Gaza Civil Defense reports that 123 Gazan citizens in the Gaza Strip have been killed since the announcement of the ceasefire agreement last Wednesday until 10:00 AM today, Saturday. The…
As Gazans wait for ceasefire to come into effect on Sunday 81 people were killed in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile Israel's cabinet is delaying its meeting to approve the…
A wave of Israeli air attacks hit Yemen’s main airport just as the World Health Organization’s director-general said he was about to board a flight there, wounding one of the…
Five journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the vicinity of a hospital in central Gaza. The journalists from the Al-Quds Today channel were covering events near al-Awda…
The spokesman for UN chief Antonio Guterres told AlJazeera Israel is continuing to refuse the delivery of aid to the northern Gaza Strip, amid an ongoing Israeli siege and intense…
A dire environmental disaster looms over Gaza, as the streets of the northern Strip become graveyards for countless Palestinians killed in relentless Israeli airstrikes, warned Mohammed Abu Afash, Director of…
An Israeli attack on Palestinian security guards escorting a humanitarian aid shipment in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 12 people and injured dozens. Medics and local residents told…
One of the most outstanding philosophers and guides of India's Dalit-Bahujan Movement, V T Rajshekar, founding Editor of Dalit Voice passed away at the age of 93, in Mangaluru, Karnataka.…
Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan hospital told Al Jazeera that Israel is blocking the entry of food, water, medical staff and materials destined for the north. He…
The author and thinker Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd alleged that "left liberals joining hands with fundamentalist Muslim youth" are curtailing his freedom of expression. He further alleged that "leftists think that…
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd was disinvited from 'Hortus' Arts and Literary Festival hosted by Malayala Manorama in Kozhikode Kerala from November 1-3. Kancha Ilaiah alleges that this was due to an…
India was not among the more than 100 United Nations member states that signed a new letter of support for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres after Israel's foreign minister declared him…
The Israeli military launched a wave of deadly airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon on Monday, the latest escalatory step toward a full-blown war following Israel's mass detonations of electronic devices that…
After a concerted national campaign - The NFDC / NMIC, Mumbai HQ, called off the Israel Film Festival slated to be held in Mumbai on the 21st-22nd of August. India…
Sheikh Hasina has quit as Bangladesh Prime Minister and fled the country. Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman said that the Army will form an interim government and has appealed to…
Jeremy Corbyn MP, British politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020 congratulated social activists in India on the election…
After ruling for 10 years India's right-wing Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to make a decisive majority in India's 543 member parliament. As per the latest trends BJP…
Admiral L. Ramdas (90) passed away this morning at the Military Hospital in Secunderabad. He stood up for peace, justice and communal harmony. He was a champion of India-Pakistan peace.…
This is an updated version of the “People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy” that Countercurrents.org published on 15th August 2020, where we set out a broad framework on how India should…
The Supreme Court of India struck down the Electoral Bonds Scheme of 2017, holding it to be unconstitutional. While pronouncing the unanimous verdict of the five-bench constitutional bench, Chief Justice…
Exactly half of Americans say Israel has “gone too far” in its military response in Gaza, according to a new survey. The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs…
More than 800 civil servants from the U.S., the UK, and the European Union released a statement on Friday criticizing their governments' support of Israel in its war in Gaza, warning…
The U.S. launched airstrikes against militias in Syria and Iraq as retaliation for the drone attack that killed three U.S. soldiers, pulling the Biden administration even deeper into the conflict…
Parts of U.S. media are laying off hundreds of journalists. The Messenger, a U.S. online news site that promoted itself to deliver unbiased and trusted news, abruptly shut down Wednesday…
Israel has ignored the ruling by the U.N.'s top court last week by killing hundreds more civilians in a matter of days in Gaza, South Africa’s foreign minister said Wednesday, adding that…
A death row prisoner used his final words to say “humanity had taken a step backwards” before he was killed in a prolonged suffocation condemned as torture. Kenneth Smith shook and writhed…
Researchers estimated there may have been more than 64,500 pregnancies resulting from rape in the 14 states that have enacted near-total abortion bans since Roe v. Wade was overturned in…
The military governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have announced their exit from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), claiming the regional bloc has become a tool…
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history took an irreversible step forward earlier this month when crews opened a 16-foot-wide tunnel in the base of the Iron Gate Dam…
Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around the world, spanning nearly…
To protest rightist policies of far-right president, Argentinians have begun a general strike on Wednesday. The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) called on Argentinians to mobilize nationwide to protest against…
