Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. At the NATO summit in the Hague, almost all European nations reached an agreement to raise military spending to 5% of each county’s GDP. This comes as President Trump said the U.S. would not...
EPA Retailer Co-op is to offer its members £10 off a minimum shop of £40 following disruption caused by a recent cyber attack. The grocery chain said it had not yet completely recovered from being targeted by hackers last month, which resulted in a significant amount of customer data being stolen. Although the offer appears...
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has appointed eight new people to the committee that issues official government recommendations on immunisations, days after removing all 17 previous members. In an announcement on X, Kennedy, a vaccine sceptic, said reconstituting the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip) was a “major step towards restoring public trust...
Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs Four and a half months after his inauguration, Donald Trump is exercising his authoritarian chops, targeting immigrants in the state he most despises — California. Making good on Trump’s nativist pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the...
India’s Coast Guard is continuing efforts to douse a fire on a Singapore-flagged cargo ship in the Arabian Sea near the coast of the southern state of Kerala. MV Wan Hai 503, which was heading to India’s Mumbai city from Sri Lanka’s Colombo, reported an internal container explosion on Monday, resulting in a major fire...
Police in Mexico have detained a man known by the alias of M-47, whom they suspect of ordering the murder of members of the band Grupo Fugitivo. The bodies of four musicians from the band and their manager were discovered on Thursday in Tamaulipas state, four days after the men had been reported missing. Their...
Turkish authorities have ordered the arrests of dozens of people facing corruption allegations, including opposition party members, in Istanbul and the city of Adana. The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention orders for 47 people and detained 30. Others detained included local municipal mayors and Istanbul officials. The operation is the fifth wave of...
Exeter Harbour Board is looking for three new members to join the committee. Exeter City Council is the Port Authority for the Exe Estuary, some non-tidal sections of the River Exe and the Exeter Ship Canal. This stretches from Blackaller Weir (in Bonhay Road, Exeter) to a safe water mark a mile off the Exmouth...
That could eventually include a new membership category, or shorter waiting times, for women to make a dent into the gender imbalance, although any such proposals would need the approval of members with the notion of ‘queue jumping’ likely to have some detractors. At the current rate, the MCC will achieve a 80-20% male-to-female ratio...
Five Venezuelan political figures holed up at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas to avoid arrest have been brought to the US after a “successful rescue” mission, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. “The US welcomes the successful rescue of all hostages held by the Maduro regime at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas,” Rubio wrote in...
The SF Standard published a great story last weekend about a business started more than 40 years ago in Berkeley, CA. Urban Ore is a warehouse space for the sale of salvaged, donated items which was started with motto “To End the Age of Waste.” Here’s a recent post on their Instagram page. Founder Daniel...
Will Grant BBC Mexico correspondent BBC Alberto Salagan “really felt lost” when he was deported from the US to Mexico When Alberto Salagan was deported from the US in January it was the first time he’d stepped foot in Mexico since he was a baby. Born in the coastal resort of Acapulco, his parents took...
Alex Moss BBC News, Yorkshire South Yorkshire Police Valentin Badica (from left), Ionica Badica and Cristian Damaschin were all jailed for their roles in the gang Members of a “dangerous” organised crime group have been sentenced for their part in a prostitution ring trafficking women into the UK from Romania. The “nationwide enterprise” saw 14...
The president of the largest communal body of Jews in the UK has responded to an open letter signed by some of its representatives criticising Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Phil Rosenberg, president of The Board of Deputies of British Jews, said he disagreed with the letter, which he said “lays blame squarely on the Israeli...
Dozens of members of the largest body representing Jews in the UK have condemned Israel’s government for the “heartbreaking war” in Gaza. In an open letter published in the Financial Times, 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews said they “cannot turn a blind eye or remain silent” at the “renewed loss...