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Jun 29, 2025 - World

Fatima Omas Abdullah wakes up every morning with aches and pains from sleeping on bare ground for almost two years. She did not expect Sudan's civil war to displace her for so long into neighboring Chad.

Jun 29, 2025 - World

Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire vow to hold authorities accountable as repression intensifies before October electionsTwo east African activists say they plan to sue Tanzania’s government for illegal detention and torture during a visit in support of an opposition politician in May.Boniface Mwangi, from Kenya, and Agather Atuhaire, a Ugandan, sent shock waves around the region earlier this month when they gave an emotional press conference in which they alleged they had been sexually assaulted and, in Atuhaire’s case, smeared in excrement after their detention in Dar es Salaam. “[The authorities] take you through sexual torture,” Mwangi said at the time. Continue reading...

Jun 29, 2025 - World

Russia has launched its biggest aerial attack against Ukraine overnight, part of an escalating bombing campaign that has further dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the 3-year-old war

Jun 29, 2025 - World

Donald Trump just "threatened Israel" on Saturday, according to a former associate of the president.Lev Parnas, a former "trusted operative" of the president, over the weekend reported on a secretive global power shift involving Trump and other world leaders.After that report, Trump came out with a comment about Israel."It is terrible what they are doing in Israel to Bibi Netanyahu. He is a War Hero, and a Prime Minister who did a fabulous job working with the United States to bring Great Success in getting rid of the dangerous Nuclear threat in Iran," Trump wrote. "Importantly, he is right now in the process of negotiating a Deal with Hamas, which will include getting the Hostages back. How is it possible that the Prime Minister of Israel can be forced to sit in a Courtroom all day long, over NOTHING (Cigars, Bugs Bunny Doll, etc.)."Trump also said, "The United States of America spends Billions of Dollar a year, far more than on any other Nation, protecting and supporting Israel. We are not going to stand for this."That's the part that stood out for Parnas, who highlighted those two sentences."BREAKING: Donald Trump is threatening Israel, demanding they halt the criminal proceedings against Prime Minister Netanyahu—or face consequences," Parnas wrote on Saturday. "This is an unprecedented intrusion into a sovereign legal process."Parnas went even further in a Substack post, writing, "Trump issued a thinly veiled threat to a sovereign democracy—Israel—for daring to hold its own Prime Minister accountable."He added that Trump's comment was "as if American aid to Israel should come with personal immunity for Bibi Netanyahu.""Let me be clear: Donald Trump is using U.S. foreign aid as a political weapon to protect fellow authoritarians. He did it with Ukraine and now he’s doing it with Israel," Parnas said. "This is a man actively undermining our global alliances for his personal power network."Read the Substack post right here.

Jun 29, 2025 - World

By plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles, tourists are beginning to discover Afghanistan, with solo travelers and tour groups gradually venturing into a country that until recently was wracked by war.