The US military says it has destroyed a fuel terminal in Yemen during its latest strikes against the Houthis. It says the aim of the attack on the Red Sea port of Ras Isa was to restrict supplies and funds for the Iranian-backed movement. According to the Houthis, at least 33 people were killed during...
Donald Trump has attacked the head of the US central bank for not cutting interest rates, stating that Jerome Powell’s “termination cannot come fast enough!”. The US president took to social media to renew his criticism of Powell ahead of the third interest rate cut this year by European Central Bank (ECB). On Thursday, it...
When all you have is a hammer, everything becomes a nail. Trump hatred is the hammer, and liberals keep hitting their own heads with it in their zeal to pound MAGA and Trump into fleshy pancaked human beings. CNN just made the claim that political violence is basically a right-wing tactic–a fascinating claim that stands...
Former US President Joe Biden has used his first speech since leaving the White House to attack the work of his successor, Donald Trump. Speaking at a conference in Chicago, Biden said Trump has “done so much damage and so much destruction” in his first days in office. Read full article at source...
Several prisons in France have been hit by a wave of attacks overnight, the justice minister has said. Gérald Darmanin said prisons had faced “intimidation attempts” ranging from vehicle burning to automatic weapon fire. La Parisien reports that vehicles were set on fire in several prison car parks, while a prison in Toulon was targeted...
Labour MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq has accused the Bangladeshi authorities of a “politically motivated smear campaign” after they issued an arrest warrant against her. The country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has been investigating allegations Siddiq illegally received land as part of its wider probe of the regime of her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, who was...
The investigation into an attack on three prison officers at a high-security prison on Saturday remains ongoing, counter-terrorism police have said. Three officers were taken to hospital with “life-threatening injuries” after being attacked by Hashem Abedi, one of the men responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing, according to the Prison Officers’ Association (POA). The Prison...
More than 100 civilians, among them at least 20 children and a medical team working for a humanitarian charity, have been killed in a series of attacks beginning on Friday in Sudan’s western Darfur region, the UN has said. The assaults – on the city of el Fasher and two nearby camps housing people forced...
Three prison officers have been attacked by Hashem Abedi, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, a source has told the BBC. The officers sustained life-threatening injuries on Saturday including burns, scalds and stab wounds in the attack at HMP Frankland in County Durham, the Prison Officers’ Association said. Abedi threw hot cooking oil over...
A Pakistan-born Chicago businessman wanted in India for his role in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai city has been remanded in custody for 18 days. Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian citizen, landed in Delhi on Thursday. India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) confirmed his extradition had been successful. Indian authorities accuse 64-year-old Rana of aiding the...
From Liza’s Gender Commission, we present this article as a complement to the translation of the text “Trans Counteroffensive” by the Union Communiste Libertaire (UCL). The document produced by our companions provides a contextual analysis of the trans issue both internationally and nationally within the French context, outlines the organization’s theoretical stance on including trans...
EPA Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the police of holding the two men as “hostages” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced an investigation into possible links between his aides and Qatar as a “witch hunt”, after he gave testimony to police. An adviser and a former spokesman were arrested on Monday over alleged...
A mob of Israeli settlers has attacked Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal just three weeks after the documentary he co-directed on the violence of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, No Other Land, won an Oscar. According to his co-director Yuval Abraham and witnesses, per Haaretz, Ballal called an ambulance after settlers attacked him but was...
Israel attacked another hospital in Gaza on 23 March, just days after Israeli media outlet Haaretz said the apartheid state had “committed the largest child massacre in its history” in the occupied Palestinian territory. In recent days, Israel also flattened “Gaza’s only specialised cancer hospital”. Unmoved by these horrors, however, the BBC continues to normalise...
When violence broke out in Syria’s coastal area recently, including mass killings of civilians allegedly carried out as revenge for attacks on Syrian security forces, volunteer rescuers quickly came to help. They were part of the Syrian civil defence group known as the White Helmets, which had operated in rebel-held areas during the civil war....