Russian victory is a key message at the ‘Patriotic Festival’ a few miles outside Moscow. Read full article at source...
Reuters 12 million people have been displaced by the conflict in Sudan There are “reasonable grounds” to believe war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed in western Sudan, said the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday. Targeted sexual violence against women and girls of specific ethnicities was...
Paul Adams Diplomatic correspondent, Kyiv Watch: The most intense strikes on Kyiv since June Everyone agrees: it’s getting worse. The people of Kyiv have, like the citizens of other Ukrainian cities, been through a lot. After three and a half years of fluctuating fortunes, they are tough and extremely resilient. But in recent months, they...
A rapidly spreading wildfire has reached the outer edge of Marseille, France’s second largest city. “The marine firefighter battalion is waging guerrilla warfare, hoses in hand,” said the city’s Mayor Benoît Payan, referring to Marseille’s fire and rescue service. The prefect of the Bouches-du-Rhône area, Georges-François Leclerc, urged local residents to remain indoors and said...
“Eighty years ago today, Clement Attlee led Labour to a landslide victory with a 146-seat majority in the 1945 General Election”, Kevan Nelson reminded the Communist Party Executive Committee last Saturday (5 July 2025). As well as founding the NHS and expanding the Welfare State, the post-war Labour government engaged in “unbridled military intervention...
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made his first public appearance since the start of Iran’s conflict with Israel, according to state media. State television footage showed him greeting worshippers at a mosque on Saturday during a ceremony a day before the Shia festival of Ashura. Khamenei’s last appearance was in a recorded address...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. International law experts are describing Israel’s Monday attack on a Gaza café as a potential war crime after an investigation in The Guardian revealed that the attack was carried out using a 500-lb bomb supplied by the U.S....
There is civil war taking place within the Sinaloa drug cartel and the body count is piling up. This story was published today. Twenty bodies, several of them decapitated, were found on a highway bridge in a part of Mexico where factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel are fighting each other, authorities said Monday. Four...
BBC “I don’t think God intended for people in their late 20s to live with their parents,” Hanya Aljamal says. She’s hanging out on the balcony of the tiny apartment where she lives with her mother, father and five grown-up siblings – because it’s the only place she can get any peace and quiet. Two...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Nearly all U.S. Senate Republicans and Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania on Friday evening blocked a resolution that reiterated Congress’ authority to declare war and would have ordered President Donald Trump to stop taking military action against...
Before Robby Starbuck became a problem for leftist companies, alerting consumers to stupid woke indoctrination policies, he directed music videos. He worked with some big names, like Snoop Dogg and Natalie Portman. In my new video, I remind him that his Snoop Dogg...
Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News, Toronto Getty Images Deal or no deal, what Wes Love wants is certainty. His Toronto-area business, Taurus Craco, imports machinery from overseas and distributes it across North America, mainly to the United States. But President Donald Trump’s shifting tariffs on Canadian products have left him, like many independent business owners,...
Sally Nabil BBC World Service Reporting fromQandil Mountains, Iraq MUSTAFA OZER/AFP via Getty Images) When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end its decades-long insurgency against Turkey, Leila hoped she might soon be reunited with her son. Three years ago, the former sandwich seller left home to...
The following is a statement written and endorsed by members of the Latin American Anarchist Coordination (CALA) and sibling organizations across the Americas, including Black Rose/Rosa Negra. Violence in the Middle East continues to grow exponentially. The war profiteers, the main partners of neoliberal capitalism, impose death on those below, while they become richer with...
1) When I set out to write this report, even the title gave me pause. „Fleeing“—it wasn’t a word I wanted to use. But it’s the truth. I fled. We fled. We escaped Tehran, running not because we had any connection to the Islamic Republic or to Israel, but simply to survive the bombs falling...