US activists worry about ‘losing major asset’ TikTok as potential ban looms | Social Media

US activists worry about ‘losing major asset’ TikTok as potential ban looms | Social Media

Michael Mezzatesta is a climate educator based in Los Angeles, California. For the last two years, he’s used TikTok and Instagram as a means to spread the word about climate marches and real-life ways people can get involved and fight to take on climate change. In September 2023, he helped…

India’s final vote: In temple town Varanasi, Modi and sarees are winners | India Election 2024

India’s final vote: In temple town Varanasi, Modi and sarees are winners | India Election 2024

Varanasi, India – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a reputation for mounting spectacular road shows replete with a fawning audience showering petals of marigold flowers on him. It’s a pattern India has witnessed across multiple cities over the past many weeks, amid the largest election that the world has…

‘We were not allowed to serve food to our fathers when we had our period’ | Women’s Rights

‘We were not allowed to serve food to our fathers when we had our period’ | Women’s Rights

“When I was young, a girl who got her first period was scared and frightened,” Burkinabe grandmother Marie, 73, tells her daughter, Aminata, and teenage granddaughter, Nassiratou, 18 – who calls her grandma “Yaaba”. The three women sit together beneath a tree in their village in west-central Burkina Faso, engaged…

‘Audacious, outrageous’: Gaza protesters slam Greek deportation order | Protests News

‘Audacious, outrageous’: Gaza protesters slam Greek deportation order | Protests News

Nine people from the United Kingdom and the European Union member states are facing deportation from Greece days after they took part in a protest in solidarity with Palestine at a Greek university. A total of 28 people were arrested by Greek police during the protest and encampment at the…

Indian diaspora divided as Modi’s office lobbies US fans to influence vote | India Election 2024

Indian diaspora divided as Modi’s office lobbies US fans to influence vote | India Election 2024

Washington, DC – The WhatsApp message arrives with a colourful infographic highlighting numerous achievements from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade-long rule. It includes a succinct comparison of statistics on the economy, education, healthcare, welfare schemes and infrastructure development between the period under Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the previous government…

Punched, choked, kicked: German police crack down on student protests | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Punched, choked, kicked: German police crack down on student protests | Israel-Palestine conflict News

“We are witnessing a great endangerment of academic freedom – and this has started since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza,” says Cecilia, an undergraduate student at Berlin’s Free University. After her university published what she saw as a one-sided statement of support for Israel following the Hamas attacks…

Medics in Gaza risking their lives to save people hurt by Israel’s war | Gaza

Medics in Gaza risking their lives to save people hurt by Israel’s war | Gaza

Izedine Lulu was besieged in Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital when he heard that Israel had bombed his family home in November. His brothers, sisters and father had all been killed. The 21-year-old medic could not go to find their bodies because al-Shifa was surrounded by Israeli tanks and snipers. He could…

Ivorian cocoa farmers ‘barely survive’ while chocolate company profits soar | Agriculture

Ivorian cocoa farmers ‘barely survive’ while chocolate company profits soar | Agriculture

Aboude, Ivory Coast – It’s 11am in Aboude, a village in southern Ivory Coast, and Magne Akoua has already been working on his cacao farm for several hours. The 65-year-old moves slowly and methodically from one tree to the next, scrupulously shunning the scorching sun. “We have to check on…

How do you find a bride? The new struggle in crisis-hit rural India | India Election 2024 News

How do you find a bride? The new struggle in crisis-hit rural India | India Election 2024 News

Yavatmal/Mumbai, India — On a warm Sunday afternoon in April, a group of farmers sits on a roadside bench at the intersection of the highway with their village, Raveri, in the Yavatmal district of western India’s Maharashtra state. One of them, Bhushan Unde, 31, has his phone out and is looking…

UK ruling on Assange extradition ‘resets the game’. What happens next? | Julian Assange News

UK ruling on Assange extradition ‘resets the game’. What happens next? | Julian Assange News

Legal experts are voicing hope and caution after London’s High Court ruling this week allowed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appeal his extradition to the United States. “The judges have assessed that the issues raised by the Assange legal team had sufficient legal merit that they were suitable for determination…