New India bill to amend transgender rights sparks protests
The bill seeks to change how transgender people are legally recognised and their right to self-identify.
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‘We are being choked’: Philippines transport workers strike over fuel costs
It comes as a ship carrying barrels of Russian crude oil arrived in the Philippines earlier this week.
News24 | US putting pressure on Ukraine to give Russia all of Donbas – Volodymyr Zelensky
The US is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country’s eastern region of Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Reuters in an interview.
News24 | Israel PM Netanyahu pushing to pass budget in fight for his political survival
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is racing to pass a state budget and stave off early elections he would likely lose, with the war in Iran so far doing little to improve his standing in the polls.
UN calls for reparations to remedy the ‘historical wrongs’ of trafficking enslaved Africans
The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations.
News24 | Trump ‘is prepared to unleash hell’ on Iran unless it accepts peace deal
US President Donald Trump is ready to “unleash hell” if Iran does not accept a deal to end the nearly four-week Middle East war, the White House warned, but a defiant Tehran said it did not intend to negotiate.
State-of-the-art air defense systems have not been able to stop some Iranian missiles
The U.S. and Israel say they’ve depleted most of Iran’s missile arsenal, but its weapons — including controversial cluster munitions — are challenging even the most advanced air-defense systems.
Sweden’s top general says U.S. remains ‘really important ally’
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sweden’s chief of defense, Gen. Michael Claesson, about NATO, the wars in Ukraine and Iran, and Europe’s relationship with the United States.
News24 | Trump votes by mail despite blasting mail-in ballots as ‘cheating’ – and Democrats win
US President Donald Trump, who has blasted mail-in ballots as “cheating”, cast his vote by mail in a special election in Florida in which a Democrat won the district in the state legislature that includes the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Greetings from Turkey’s border with Iran, where Iranians let loose on the dance floor
Iranians escaping hardship and war are shaking it off to Persian, Arabic and Turkish tunes in this disco in eastern Turkey.
For the first time in more than 1,400 years, Church of England gets a woman leader
A new archbishop of Canterbury has been installed in a historic ceremony. Sarah Mullally is the 106th person to hold the job, and the first woman.
News24 | British police arrest two men over Jewish ambulances attack
British police said on Wednesday they had arrested two men over a London arson attack on four volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organisation.
‘There’s no safety anymore’: Palestinians warn of expanding settler violence
There has been a surge of attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages across the occupied West Bank since the start of the Iran war.
Thousands of U.S. troops deploy to Middle East. And, the latest on DHS funding talks
The U.S. is sending thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne to the Middle East. And, congressional Republicans present Democrats with a new deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
Ghana demands compensation for slavery in landmark UN vote
Nations will vote on whether to designate the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”.
Israel says plan to expand into Lebanon will provide ‘defensive buffer’
Israel signals major expansion into Lebanon, with plans to control swathes of southern Lebanon in a bid for a “defensive buffer.”
Ex-peace negotiator for Israel on country’s goals as it expands into Lebanon
What are Israel’s larger goals as it expands its offensive into Lebanon? NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Daniel Levy, a former peace negotiator for Israel.
U.S. drafts plan to end war with Iran as 2,000 paratroopers are ordered to deploy in the Middle East
Nearly a month into the war with Iran, the Trump administration is keeping its options open: it has drafted a 15-point plan to end the war with Iran and ordering thousands of paratroopers to deploy in the Middle East.
Islandwide blackouts bring life in Cuba to a near total halt
NPR’s A Martinez asks CNN’s Havana Bureau Chief Patrick Oppmann about Cuba’s power blackouts, which have brought the country to a near total halt.
US and China both believe the other is a declining power
China believes the U.S. is a declining power with expansionist ambitions. The U.S. thinks the same of China.
News24 | UK to release ex-Prince Andrew’s trade envoy documents amid Epstein scandal fallout
The UK government is reviewing records from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s tenure as trade envoy amid the Jeffrey Epstein scandal fallout.