More than 100,000 people marched in cities across Germany on Saturday to protest the rise of the country's leading far-right party. Anger toward the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party began brewing…
As the Israel-Hamas war passed the 100-day mark this week, the Gaza Strip continues to be devastated amid the conflict, with women and children said to be the majority of casualties --…
At least 66 million people in the U.S. were under winter weather alerts Thursday, as dangerously cold and icy conditions continue to pose risks — including in Oregon, where three…
UK defense minister Grant Shapps has predicted a global conflict between the West and Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, within five years. Shapps has called on Britain’s allies to increase…
The Israeli military has been “astonished” by the size and quality of the tunnels Hamas has built under Gaza, according to an article published in the New York Times on Tuesday. The tunnel network…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at a press conference in New York on Monday: The current instability in the Middle East may soon spiral completely out of control. Guterres once…
All prison guards and administrative employees held hostage by inmates at correctional facilities across Ecuador have now been freed, the national prisons agency SNAI said Saturday night. The SNAI prison…
Natural disasters including destructive thunderstorms and devastating earthquakes in 2023 cost the world around $250 billion in damages as climate change churned up dangerous and deadly weather across the globe,…
The U.S. and the UK have launched an attack on Yemen, striking the cities of Sanaa and Hodeidah, Houthi spokesman Abdulsalam Jahaf said early on Friday. Western newspapers including the…
Chemicals leaching from plastics are leaving Americans notably sicker and poorer, according to a new study found. By contributing to the development of chronic disease and death, a group of hormone-disruptive…
The World Bank (WB) in its latest ‘Global Economic Prospects’ report released on Tuesday has warned: The global economy is on track for its worst five-year period of growth in…
2023 was the warmest year recorded in 173 years of record-keeping, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (CCCS) confirmed Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The global average temperature for 2023 was…
The internationally agreed threshold to prevent the Earth from spiraling into a new superheated era will be “passed for all practical purposes” during 2024, the man known as the godfather…
Iran and Russia have officially switched from the West’s SWIFT financial clearing system to a direct interbank transfer mechanism, the deputy head of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has…
The Supreme Court today cancelled the early release of the 11 men convicted of raping Bilkis Bano and killing her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The convicts will return…
The American dream has morphed into a pipe dream for many people living in the U.S., says a report by Money wise. The report -- 'The new American dream is…
The White House has warned that the potential for higher shipping costs to affect the U.S. economy amid diversion of ships from the Red Sea will depend on how long…
The BRICS group of nations represents “humanity’s future” due to its sheer economic power, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has argued. Maduro also claimed that his fellow Latin American leader, Argentinian…
U.S. government federal debt has breached an unflattering milestone, topping $34 trillion for the first time in history and amounting to more than double the total of the world’s next-biggest…
Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned from her position — making her tenure the shortest ever in the University’s centuries-old existence. The news was originally reported by the Boston Globe and The Harvard…
Latest data released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) show: The U.S. dollar’s share of global central bank reserves has continued to decrease, nosediving to 59.2% in the third quarter…
John Pilger, world famous investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, has died on Saturday at his home in London, his family announced on Sunday in a post on X (formerly Twitter). John…
The world’s richest people got even richer over the past year, Bloomberg’s top-500 billionaire list, published on Wednesday, shows. Some 77% of the billionaires who made it on the list…
The U.S. State Department announced a $250 million Ukraine military aid package on Wednesday, the last such package the U.S. will provide to Ukraine until Congress approves the Biden administration’s…
Thousands of migrants and asylum seekers moved slowly north across the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Tuesday in a caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, one day before…
Citing U.S. and Saudi officials the New York Times reported: Saudi Arabia has no interest in taking part in the new U.S.-led coalition to safeguard commercial traffic in the Red…
Ukraine’s prospects of a battlefield victory are not looking good and the country must prepare for the worst, two lawmakers in Kiev told The Times of London in an article…
Pro-Western demonstrators have attempted to break into government buildings in Belgrade in what Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has called an attempted “color revolution.” Aleksandar Vucic praised police for withstanding “brutal attacks” and preserving…
The attack on the Nord Stream pipelines commissioned by U.S. President Joe Biden was primarily aimed at Germany rather than Russia, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has claimed. The decision to…
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