KARACHI, Pakistan/NEW DELHI, India – Rising temperatures- a direct result of climate change- are aggravating water, food, and biodiversity insecurity in Pakistan and India, which may worsen in the years to come, according to environmentalists based in the region. An intense heatwave is currently sweeping through the two nuclear-armed nei...
BERLIN – German police have arrested three senior members of the far-left group DHKP-C. The group’s alleged Germany chief Ozgul E., and two other leading figures, were arrested following a long investigation, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. Ozgul E., who is also in Turkiye’s list of most wanted terrorists, was arrested on ...
MOSCOW – In a retaliatory move, Russia has declared five Portuguese diplomats persona non grata. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it summoned Portuguese Ambassador in Moscow Madalena Fischer and expressed to her “a decisive protest” over “the provocative decision” to declare 10 Russian diplomats per...
ISTANBUL – A member of the Israeli parliament (Knesset) has announced her withdrawal from the ruling coalition government. Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi – an Arab lawmaker from the leftist Meretz Party – said that she will not “support a coalition that is disgracefully harassing the society I come from.” Zoabi cited the governme...
Kfeir, Lebanon – AFP: Firas Hamdan, activist-turned-lawmaker- is one of 13 independent politicians who emerged from a mass anti-government protest movement in 2019, and made it to parliament on a reformist platform in the recent elections. The 35-year-old lawyer and another independent- Elias Jarade- both won seats from allies of the pow...
After a Thursday vote by Oklahoma legislators, the state is poised to enact the country’s most restrictive abortion ban, which now just awaits an anticipated signature from Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt—a development widely denounced by defenders of reproductive freedom. Abortion is currently only legal in Oklahoma until about six weeks of...
When their astronomical wealth gains are taken into account, dozens of the top billionaires in the United States paid an average federal tax rate of just 4.8% from 2013 to 2018—a significantly higher rate than the nation’s average taxpayer. That’s according to a new analysis released Thursday by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF), a ...
While cheering U.S. House Democrats for passing a bill aimed at curbing Big Oil profiteering, progressive politicians and activists on Thursday pushed Congress to go even further and pass legislation imposing a windfall tax on fossil fuel corporations raking in record profits at the expense of consumers and the climate. House lawmakers passed ...
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney should resign as leader of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee—a re-election apparatus designed to protect party incumbents in the House—if he follows through with his plan to take on Rep. Mondaire Jones in New York’s newly redrawn 17th Congre...
The U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to approve $40 billion in the emergency military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine amid both Russia’s ongoing invasion and warnings from peace advocates that prolonging the war makes the world a more dangerous, not safer, place. The Senate voted 86-11 in favor of H.R. 7619, a supplemental a...
