by Paul Taylor * - European Policy Centre, OtherNews
Sooner or later, possibly as early as next week, France’s far-right National Rally (RN) is going to take power. That’s the main lesson of Sunday’s first round of snap parliamentary elections,...
by Anna Violante
On 6 June, on the sixth anniversary of the arbitrary arrest of 16 defenders of the rights of the casteless and marginalised, Amnesty International took to Twitter and Instagram to once again call on the Indian government...
by Ambra Visentin
(This interview was originally published in the Atlas of Wars on June 30, 2023)
Stella Assange recounts the long struggle to free her husband. A case of persecution by the US with the complicity of the UK. ‘If...
by Marc B. Sanganee * - Arbejderen/Globetrotter, OtherNews
Many Sahrawis see new hope in a new multipolar world order that is not dominated by the United States and the West. Life under occupation is a constant struggle. This is continually...
by Sofia Silei
On June 18, Thailand made an important historic step in the recognition of LGBTQ+ rights, becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to legalise same-sex marriage. The Thai Senate, under the government of Srettha Thavisin, passed a...
by Subir Bhaumik (from Calcutta, India)
India’s leading election watchdog The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and the National Election Watch have finally analysed the affidavits of 71 out of 72 ministers, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the findings...
by Conor Gallagher * - Naked Capitalism, OtherNews
One burning question following the European parliamentary elections that concluded on June 9: how did Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s ruling Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy - Fd’I) perform so well despite...
“Today marks a sad and sobering milestone - 1,000 days since the announcement banning girls in Afghanistan from attending secondary schools”, UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russell, reports. “A Thousand days out-of-school amounts to 3 billion learning hours lost -...
by Subir Bhaumik (in Calcutta and Pratyusha Mukherjee in Arunachal Pradesh)
Detailed tweets by the army circulated under its logo have challenged the Chinese renaming of seven places in Arunachal and efforts are on to counter each of the 30...
by Subir Bhaumik (from Calcutta, India)
Almost all poll rating agencies have predicted a victory for Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, only differing on the final tally. Some suggest the BJP-led NDA alliance may cross the 400 seat mark in the...
