‘No thanks’: White South Africans turn down Trump’s US immigration offer US president’s executive order provides resettlement for Afrikaners ‘who are victims of unjust racial discrimination’. Afrikaners are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers, who own the majority of the country’s farmland [Thando Hlophe/Reuters] Published On 9 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 United…
Trump says Musk to uncover billions in ‘fraud and abuse’ at US Pentagon SpaceX and Tesla boss Musk is presiding over a purge of US government jobs that critics call an ‘evisceration of democracy’. Donald Trump (left) has appointed Elon Musk (right) to investigate spending in the US federal workforce [File: Brandon Bell/Pool via Reuters]…
EXPLAINER Here’s how Israel is repeatedly violating the Lebanon ceasefire A November 27 ceasefire was supposed to end violent attacks, but Israel has continued sporadic strikes on Lebanon. Damaged buildings stand in Naqoura, near the Lebanese border with Israel [Ali Hankir/Reuters] By Justin SalhaniPublished On 9 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 Under the initial terms of the…
Libya finds two mass graves with bodies of nearly 50 migrants, refugees Rights groups and UN agencies have documented systematic abuse against migrants, refugees in Libya including torture, rape and extortion. Bodies of migrants and refugees were discovered in a farm in Kufra, southeastern Libya [Alwahat district Security Directorate/Handout via Reuters] Published On 9 Feb…
Saudi Arabia slams Netanyahu’s suggestion it should host Palestinian state The kingdom reiterated that ‘the Palestinian people have a right to their land’ and cannot be ‘expelled’. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters] Published On 9 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 Saudi Arabia has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s suggestion that the kingdom’s land…
At least eight Palestinians were taken to hospital upon their release from Israeli jails during the fifth prisoner swap.
Syria’s Mohammed Abazeed on the transitional government’s recovery plan.
True Crime Reports Slave Scammers | True Crime Reports Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in scamming farms across Southeast Asia. We all know a scamming story: Someone rings or texts you, trying to get your personal information or asking you to log in to your account. But what you might not know is…
Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown And the only way to resist it is grassroots mobilisation against the all-powerful broligarchy. Ulises Ali Mejias Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego Published On 9 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a person on January 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Maryland,…
‘Get that bad man.’ Newly-released bodycam video shows police on horseback in Jacksonville, Florida.