[ad_1] May 3, 2024 The question remains: Could some version of it be salvaged in 2025? Ad Policy Iranian demonstrators burn a picture of US President Donald Trump during a protest in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran on May 9, 2018, in response to his decision to pull out of the Iran […]
[ad_1] An airport security officer is trekking parts of the Great Wall of China to help him recover after a failed mission in South America. East Midlands Airport’s Michael McCorkindale is embarking on the challenge after a mission to the summit of Aconcagua was abandoned in March. He is walking along five different sections of […]
[ad_1] NYPD officers in riot gear march onto Columbia University campus, where pro-Palestinian students were barricaded inside a building and set up an encampment, on April 30, 2024. (Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty Images) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for The Nation’s […]
[ad_1] “Any ground operation would mean more suffering and death” for the 1.2 million displaced Palestinians sheltering in and around the Strip’s southernmost city, OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke told journalists in Geneva. Echoing those concerns, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said that “Band-Aid” contingency plans have been made in case a full-scale military incursion […]
[ad_1] Lingneifel Vaiphei collapsed to the ground in agony after she saw the lifeless body of her infant child laid out on a cold steel stretcher in a mortuary in Chennai, the capital of India’s southern Tamil Nadu state. Steven’s body was tightly wrapped in a striped woollen shawl, traditionally worn by the Kuki-Zo tribe […]
[ad_1] On April 30, Columbia University sent in hundreds of NYPD officers to disband the school’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment and remove protesters from occupied Hamilton Hall. The original encampment at Columbia—and the subsequent crackdown—inspired more than 199 similar protests nationwide. To prevent further actions, University President Minouche Shafik has asked the police to stay on […]
[ad_1] In flip-flops and shorts, one of the finest soldiers in a resistance force battling the military junta in Myanmar showed off his weaponry. It was, he apologized, mostly in pieces. The rebel, Ko Shan Gyi, glued panels of plastic shaped by a 3D printer. Nearby, electrical innards foraged from Chinese-made drones used for agricultural […]
[ad_1] Footage shows a man narrowly avoiding falling into a river in southern Brazil as a motorway bridge gave way on Tuesday. Heavy rains – triggering huge floods in the state of Rio Grande do Sul – have killed 39 people, with 68 still missing, local officials say. Tens of thousands have fled their homes […]
[ad_1] At the Freedom Rising Conference, faith leaders gather to confront the “existential threat to democracy” posed by Trump. Ad Policy The Rev. Jacqui Lewis speaks at the Freedom Rising Conference in New York City. (Angela Dykshorn) Latosha Brown almost canceled her speech at last weekend’s Freedom Rising Conference in New York because, she confessed, […]
[ad_1] A fresh order by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) will, in the next 30 days, create the Nigerian Independent System Operator of Nigeria Limited (NISO), leading to a split of the Transmission Commission of Nigeria (TCN). The order, marked NERC/2024/45, dated 30 April and signed by the Chairman/CEO, NERC, Sanusi Garba and Vice […]