Prominent British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah is set to walk free after Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi issued a pardon covering the remainder of his six-year prison sentence, state media reported on Monday. Abd el-Fattah, a leading figure…
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that his administration is working to re-establish control over Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, the massive installation abandoned by American forces in 2021. Speaking alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House, Trump…
Austria’s government has formally agreed to introduce a headscarf ban for girls under fourteen in public and private schools, set to take effect in the autumn. Claudia Plakolm, Minister for Integration, Family and EU Affairs, announced the policy after a…
U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is prepared to declare a national emergency and federalize Washington, D.C., escalating a showdown with Mayor Muriel Bowser over cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The dispute centers on Bowser’s refusal…
Black students across the United States were targeted this week by a wave of coordinated racist death threats, triggering emergency lockdowns at least seven historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The threats came just one day after the killing of…
A 2023 update to the original 2021 report from Brown University’s Costs of War Project has revealed the staggering human and financial toll of the United States’ post-9/11 military campaigns, estimating at least 4.5 to 4.7 million deaths across multiple…
French police have arrested dozens of people after a protest movement known as “Block Everything” caused disruption across the country. The movement, which grew on social media during the summer, has drawn comparisons to the 2018 “Yellow Vest” demonstrations. While…
Democratic politicians have released a 238-page scrapbook compiled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday. The book, titled The First Fifty Years, was assembled in 2003 by Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently in jail for recruiting and trafficking teenage girls…
President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Friday that will authorize the Pentagon to begin using the historic name “Department of War,” reviving terminology abandoned more than seven decades ago. According to a White House fact sheet,…
United States President Donald Trump has accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of conspiring against Washington with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The accusation came as Xi hosted a major military parade in Beijing to…
