US President Donald Trump has vowed to ramp up expulsions of illegal migrants from the country Read Full Article at RT.com
The US Senate has voted in favor of Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense Read Full Article at RT.com
The US has reportedly suspended nearly all existing aid grants to Ukraine Read Full Article at RT.com
Hamas will release four female Israeli soldiers as part of a prisoner exchange Read Full Article at RT.com
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday expressed grave concerns over escalating violence in the Jenin area of the occupied West Bank, condemning the use of “unlawful lethal force” by Israeli security forces.
The UN independent expert on the rights of Indigenous Peoples on Thursday welcomed the decision by outgoing US President Joe Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, an Indigenous leader who has spent nearly 50 years in prison under controversial circumstances.
The UN has suspended all official movements by its teams into and out of Houthi-held areas of Yemen, after more UN staffers were detained on Thursday.
Trump had an “aggressive” conversation with the Danish PM over the fate of Greenland last week, Financial Times reports Read Full Article at RT.com
Jan 24 (IPS) -
CIVICUS speaks with Olivia Sohr about the challenges of disinformation and the consequences of the closure of Meta’s fact-checking programme in the USA. Olivia is the Director of Impact and New Initiatives at Chequeado, an Argentine civil society organisation working since 2010 to improve the quality of public debate through fact-checking, combating disinformation, promoting access to information and open data.
NEW YORK & NAIROBI, Jan 24 (IPS) - A report released today on the International Day of Education sounds alarm as the number of school-aged children in crisis worldwide requiring urgent support to access quality education reaches a staggering 234 million—an estimated increase of 35 million over the past three years fueled by intensifying armed conflict, forced displacements, more frequent and severe weather and climatic events, and other crises.