Why can’t Nigeria stop the kidnapping of schoolchildren? | Boko Haram

Why can’t Nigeria stop the kidnapping of schoolchildren? | Boko Haram

About 300 schoolchildren are missing after the latest mass kidnapping in Nigeria. It is every parent’s nightmare: the kidnapping of their children. It happens all too often in Nigeria. In the second mass abduction within a week, gunmen kidnapped what some reports say are about 300 school children. Many viewers…

India blast their way past Bazball to seal Test series win against England | Cricket News

India blast their way past Bazball to seal Test series win against England | Cricket News

India win the fifth and final Test in three days to take the series against England 3-1 as Bazball is questioned again. India maintained their aura of invincibility at home after completing a 4-1 series triumph against England on Saturday. The ease of their final win may well subject the…

Varadkar concedes defeat in Ireland’s referendum on family, women’s roles | Women’s Rights News

Varadkar concedes defeat in Ireland’s referendum on family, women’s roles | Women’s Rights News

The Irish PM had called the referendum a chance to do away with ‘very old-fashioned, very sexist language about women’. A dual referendum in the Republic of Ireland on redefining family and women’s roles in the constitution has been defeated, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said. The government supported the proposed…

Asif Ali Zardari elected Pakistan’s president for second time | Elections News

Asif Ali Zardari elected Pakistan’s president for second time | Elections News

Pakistani lawmakers vote for return of widower of Benazir Bhutto after elections marred by rigging claims. Pakistan Peoples Party’s co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari has won a second term as Pakistan’s president, supported by the ruling coalition in a vote by parliament and regional assemblies. Zardari secured 411 votes, while his opponent,…

Israel hits landmark residential tower in Rafah as Gaza truce talks stall | Israel War on Gaza News

Israel hits landmark residential tower in Rafah as Gaza truce talks stall | Israel War on Gaza News

Israeli forces have struck one of the largest residential towers in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, residents said, stepping up pressure on the last area of the enclave it has not yet invaded and where more than a million displaced Palestinians are sheltering. The 12-floor Burj al-Masri building, located…

From Malcolm X to ‘reality rap’: Decoding hip-hop album art | Music

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 Furious Five. The genre’s heyday spanned the 1990s in an era when album artwork was a significant part of music discovery. Before streaming came to…

Sweden resumes aid to UN agency for Palestinians | Israel War on Gaza News

Sweden resumes aid to UN agency for Palestinians | Israel War on Gaza News

First payment of $20m to be disbursed after Sweden gets assurances of the UNRWA’s checks on spending and personnel. Sweden has said it is resuming aid to the cash-strapped United Nations agency for Palestinians with an initial disbursement of $20m after receiving assurances of extra checks on its spending and…

Israel’s ‘anti-Zionists’ brave police beatings, smears to demand end to war | Israel War on Gaza News

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 in Germany and she had been deeply moved by the pictures she saw of desperate people arriving there in small boats. That was where she…

Iran condemns UN experts’ report on protest crackdown as ‘false’, ‘biased’ | Human Rights News

Iran condemns UN experts’ report on protest crackdown as ‘false’, ‘biased’ | Human Rights News

Report by UN fact-finding mission says Iran’s brutal suppression of 2022 protests amounted to crimes against humanity. Iran has condemned a report by United Nations experts who concluded the Islamic republic’s violent crackdown in 2022 on peaceful protests and the specific targeting of women and girls were serious rights violations,…