The emergence of a strong El Niño weather pattern this year in a world that is warming as a result of human-caused climate change could fuel “unprecedented” weather extremes, climate scientists have warned. Meteorologists expect El Niño – the natural climate phenomenon characterised by unusually warm sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean – to develop […]
Amid the US-Israel war with Iran, as the world breathlessly watches the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran is quietly increasing pressure on political prisoners. Advocates are sounding the alarm, warning of mass executions.
The US government is breaching international human rights standards by moving ahead with a series of new lithium mines across Nevada without the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of affected Indigenous Peoples, threatening their culture, health, water and environment, Amnesty International said in a new research briefing out today. As global demand for lithium […]
Fermina Stevens, 57, is a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone. She was born and raised in Elko, Nevada, USA. Nevada’s stunning landscape of mountain ranges and valleys has been home to Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years. As Executive Director of the Western Shoshone Defense Project, Fermina works to defend her ancestral […]
Bangkok’s decision to end MoU 44, a long-stalled maritime agreement with Cambodia, is a win for Thai nationalists. This comes as Cambodia struggles to garner international support amid controversy over scam centers.
US President Donald Trump is hoping for a foreign policy win at the upcoming summit with China’s Xi Jinping. The Iran war, trade deals and Taiwan are expected to be high on the agenda during Trump’s visit to Beijing.
Qatar is intensifying regional mediation efforts despite the Iran war bringing airstrikes and cutting off Doha’s access to global oil markets. But can Qatar leverage its ties to the US and Iran for its own benefit?
The European Commission has invited officials from Afghanitan’s Taliban to discuss the returns of certain migrants. It’s controversial on humanitarian grounds, and because Brussels doesn’t recognize Taliban authority.
More than 26.5 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing acute hunger, according to a new analysis from UN-backed food security experts published Tuesday.
Many women in eastern Chad are being forced to give birth in overcrowded clinics with limited medicine, minimal equipment and severe shortages of anesthesia, as a worsening humanitarian crisis overwhelms the country’s fragile healthcare system, the UN reproductive health agency, UNFPA, warned on Tuesday.
