THE World Meteorological Organisation recently dropped a bombshell announcement that should have garnered news headlines in the major global and US media, but did not. New WMO research concludes that
ON MAY 16, 2022, Finland and Sweden decided to become members of NATO. Not only is this totally against the 1991 US/NATO promise to then Russian president Gorbachev, that ‘NATO
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SHIREEN Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera reporter with more than two decades of experience covering armed conflicts, knew the protocol. She and other reporters remained last Wednesday in the open,
Women’s rights activists march in Kabul against the new face-covering order, despite threats and risks of imprisonment from the Taliban, writes Deepa Parent ‘YOU are all loose women for protesting against
During 20 years of reporting on Israel and Palestine, I learnt first-hand that Israel’s version of events around the deaths of Palestinians or foreigners can never be trusted, writes Jonathan Cook
AS WE hydroplane toward the brink of nuclear armageddon while Bono and the Edge play U2 songs in Kiev, it’s probably worth taking a moment to highlight how this war
More residents of the ‘dark continent’ states are choosing to throw off the shackles of modern French neo-colonialism and the breakdown of the Mali defence agreement with Paris, in force
THE planet is wheezing, coughing and sputtering because of vicious attacks by worldwide droughts aided and abetted by global warming at only 1.2C above baseline. Some major metropolises are rationing
THE Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Saudi Arabia on April 28 on an official visit which is already called symbolic for Ankara and Riyadh. As reported by Turkish