Week in pictures: From forced displacement in Gaza to floods in DR Congo
A roundup of some of last week’s events. Source link
Tanzania’s main opposition Chadema party barred from upcoming elections | Politics News
A treason charge and the exclusion of the main opposition draw attention before October polls in Tanzania.Tanzania’s electoral commission has barred the main opposition party,…
Syria’s al-Sharaa extends deadline for investigation into coastal killings | Conflict News
President Ahmed al-Sharaa gives fact-finding committee a three-month extension to file report into Alawite killings.Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has extended the deadline for a…
Trump officials end ‘temporary protected status’ for Afghans, Cameroonians | Donald Trump News
The administration of President Donald Trump has moved to end legal protections for thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians legally living in the United States. On…
‘Extremely troubling’: Judge questions why US cannot locate deported man | Donald Trump News
A United States federal judge has called it “extremely troubling” that the administration of President Donald Trump failed to comply with her court order to…
US judge rules pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported | Courts News
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to deport Khalil over his participation in pro-Palestine university protests.A United States immigration judge has ruled that…
UN slams Myanmar’s ruling military for breaching truce amid quake recovery | Human Rights News
The Myanmar army has carried out over 120 attacks after the deadly March 28 earthquake, with more than half of them after the warring sides…
US Supreme Court orders return of migrant wrongly deported to El Salvador | Human Rights News
Lawyer for Salvadoran man Kilmar Abrego Garcia hails Supreme Court’s order, saying that ‘the rule of law prevailed’.The US Supreme Court has ordered the government to…
Unpacking Israel’s war on international humanitarian law | Israel-Palestine conflict News
On March 24, Israel struck a car in northern Gaza and killed Al Jazeera correspondent Hossam Shabat. The 23-year-old is one of countless civilians –…
Tunisia mass trial highlights opposition crackdown, weakening of judiciary | Human Rights News
For detractors of Tunisia’s President Kais Saied, the trial of more than 40 opposition figures is quite clearly a further nail in the coffin of…
Palestinian Ahmad Manasra released from Israeli prison after nine years | Human Rights News
Ahmad Manasra, 23, has been released after completing nine-and-a-half-year sentence, lawyer says.A Palestinian who was arrested at age 13 for allegedly taking part in a…
The US is in all-out kidnapping mode, and no one is safe | Donald Trump
Last week, the United States admitted it had wrongfully deported 29-year-old Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has now joined the burgeoning population of El…
US freezes funds for Cornell, Northwestern after pro-Palestinian protests | Israel-Palestine conflict News
The White House says Cornell University’s $1bn and Northwestern University’s $790m in federal funding have been blocked.The United States government has frozen more than $1bn…
Israel shuts down UNRWA-affiliated schools in occupied East Jerusalem | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Critics say hundreds of children are likely to be moved to schools teaching Israeli curriculum, which could ‘erase’ Palestinian identity.Israel has shut down six schools…
MSF finds malnourished children in Greek migrant camp, urges action | Migration News
Doctors Without Borders raises alarm over child malnutrition in Greece’s migrant facility.Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has reported the first cases of malnourished children in a…
Afghans leaving Pakistan amid mass deportations
Thousands of Afghans streamed across the Torkham border as Pakistan ramped up deportations after a March 31 deadline. Source link
Palestinian Bedouins say Israeli settlers terrorising them off their land | Israel-Palestine conflict News
When Israel began bombing Gaza on October 7, 2023, Fayez Atil sensed his community in the occupied West Bank would soon come under attack too.…
Palestinian-US teen killed by Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank | Occupied West Bank News
Palestinian officials identified the 14-year-old US citizen as Omar Mohammed Rabea.A Palestinian-American teenager has been shot and killed by an Israeli Jewish settler in the…
Mass protests in Morocco against Israel’s war in Gaza and US support | Donald Trump News
In one of the country’s largest demonstrations in months, protesters filled the streets of the capital Rabat.Tens of thousands of Moroccans have taken to the…
I am not a number, I am a real story from Gaza. Remember it | Israel-Palestine conflict News
I’ve been thinking about writing a will. I didn’t expect to feel death so close to me. I used to say death comes suddenly, we…