Xenophobia Is Spreading Across South Africa - and 3,000 Malawians Are Sleeping in a Field in Durban
Guy is 25 years old, from Malawi, and he has been in South Africa for three years working as a carpenter. He asked to be...
World Affairs
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Twin Earthquakes Kill at Least 164 in Venezuela - USGS Warns Death Toll Could Reach Tens of Thousands
Heidi Romero was on the top floor of a shopping mall in Caracas when the ground began to move. "We went out through the ...
US Senate Votes 50-48 to Block Trump's Iran War Funding in Historic First - Four Republicans Break Ranks
Ten times in four months, Senate Democrats brought a war powers resolution to the floor to challenge President Trump's a...
China Sanctions 10 American Defence Companies in Retaliation for US Tech Blacklist
The relationship between the United States and China has become one of the defining paradoxes of contemporary geopolitic...
Europe's Heatwave Pushes Temperatures Above 40C - France Bans Outdoor Drinking as Health Alerts Spread
Europe's summers have been getting hotter for decades, but each year that the thermometers climb to new heights the ques...
Colombia Elects a Right-Wing Outsider as President in Narrow, Contested Vote
Colombia went to the polls on Sunday in one of the most polarised presidential elections in the country's recent history...
US and Iran Agree on a 60-Day Roadmap at Switzerland Talks - Iran to Allow IAEA Inspectors Back In
The room at Bürgenstock resort overlooks Lake Lucerne. Switzerland's peaks rise on all sides. Under any other circumsta...
Keir Starmer Resigns as UK Prime Minister, Paving the Way for Britain's Seventh Leader in a Decade
He had promised stability after chaos. He had promised competence after crisis. He had promised that he, unlike his pred...
Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth Pushes "NATO 3.0" Reboot, Tells Allies to Take the Lead on European Defence
The message delivered by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at NATO headquarters in Brussels this week was, in its broad ...
Pakistan's Period Tax Repeal Marks Rare Legal Win for Women's Health Advocates
For years, menstrual hygiene products in Pakistan carried a tax burden that advocates argued amounted to a discriminator...