Feed aggregator
AIPAC is growing desperate
The pro-Israel lobby is finding it harder and harder to confront a growing shift in American public opinion.
Categories: South Asia
Taiwanese boxer wins gold at Paris Olympics amid gender row
Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting has become the second women’s boxer embroiled in a gender dispute to win gold at the Olympic Games.
Categories: South Asia
Sifan Hassan puts on a fight to win marathon gold at Paris Olympics 2024
Once an Ethiopian asylum seeker, the Dutch distance running great won her third medal of the Paris Olympics.
Categories: South Asia
USA beat France in thrilling women’s basketball gold medal game at Olympics
France pushed defending champions USA until the last second, but lost the final at a packed Bercy Arena in Paris.
Categories: South Asia
Rwanda’s Kagame sworn in for fourth term after 99 percent election win
President Paul Kagame secures himself another five years in power, pledging to 'consolidate national unity'.
Categories: South Asia
Iranian president names moderate and female ministers as he unveils cabinet
Nominees, seemingly in line with President Masoud Pezeshkian's moderate outlook, must be approved by parliament.
Categories: South Asia
Landslide at Uganda rubbish dump kills at least 18 people
Search for survivors under way after landslide at Kampala landfill engulfs people, animals and homes.
Categories: South Asia
Sudan’s humanitarian crisis: One of the worst in recent history
How war between the army and paramilitary forces has led to famine, displacement and chaos in the North African nation.
Categories: South Asia
Israel has bombed eight schools in Gaza in just 10 days
Israel’s strike on a school in Gaza City was the eighth time that Israel has attacked a school in August alone.
Categories: South Asia
‘A dream’: How the Americas’ first free town took its independence back
A small town founded by runaway slaves is granted administrative autonomy
Categories: South Asia
Gaza school attack renews calls for US to end support for Israel
US Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris has condemned Israel’s attack on a school in Gaza.
Categories: South Asia
Israeli army orders Gaza ‘humanitarian zone’ evacuation
Tens of thousands of Palestinians flee as Israel warns of expanded military action in southern city of Khan Younis.
Categories: South Asia
Death toll rises after landslide at Uganda rubbish dump
Homes, people and livestock were engulfed by the landslide at a vast landfill site in the capital, Kampala.
Categories: South Asia
Israel shrugs off school-strike critics to issue new Gaza evacuation order
Palestinians left with nowhere to flee as Israel extends its attacks across the enclave.
Categories: South Asia
Algeria’s Imane Khelif files harassment case after gender row
Olympic boxing champion's lawyer files complaint against X, condemns 'speculations fuelled by malicious individuals'.
Categories: South Asia
Trump election campaign accuses Iran of hacking attack
Claim comes amid reports of foreign efforts to interfere in US presidential election.
Categories: South Asia
‘Leve Palestina’: The 1970s song that became an antiwar anthem in Sweden
George Totari’s famous song brought Palestinian resistance music to the West. Now it is undergoing a major revival.
Categories: South Asia
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 898
As the war enters its 898th day, these are the main developments.
Categories: South Asia
The Gaza Man: A Palestinian’s quest to make it to the Paris Olympics
Mohammed Hamada is a champion weightlifter. But after struggling to survive in Gaza, he faces an uphill task.
Categories: South Asia
Olympics: USA rack up relay golds; Barshim bows out with high jump bronze
USA win both 4x400m relay and men's 100m hurdles finals for their 14 athletics medal at Paris Olympics 2024.
Categories: South Asia
