Editor’s Note: This interview was originally published November 2024 and has been updated ahead of the 2025 Academy Awards. Midway through the documentary “No Other Land,” journalist and activist Basel Adra recounts a 2009 visit to his village by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. In a navy suit and…
It’s time for Keir Starmer to make his move. Britain’s prime minister has spent months carefully crafting a chummy relationship with Donald Trump. He has showered the US president with flattery since even before his November election win; he has been, in Trump’s words, “very nice.” On Thursday, Starmer could…
President Donald Trump’s upending of US foreign policy has alarmed allies and nations in need. His administration has frozen foreign aid, threatened to take control of other countries’ sovereign territory, exited key international bodies and alienated Europe with an embrace of Russia. But the head-spinning set of moves, that together…
The legal team representing Mexico in a lawsuit against eight firearms manufacturers in the United States is preparing to argue part of their case before the US Supreme Court on March 4, according to Pablo Arrocha, legal consultant for the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “This case is going through…
An Israeli security official says four bodies have been transferred to the Red Cross by Hamas. Israel is now expected to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in the coming hours in exchange. Footage taken in the early hours of Thursday local time showed a group of Palestinian prisoners disembarking from…
Ioan Gliga said both Andrew and Tristan Tate left Romania on Thursday morning. The pair had previously been banned from leaving Romania pending a criminal investigation on accusations of forming an organized criminal group, human trafficking, trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering. They have denied…
Israel will not withdraw its forces from the Gaza-Egypt border, according to an Israel source. The military was supposed to begin withdrawing from that region in early March if the current ceasefire, which expires Saturday, were extended. “We will not allow Hamas murderers to roam again with trucks and rifles…
Editor’s Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence and abuse. Israel has systematically targeted Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza, arbitrarily detaining them without charge or access to legal counsel, and submitting them to torture and abuse, according to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI). Between…
Dozens of Uyghur men detained in Thailand after fleeing China may have been secretly deported to their home country, activists and rights groups said on Thursday, warning they could face torture and imprisonment on their return. The 48 men were arrested by Thai authorities 11 years ago after crossing the…
President Donald Trump wants to recover billions of dollars’ worth of equipment U.S. troops left in Afghanistan following their 2021 withdrawal from the country. ‘We left billions, tens of billions of dollars worth of equipment behind, brand new trucks,’ Trump said during his first Cabinet meeting Wednesday. ‘You see them…