Why is Trump pulling the plug on USAID?

Video Duration 27 minutes 40 seconds play-arrow 27:40 Inside Story Why is Trump pulling the plug on USAID? Thousands of employees have been placed on leave and aid recipients in more than 130 countries have been left in limbo. President Donald Trump’s administration is dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID). For decades, it…

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‘Denying our truth’: Fighting residential school denialism in Canada

While Indigenous communities have long known about deaths at residential schools and the existence of unmarked burial sites, for much of Canada’s history, the residential school system was left unscrutinised. “Canada normalized the disappearances, deaths and unmarked burials of Indigenous children for well over a century on a scale that is indefensible,” said Murray, the…

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Why has Trump hit the world criminal court with sanctions?

EXPLAINER Why has Trump hit the world criminal court with sanctions? US president orders asset freezes and travel bans against International Criminal Court officials in protest against arrest warrant for Israel’s Netanyahu. The International Criminal Court is based in The Hague, Netherlands [File: Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters] By Alexander Kozul-WrightPublished On 7 Feb 20257 Feb 2025…

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“Dehumanisation of Palestinians is so normalised,” Poet Mohammed El Kurd

UpFront “Dehumanisation of Palestinians is so normalised,” Poet Mohammed El Kurd Marc Lamont Hill discusses the dehumanisation of Palestinians with author and poet Mohammed El-Kurd. “Death is so quotidian that journalists report it as though they’re reporting the weather” wrote Palestinian poet and author Mohammed El-Kurd amid Israel’s war on Gaza. And with a ceasefire…

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