“Stop the bloodbath”: activists in Paris call for end to war in Gaza/in /by
A group of protesters gathered in Paris on Wednesday to call for a ceasefire and an end to the war in the Gaza Strip. The activists were part of a variety of organisations, among them Greenpeace, Amnesty International and Médecins du Monde.
Sick Mexican child faces deportation after humanitarian parole revoked/in /by
The life-saving medical treatment four-year-old Sofia receives in California is not available in Mexico.
Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of slaves after long legal battle/in /by
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history
Elon Musk uncermoniously leaves Trump adminstration/in /by
While his exit was expected, it comes a day after he criticised Trump’s tax and spending bill, the centrepiece of the president's agenda.
Seven dead as migrant boat capsizes in Spain’s Canary Islands/in /by
A boat carrying migrants capsized within reach of shore as it arrived at Spain's Canary Islands on Wednesday and four women and three girls drowned, authorities said.
With sanctions lifted, Syrians are hopeful to restore Aleppo to former glory/in /by
Aleppo, a city in northwestern Syria, has long been the country's economic powerhouse. With countries lifting sanctions on Syria after the end of the brutal civil war, the nation is looking towards rebuilding and reviving Aleppo.
Ancelotti and Vinicius Jr. reunite as Brazil prepare to face Ecuador/in /by
On Wednesday, Carlo Ancelotti, Brazil's new manager, reunited with striker Vinícius Jr., one of his key players from Real Madrid.
World likely to breach temperature records, exceed 1.5°C limit by 2030/in /by
A new report released by the World Meteorological Organisation on Wednesday warns that global annual temperatures are rising, leading to new weather extremes and heat records.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a revered Kenyan author dies at 87/in /by
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country's history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only the stories told but the language used to tell them, died Wednesday at 87.
600 days of war: Gaza faces grief and starvation/in /by
More than two million people in Gaza are facing overwhelming grief, starvation, and displacement as the war reaches its 600th day, with growing desperation for an end to the conflict.