Syria avoids regional cold shoulder despite Captagon drug trade | Drugs News
In Iraq’s western Anbar province, authorities made a new drug bust at the end of February, seizing 80kg (176lb) of the narcotic Captagon. It is…
In a Rafah school called ‘Hope’, Gaza IDPs seek shelter from Israel’s bombs | Israel War on Gaza
Rafah, Gaza Strip – The rooms and corridors of Rafah’s Al-Amal Rehabilitation Society, a two-storey building in a sunny yard filled with trees, and a…
Analysis: Why are Iranian monarchists backing Israel over its Gaza war? | Israel War on Gaza
As millions of people took to the streets to denounce Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, demanding justice…
Israel’s ‘anti-Zionists’ brave police beatings, smears to demand end to war | Israel War on Gaza News
Tel Aviv/West Jerusalem – In 2015, Maya, a Jewish Israeli, travelled to Greece to help Syrian refugees. At the time, she was an exchange student…
From Malcolm X to ‘reality rap’: Decoding hip-hop album art | Music
The intersection of political commentary and hip-hop music is a tradition dating back decades, kicking off with 1982’s “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the…
Will a four-day work week solve Germany’s labour shortage? | Business and Economy
Germany, Europe’s industrial powerhouse, is struggling with a critical labour shortage. By some estimates, two million jobs across the economy are vacant, and half of…
Bollywood ‘takeover’: Pro-Modi films swamp Indian voters ahead of election | India Election 2024
Mumbai, India – A grimacing police official, staring into the camera, declares her intent to publicly shoot dead “leftists” while attacking “left-liberal, pseudo-intellectuals” as well…
Inside Holland’s violent narco wars where Moroccan mafia drug lords BEHEAD rivals and torture women to sell drugs to UK
DUTCH King of Cocaine Ridouan Taghi has a simple, blood-chilling rule for those who cross him: “If you talk, you die.” As the “undisputed leader”…
‘I yearn for the girl I used to be’: Gaza women tell their stories | Israel War on Gaza
Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – On International Women’s Day, the women of Gaza are continuing their daily struggle to care for their children and families,…
How has modern Russian culture been shaped by Putin’s war in Ukraine? | Russia-Ukraine war News
Before Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to mount a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Andrey Muravyev, better known as the…
Student, volunteer, shopowner: NW Syria’s Shaima defies limitations | Women
Azaz, Syria – With a quick, confident step and a wide smile, Shaima Hilal walks through the streets of Azaz in the northern countryside of…
AI meme wars hit India election campaign, testing social platforms | India Election 2024
Bengaluru, India – On February 20, India’s chief opposition party, the Indian National Congress (INC), uploaded a video parodying Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Instagram…
MH370 went missing 10 years ago. An Indonesian family hopes it can be found | Aviation News
Medan, Indonesia – Herlina Panjaitan has not changed her mobile phone number since her son, 25-year-old Firman Chandra Siregar, went missing 10 years ago. Siregar,…
What happens to the coins tossed into Rome’s Trevi Fountain? | In Pictures
As visitors’ coins splash into Rome’s majestic Trevi Fountain carrying wishes for love, good health or a return to the Eternal City, they provide practical…
This Hebron grocer won’t let Israeli shutdowns stop him | Israel War on Gaza
Hebron, occupied West Bank – Ishaq Qafisheh steers his wheelchair around the Ibrahimi Mosque, resting his trusty crutch on his shoulder as he rolls along.…
Budget will put more money in our pockets but it won’t change my vote… Sun readers react to Jeremy Hunt’s giveaways
CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt gave more help to workers in yesterday’s Budget with another 2p cut in National Insurance following the one announced in November. Together,…
Indigenous Bolivian women take up taekwondo against gender-based violence | Women
A violent attack by would-be robbers steered Bolivian Lidia Mayta towards the martial art of taekwondo. Three years later, she helps train other Indigenous women…
The Israelis who want a ceasefire in their country’s war on Gaza | Benjamin Netanyahu News
West Jerusalem – “I don’t believe in this war and I don’t believe that the goals of this war can be achieved,” said 39-year-old Avital…
‘No justification for Gaza carnage’: Nigeria Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar | Politics
Doha, Qatar — Israel must stop its war on Gaza, and the world needs to drop its “double standards” over the killings in the besieged…
Russia spins German military leak but chances of escalation slim: Analysis | Russia-Ukraine war News
Russian propagandists made sure the German military’s most embarrassing leak in years would look like an episode of the 1941-1945 Nazi invasion of the Soviet…