Video: Fears of war returning as Israel resumes Gaza airstrikes
A barrage of Israeli strikes have targeted the Gaza Strip as the ceasefire ends and the war on the enclave resumes.
Man charged in US Capitol attack announces run for Senate in Florida
Jake Lang, charged with attacking police during riot and pardoned by Trump, seeks to fill seat Marco Rubio’s old seat
A man accused of battling police with a baseball bat and shield during the January 6 riot at the US Capitol announced a run for the US Senate in Florida.
“WE ARE TAKING OVER THE CAPITOL AGAIN,” Jake Lang, a prominent January 6 defendant, wrote on X, announcing he is seeking the seat vacated by now secretary of state Marco Rubio in 2026.
Continue reading...UN humanitarian chief on worsening aid situation in Gaza
UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher told the UN Security Council he was 'distressed' by Israel's move to cut off Gaza aid
Poland and Baltic nations plan to withdraw from landmine convention – Reuters
- Poland and Baltic nations plan to withdraw from landmine convention Reuters
- Poland and Baltics to quit landmine treaty over Russia fears BBC.com
- Poland and Baltic states recommend leaving antipersonnel land mine treaty, citing threat from Russia ABC News
- Poland and Baltic states to dump landmine treaty citing Russian threat Al Jazeera English
- 4 nations bordering Russia to withdraw from land mine treaty The Hill
‘Once again, fear has gripped the people’
Gaza residents were woken by airstrikes hitting buildings as Israel shattered a two-month ceasefire.
Israel’s Ben-Gvir to rejoin Netanyahu’s government amid strikes on Gaza
The Israeli hardliner had resigned in January in protest of the Gaza ceasefire deal.
Statements of condemnation won’t stop the genocide in Gaza
As Israel resumes full-scale genocide in Gaza, all the international community can muster are weak objections.
Duterte’s arrest gives ‘a sense impunity ends’, says Nobel peace prize winner – The Guardian
- Duterte’s arrest gives ‘a sense impunity ends’, says Nobel peace prize winner The Guardian
- For Duterte, Signs of a Reckoning Years After He Ordered a Deadly Drug War The New York Times
- Philippine ex-President Duterte appears by video link at International Criminal Court hearing The Associated Press
- Situation in the Philippines: Rodrigo Roa Duterte in ICC custody the International Criminal Court
- On the Arrest of an Autocrat Columbia Journalism Review
Why has Israel bombed Gaza and what next for ceasefire deal?
The truce was already in trouble - now Israeli air strikes have dealt it a huge blow.
Leading Garifuna musician reportedly among 12 dead in Honduras air crash
Aurelio Martínez believed killed after plane crashed while taking off from Roatán island in Caribbean
At least 12 people, including a prominent member of the Garifuna music scene have died after a small plane crashed into the sea while taking off from a Caribbean island off Honduras, officials said.
The Lanhsa airlines plane departed at nightfall on Monday from Roatán, one of the Central American country’s main tourist destinations, heading for the port of La Ceiba, on the mainland.
Continue reading...Returning to Sudan
Al Jazeera's Hiba Morgan takes us through the experience of displaced Sudanese returning home.
Tanker owners praise ‘exceptionally brave crew’
Oil tanker Stena Immaculate and cargo ship Solong collided in the North Sea on 10 March.
Duterte’s arrest gives ‘a sense impunity ends’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa says rules-based order ‘can perhaps still exist’ but social media is being used to undermine democracy around the world
The arrest of Rodrigo Duterte is a welcome sign that the rules-based order continues to hold, the Nobel laureate Maria Ressa has said, even as the global order has been marred by the US “descending into hell” at the hands of the same forces that consumed the Philippines.
Ressa’s remarks came after Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, made his first appearance before the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague, accused of committing crimes against humanity during his brutal “war on drugs”.
Continue reading...Why is Israel bombing Gaza again?
Hundreds of people have been killed as Israel launched the most intense strikes on Gaza since the ceasefire began.
Ukraine presses for unconditional ceasefire as Trump, Putin hold talks
Ukraine foreign minister says it is time for Russia to show it ‘wants peace’ as US, Russian leaders hold talks.
‘Disgusting’ antisemitic tactics used to threaten exiled Hong Kong man in Adelaide, Jewish group says
Exclusive: Ted Hui and Melbourne resident Kevin Yam are both subjects of anonymous letters and pamphlets mailed from Chinese-controlled territories
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A prominent Jewish group has condemned a “disgusting” attempt to intimidate an exiled pro-democracy campaigner who fled to Adelaide from Hong Kong, with the federal opposition accusing a foreign actor of weaponising antisemitism.
Human Rights Watch said a separate attempt that encouraged people to inform on another dissident, Kevin Yam in Melbourne, was designed to make critics of the Hong Kong government feel “unsafe and hunted, no matter where they are in the world”.
Continue reading...‘Cataclysmic’: environmentalists fear effects of Trump cuts on Great Lakes
Advocates warn firings and funding freezes already risk poisoning drinking water and decimating fish population
Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s attacks on federal agencies and funding freezes will be “cataclysmic” for the environment of the sensitive Great Lakes region if not reversed, industry and environmental advocates in the region warn.
Initial actions taken since Trump returned to the White House in January – and put Musk in charge of slashing the federal government – already risk poisoning drinking water, decimating fish populations, and risking the jobs and health of tens of millions of people who rely on the lake system, they add.
Continue reading...Terrifying vid ‘shows mysterious new sonic weapon’ deployed against crowd of protesters – clearing streets in seconds – The US Sun
- Terrifying vid ‘shows mysterious new sonic weapon’ deployed against crowd of protesters – clearing streets in seconds The US Sun
- What's Fueling Protests In Georgia, Hungary, Romania, And Serbia? Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
- Protest Against Serbian Leader Draws Over 100,000 in Biggest Crowd Yet The New York Times
- Mass anti-corruption protests put strain on close European ally of Russia Fox News
- Netanyahu's Nightmare Is Playing Out on the Streets of Belgrade. Can It Happen in Israel? Haaretz
Serbia: Government denies using ‘sonic cannon’ at protests – BBC.com
- Serbia: Government denies using 'sonic cannon' at protests BBC.com
- Serbian officials deny illegal sonic weapon attack on peaceful protesters The Associated Press
- Netanyahu's Nightmare Is Playing Out on the Streets of Belgrade. Can It Happen in Israel? Haaretz
- Protest Against Serbian Leader Draws Over 100,000 in Biggest Crowd Yet The New York Times
- Mass anti-corruption protests put strain on close European ally of Russia Fox News
Aurangzeb: Curfew in Indian city after violence over Mughal emperor’s tomb – BBC.com
- Aurangzeb: Curfew in Indian city after violence over Mughal emperor's tomb BBC.com
- "Someone Who Lived 300 Years Ago...": Uddhav Thackeray On Aurangzeb Grave Row NDTV
- India orders curfew after violence over tomb of 17th-century Muslim ruler Reuters India
- Violence grips Nagpur amid Aurangzeb protests | Tension captured in pics Hindustan Times
- Nagpur violence: 'Chhaava' film reignited people's emotions, attacks seems 'premeditated,' says Devendra The Times of India