‘Fighting spirit’: How Myanmar’s armed resistance is taking new ground | Conflict News
Shan and Kayah States, Myanmar - The truck rocked violently as the driver attempted to manoeuvre the rough terrain of Shan State’s dirt roads. As…
‘A criminal economy’: How US arms fuel deadly gang violence in Haiti | Armed Groups News
For years, as armed groups plunged Haiti into deeper unrest, human rights advocates and civil society groups have issued a clear demand. Stop the flow…
Week in pictures: From deadly ISIL attack in Russia to drought in Vietnam
A roundup of some of the main events last week. Source link
‘Never-ending humiliation’: Recalling horrors in Libya’s migration centres | Migration
Mediterranean Sea – Malik* has been beaten, sold and humiliated along the way, but after being rescued in the middle of the Mediterranean, he hopes…
How a South African village turned an alien tree into superfood coffee | Food
Calvinia, South Africa – It’s 7:30am on a Monday and there’s already a queue of about 40 men, women and children against the wall of…
‘Imagine if just one dam is hit’: Russian-Ukrainian energy war heats up | Russia-Ukraine war News
Olena Rozumovska is at the end of her rope. Her two-bedroom apartment in an Soviet-era concrete building has no electricity or water supply, and the…
Goals not guns: How a girls football team in India’s Manipur beats violence | Football
Andro, India – Smart in her neon blue jacket and bright red sneakers, Hemarani slips out of the large thatched-roof mud hut and stands squinting…
‘Insane’: Xi’s call for ethnic Chinese to tell Beijing’s story stirs anger | Politics News
In late February, 59-year-old Phillip Chan Man Ping became the first person in Singapore to be officially designated a “politically significant person”. The city-state’s authorities…
‘Maximally pragmatic’: How Central Asia navigates Russia’s war on Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war News
Tashkent, Uzbekistan – A separatist warlord turned Russian lawmaker said he wasn’t “kidding around” when calling for Moscow to annex Uzbekistan and other Central Asian…
Alaa’s sad Mother’s Day after Israel’s war on Gaza killed her children | Israel War on Gaza
Rafah, Gaza – It is nearly impossible to describe the feelings of a mother in the Gaza Strip on Mother’s Day. A mother who has…
Deadly Russian attack rocks Odesa; Ukraine vows to defeat ‘lunatic’ Putin | Russia-Ukraine war News
Russian forces’ creeping momentum has continued for a fifth week after the fall of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine as the Russian command moved reservists from…
Megan Fox reveals she’s spent thousands on plastic surgery including 3 boob jobs in brutally honest interview
SHE has been crowned one of the sexiest women in the world countless times and banked millions from fashion and beauty deals over the past…
Palestinian paramedics fear Gaza dangers will spread to West Bank | Israel War on Gaza News
Hebron, occupied West Bank – In his 25 years as a paramedic, Jawdat al-Muhtaseb has worked during fraught times, from the second Intifada to the…
How migration transformed an Indigenous town in Panama’s Darien Gap | Migration
Bajo Chiquito, Panama – For many years, residents in the remote Indigenous community of Bajo Chiquito, Panama, lived a quiet life. No paved roads lead…
Migrant workers exploited, abused in Italy’s prized fine wine vineyards | Labour Rights
Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities. Piedmont, Italy – One of the first words that Sajo* learned in the Langhe,…
Ukraine debates mobilising more men to fight Russia after two years of war | Russia-Ukraine war News
In a fight taking place far from the front lines, Ukrainian lawmakers are debating a bill that could make or break their country’s fortunes in…
‘He’s lost my vote’: Many Irish Americans turn against Biden over Gaza war | Israel War on Gaza News
One evening in 2004, when John Francis Mulligan, a US-born Irish citizen, was in the West Bank, a stranger asked him to walk her to…
Maqali, a simple Syrian dish that saved a displaced family’s Ramadan iftar | Food
ِAl-Yaman Camp, Idlib, northwest Syria – Looking to make something tasty and thrifty, Bayan al-Jassem, 32, decided to reach for a staple of the Syrian…
At gunpoint, Ukrainians in occupied regions vote in Russia’s election | Russia-Ukraine war News
Since February 25, women with name tags and huge stacks of papers have been knocking on every door in the Russia-occupied parts of four Ukrainian…
Can Vietnam’s Robusta save coffee amid climate threat to Arabica beans? | Food
Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam – The white-walled room in a house on the outskirts of Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam’s coffee capital, is quiet. The only…