February 2025

A private moon mission has launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying the Athena lunar lander.

News Greece’s rail disaster due to chronic safety gaps, inquiry finds The first inquiry by a national authority also pointed to the possible presence of an ‘unknown fuel’. The collision between a freight train and a passenger train killed mostly students travelling from Athens to Thessaloniki [File: Vaggelis Kousioras/AP] Published On 27 Feb 202527 Feb…

A 21-year-old released Palestinian detainee recalls having his leg forcibly amputated.

The fate of the Gaza ceasefire is unclear after Hamas and Israel completed the last exchange of bodies and prisoners.

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Blasts, gunfire kill several at M23 rally in eastern DR Congo Rebel commander Corneille Nangaa says he is unharmed as video shows dead, wounded people in Bakavu. Hospital workers carry an injured man at Bukavu Provincial Hospital in Bukavu after two explosions rocked the city in the eastern DRC on February 27,…

Muslims in Gaza have been preparing what they can for the coming holy month of Ramadan.

Thailand deports 48 Uighurs to China despite human rights concerns UN High Commmissioner for Refugees says it “deeply regrets” move and denounces Bangkok’s violation of international law. UN rights experts had pleaded last month with the Thai government not to deport 48 Uighurs, who were part of a group of 300 who fled China and…

EXPLAINER Trump meets Starmer: Is the UK’s increase in defence spending enough? The British leader says foreign aid will suffer a 40 percent cut to bolster defence spending in light of a ‘new era’. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces an increase in defence spending at Downing Street on February 25, 2025, in London, England [Leon…

Hama: A rebellious Syrian town that can finally mourn the Assad massacre The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago. A child in Hama’s city centre, where the Baath party government killed tens of thousands of Syrians in the 1982 massacre,…

Opinions It’s regular old racism, not ‘Hinduphobia’ Trump’s return to power exposed an underbelly of anti-Indian racism in the MAGA-verse. Hindi nationalists who support him are working hard to conceal the truth. Somdeep Sen Associate Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University Published On 27 Feb 202527 Feb 2025 Kash Patel is sworn in…