North Korea: Kim calls for relief campaign in rain-hit areas | Weather News
Kim orders military to kick off a relief campaign and provide supplies to residents of eastern South Hamgyong region. North…
Nicaragua’s upcoming election ‘has lost all credibility’, US says | Elections News
US condemns President Daniel Ortega’s crackdown on opposition leaders and potential opponents ahead of November 7 polls. The upcoming election…
At least 8 missing as historic California wildfire rages | Climate News
The Dixie Fire in northern California has now spread over 1,807 square kilometres and is just 21 percent contained. At…
Haiti: Many questions, few answers one month after Moise killing | Human Rights News
Haiti has asked the UN to launch an international investigation into President Jovenel Moise’s assassination on July 7. The assassination…
COVID health pass stirs new protests in France | Coronavirus pandemic News
Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across France for the fourth weekend in a row against…
Deadly fighting erupts between South Sudan party’s rival factions | South Sudan News
VP Riek Machar denies claims by rivals earlier this week that they had deposed him as the head of SPLA-IO…
Greece: Blaze sweeps through Athens suburbs as wildfires spread | Climate News
Flames swept through a residential town outside Athens overnight as wildfires burned across Greece for a fifth day on Saturday,…
Why vaccine inequality is leading to lopsided economic recovery
IMF to distribute more than $200bn to help emerging and developing countries through the pandemic. Source link
Israel attacks Hamas sites in Gaza in response to fire balloons | Gaza News
Palestinians say the balloons aim to pressure Israel to ease restrictions on the coastal enclave that were tightened in May.…
Nicaragua’s poll body disqualifies main opposition party | Politics News
Country’s electoral council says president and legal representative of opposition CXL holds dual US-Nicaraguan citizenship. Nicaragua’s electoral council has disqualified…
US prepares to mandate COVID jab for all active-duty military | Coronavirus pandemic News
The Biden administration is preparing to require all members of the United States military to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as…
‘This is deep history that still hasn’t been acknowledged’
In this week’s pick of some our favourite podcast discussions from 2020-2021, we revisit the documentary that tells the little…
Germany is returning some Benin Bronzes, but this is not enough
Commonly called the Benin Bronzes, these beautiful and technically remarkable artworks have come to symbolise the broader restitution debate. Why…
Gen Z teens get a crash course in pitfalls of US jobs market | Business and Economy News
Every summer in the United States, teens across the country pound the pavement in search of gainful employment. But this…
Internet fraud in popular literature
There have been groundbreaking hustler narratives from the US – like The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) written by Malcolm…
Claims of ‘frat boy’ culture tarnish Blizzard’s successful image | Business and Economy News
One summer day in 2018, employees of the video game maker Blizzard Entertainment opened their email to find a brusque…
Tigray rebels have taken the tourist town of Lalibela
Rebels from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray province have seized the UNESCO-listed city of Lalibela, in the next door Amhara region. Fighting…
The IMF has created $650 billion of free money – it could end the pandemic
The IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva described it as ‘a shot in the arm for the global economy at a…
Hungary’s Orban braces for US ‘interference’ in 2022 election | Hungary News
‘The international left will do everything that they can do, probably even more, to change the government’, Orban tells Fox…
Reformed laws are a good step, but there is still far to go
This article is published in partnership with Ethiopia Insight. The problem with Ethiopia’s justice system does not merely lie in…