Anbarasan Ethirajan South Asia Regional Editor AFP via Getty Images Anti-India protests took place in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, on Friday As the continuing India-Pakistan crisis takes a dangerous turn, nations around the world are urging calm. The initial thinking was that after India launched air strikes, and with Pakistan claiming to have shot down several...
There was a time when Robert Mugabe stood as the towering figure of African liberation. Raised fists, Pan-Africanist banners, and chants of self-rule marked Zimbabwe’s emergence from white settler colonialism. Mugabe, like many of his generation, represented the victory of the oppressed against imperial domination. But history, with its ruthless clarity, would later mark him...
Eleanor Lawrie Social Affairs Reporter Getty Images Supported housing is in crisis, the open letter says (stock image) Supported housing, which helps vulnerable or disabled people live independently, is in crisis, an open letter signed by more than 170 organisations in the sector claims. Services at one in three providers in England had to shut...
Right-arm seamer Yusuf, 27, recently took 26 wickets in seven games in his domestic first-class competition for Lions in his best-ever season. With South Africa batter David Bedingham suffering a fractured toe against Warwickshire, Yusuf can play as a second overseas player alongside Australian Brendan Doggett. Ball, 34, who played four Test for England, has...
In February, Portland’s City Administrator announced that the city would need to slash jobs and maintenance projects in order to address a $93 million shortfall in the annual budget. “There aren’t really any good choices here,” said City Administrator Michael Jordan at a press briefing. “It’s about where you will find the money to balance...
Lately I’ve been wondering where the tipping point is: how long can pundits brandish phrases like “threat to democracy,” or debate whether the United States is in a “constitutional crisis,” before the perpetual asking of that question itself reveals the answer? If Donald Trump and his allies are whittling away at democracy’s very core, will...
The BBC spoke to voters in Sydney, Australia about the country’s housing crisis ahead of the federal election on 3 May. From feeling trapped in renting, to wanting more investment in public housing, residents share their experiences and what they’d like to see the government do to help. More on this story. Read full article...
Tarah Welsh Housing Reporter, BBC London BBC Patricia Brown says she can’t wait to have her own home Patricia has been living in a hotel for eight months. She says she’s had enough and just wants a permanent home. “I so want my own key, I am fed up with being here,” she says. Patricia...
Wigan Warriors coasted to victory over cash-strapped Salford Red Devils as they ran in 10 tries at the sun-kissed Brick Community Stadium. After successive narrow defeats by Hull FC in the Challenge Cup and at Leeds in Super League last Saturday night, last season’s record-breaking four-times trophy winners restored a bit of order. But they...
In a rare bit of good news for the climate crisis front, multiple countries are ramping up their renewable energy ambition ahead of 2035. Ramping up renewable ambitions This is according to a new report by 350.org, produced in collaboration with Zero Carbon Analytics. It found that 15 of the 19 countries that have submitted...
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement Tuesday criticizing attacks by President Trump and his allies on federal judges. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” he said. Roberts’s statement came after Trump called for the impeachment...
The HHS web page that once featured the former surgeon general’s advisory on gun violence now reads “Page Not Found.” The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has apparently removed a page on its website describing gun violence in the U.S. as a public health crisis. The department made that designation in June 2024,...
Economists are warning of a looming recession as the Trump administration faces a spiraling housing crisis that is currently leaving millions of low-wage workers, seniors and people with disabilities vulnerable to homelessness. Next to inflation, Americans rank the cost of housing as their top financial concern. The nation faces a shortage of nearly 7 million...
Nothing symbolises the re-emergence of capitalism’s general crisis more clearly than president-elect Donald Trump’s refusal to rule out the use of force to retake the Panama Canal, to annex Greenland from fellow NATO member Denmark, and his willingness to use ‘economic force’ to make Canada the USA’s 51st state, Alex Gordon told the Communist Party’s...
‘Capitalism’s all-round general crisis is back with a vengeance in Britain and many other developed countries’, Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffiths told our Party’s Political Committee on Wednesday evening (8 January 2025). ‘On every front from the US and Canada to Britain, France and Germany, ruling classes and governments are in turmoil. As...