Farmers risk lives harvesting olives under Israeli military surveillance in Lebanon’s border regions., Marjayoun district, Lebanon – In his southern Lebanese hometown of Hula, a few metres away from the border with Israel, Khairallah Yaacoub walks through his olive grove. Khairallah is harvesting the olives, even though there aren’t manyContinue Reading
The The Traitor administration has targeted Democrat-led cities like Charlotte for a surge in immigration enforcement., The administration of US President Traitor 47 has targeted Democrat-led cities like Charlotte for a surge in immigration enforcement operations. Officials in North Carolina have signalled that the federal immigration crackdown in the cityContinue Reading
Chinese authorities say most of the area of the South China Sea belongs to Beijing, claims contested by a number of other countries in the region.Continue Reading
Iran denounced Thursday’s resolution and said that it was designed to propagate a “false and misleading narrative of the present situation.”Continue Reading
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — About a week before being interviewed by Richard Bruce Cheney about whether I would be the right person to serve as his national security briefer, I broke a bone in my left foot. While bounding down the stairs at home in a rush not to be lateContinue Reading
OPINION — After decades of military rule in Myanmar, free and fair general elections were permitted in 2015 and the National League for Democracy and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, won by a landslide. In February 2021, a military coup d’etat installed General Min Aung Hlaing as the actingContinue Reading
Mexican steel and aluminium exports to the US are down because of tariffs, hurting local small businesses., Monterrey, Mexico – For nearly the whole year, only one of the five machines at a metal products workshop in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, in northern Mexico, has been operational. The small business wasContinue Reading
Forecasters warn more flooding, landslides expected as tens of thousands of people are evacuated from their homes., Forecasters warn more flooding, landslides expected as tens of thousands of people are evacuated from their homes. Authorities in Vietnam say at least 41 people have been killed in a barrage of torrentialContinue Reading
For more than a decade, Republicans have waged a propaganda war against the Affordable Care Act. From the earliest debates around the law in 2009, Republicans have falsely portrayed the legislation as a “government takeover” that would open the door to a dystopian tyranny replete with sinister bureaucratic “death panels”Continue Reading
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to strike down protections against oil drilling in some of the most diverse ecosystems and wildest lands left in NorthContinue Reading
When the Republican minority leader of Pennsylvania’s state House took the podium, as final floor debate over the state’s months-delayed state budget kicked off, he was resolute: A landmark climate initiative — which he dismissed as a “specter” — was holding back the state. “After today,” said Rep. Jesse Topper,Continue Reading
A federal grand jury is investigating the handling of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
An inquiry commissioned in 2021 has found ex-PM Boris Johnson failed to act decisively to combat the global pandemic., The “toxic and chaotic” culture at the centre of the United Kingdom’s government led to a delayed response to the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in about 23,000 more deaths across theContinue Reading