Hunger hits displaced Palestinians and animals in Gaza zoo | Israel War on Gaza News
At a zoo in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, dozens of destitute Palestinians are sheltering between cages that hold starving monkeys, parrots and lions,…
Why temples are a top campaign stop in Taiwan’s election | Elections News
New Taipei City, Taiwan – At Lixing Fude temple, one of the largest in the densely-packed district of Zhonghe in New Taipei City, Democratic Progressive…
In 2024, Europe to hunt for new partners to offload asylum seekers | Migration
Eight years after the image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi lying facedown on a beach in Turkey shocked the world, pictures of asylum seekers’ lifeless bodies…
China targets friendly media, diplomats to ‘tell story of Xinjiang’ | Uighur News
Albanian-Canadian historian and journalist Olsi Jazexhi believed in early 2019 that reports about human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) of Western…
Bangladesh cricket star Shakib Al Hasan’s election run divides hometown | Elections
Dhaka, Bangladesh – In Magura, a sleepy town in southwest Bangladesh, about 168km (104 miles) from capital Dhaka, more than a thousand people are gathered…
Survivors of Israel’s siege of Beirut see history repeating itself in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News
West Beirut, Lebanon – As poets and writers flit in and out of Sleiman Bakhti’s bookshop and publishing house in Beirut’s Hamra neighbourhood, he greets…
More money, more problems: Debate on Black Tax in African football returns | Football
In November 2023, former Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi rekindled a long-running conversation about the burdens breadwinners face, especially multimillionaire footballers playing at the highest…
Sudan’s feared paramilitary leader signals ambition to rule the country | News
When Sudan’s civil war erupted in April between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group’s leader, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, went…
Photos: In Colombia, illegally felled timber repurposed to help bees | Climate
In northeast Colombia, police guard warehouses stacked high with confiscated timber with a noble new destiny: transformation into homes for bees beleaguered by pesticides and…
What’s really at stake in the US moves to target TikTok? | Social Media
Who owns the narrative? If United States lawmakers are to be believed, it is currently at risk of being hijacked by China, disseminated on de-facto…
Mexico’s weed ‘nuns’ taking the plant back from the narcos | Women
Beneath each full moon on the outskirts of a village in central Mexico, a group of women in nun habits circle a roaring fire, cleanse…
Kenyan farmers battle toxic legacy of locust plague three years on | Agriculture
Garissa, Kenya – In January 2020, one of the biggest locust plagues to hit the Horn of Africa in 70 years landed in Garissa, a…
‘Turbulence’ hits India-US ties after Sikh separatist murder plot | Politics News
New Delhi, India — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not known to give interviews to the media. In late December he made an exception…