By Michael Jansen* – Global Research, Othernews
Since Netanyahu’s legal jeopardy has plagued him for six and a half years, he has striven mightily to win elections and stay in the country’s top office to gain the immunity he believes...
by Anna Violante
Since coming to power last September, Meloni has travelled far and wide to build personal and political relationships with European institutions and world leaders who can help her in her main battle: preventing migrants from landing on...
by Alessandro De Pascale and Alice Pistolesi
The Jenin refugee camp has not seen such an incursion for twenty years, since the Second Intifada (2000-2005). On Monday 3 July, shortly after midnight, the Israeli army attacked first from the air...
by Marta Cavallaro
The decision came last Friday as the UN Security Council gathered to determine the fate of MINUSMA, its peacekeeping operation in Mali. Following the unanimous vote by the current 15 Security Council members, MINUSMA’s mandate is officially...
by Anna Violante
“The Afghan economy and its banking sector were crippled in February 2022 when US President, Joe Biden, issued an Executive Order to unilaterally seize US$7 billion of Afghanistan’s sovereign resources held in the US Federal Reserve....
by Alessandro de Pascale
On 26 June, the defence ministry's planning committee approved a plan by the right-wing Israeli Government of Benjamin Netanyahu to build 5,700 new settler homes in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, which is illegal under international...
by Miriam Rossi
It is the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which, on 26 June 1987, set out in its first article a definition of torture. “Any act by which severe pain...
by Anna Violante
On 3 May, clashes broke out between two different ethnic groups in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur. The Hindu Meiteis, who live in the fertile valley around the state capital Imphal, and the mainly Christian Kukis,...
by Raffaele Crocco
It will take more time to really understand the scale of what has happened in Russia in the last 48 hours. For now, we can try to reflect on the jarring details. We can reflect on the...
By Andrew Firmin*, Othernews
The violence keeps coming in Myanmar, under military rule since February 2021. The junta stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, with evidence of systematic use of killings, rape, torture and other gross human...