the party referred to it as nothing more than a “waste of time and money”.

John Steenhuisen said on Saturday that corruption was plaguing the government, which he blamed on President Cyril Ramaphosa, but stopped short of leaving the coalition.

“Nothing will change in…

By Dr. M. Reza Behnam

The currents of imperialism, ethnonationalism and racism that pervaded Nazi Germany have found firm ground in present-day Israel.

We often have to heed the past to sort out the present. The urgency of “now” demands it. We need historical wisdom to survive.

The collective wisdom of the past flowed from a letter published on December 4, 1948 in the New…

On June 22, American warplanes crossed into Iranian airspace and dropped 14 massive bombs. The attack was not in response to a provocation; it came on the heels of illegal Israeli aggression that took the lives of 600 Iranians. This was a return to something familiar and well-practised: an empire bombing innocents across the orientalist abstraction called “the Middle East”. That night, US President Donald Trump, flanked by his vice president and two secretaries, told the world “Iran,…