After 500 days under siege, children in Sudan’s Al Fasher face starvation, mass displacement, and deadly violence - UNICEF
NEW YORK/PORT SUDAN, 27 August 2025 – After 500 days under siege, the city of Al Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur has become an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease, and violence claiming young lives daily, UNICEF warned today.
At least 600,000 people - half of them children - have been displaced from Al Fasher and surrounding camps in recent months. Inside the city, an estimated 260,000 civilians, including 130,000 children, remain trapped in desperate conditions, cut off from aid for more than 16 months.
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August 27, 2025
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Maduro mobilizes millions as U.S. warships near Venezuela | Miami Herald
Maduro announced a plan to mobilize 4.5M militia members across Venezuela in response to increased U.S. military presence in the Caribbean.
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August 19, 2025
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Racism, hatred and terror - The global network of rightwing extremists | DW Documentary
Racist and right-wing extremist networks are coalescing, worldwide. They carry out terrorist attacks on minorities and democratic institutions. Authorities in the USA and Europe consider this movement to be more dangerous than Islamist terrorism.
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July 18, 2025
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U.S. Cuts Aid to Somalia But Continues to Bomb It | Democracy Now!
In the Somali city of Baidoa, health clinics warn of a worsening vaccination and malnutrition crisis among children. This is Moazzam Malik of Save the Children.
Moazzam Malik: “Many communities, many children, many families are very vulnerable following drought years over the last few years, the loss of livelihoods, the loss of livestock, and they’re in desperate need. And at the same time that they face desperate needs with drought, with climate change impacts, they’re of course suffering now the impact of aid cuts.”
As the U.S. cuts aid to Somalia, U.S. warplanes carried out more airstrikes in Somalia last week. It was the 49th U.S. airstrike on Somalia since Trump returned to office, according to the group New America.
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July 11, 2025
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Hong Kong’s League of Social Democrats Disbands Amid Beijing’s Crackdown on Dissent | Democracy Now!
In Hong Kong, the opposition League of Social Democrats announced Sunday it would disband, after its members were prosecuted and jailed under a national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020. The crackdown came after party leaders helped organize massive street protests in 2019 in support of multiparty democracy in Hong Kong. This is Chan Po-ying, chair of the League of Social Democrats.
Chan Po-ying: “Over the 19 years since our founding, we have endured hardships of internal disputes and the near-total imprisonment of our leadership, while witnessing the erosion of civil society, the fading of grassroots voices, the omnipresence of red lines and the draconian suppression of dissent. Despite such adversities, the League of Social Democrats persisted, doing what little we could, just to remain true to our founding values and beliefs.”
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July 01, 2025
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In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal - Washington Post
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
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June 29, 2025
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Opinion | Trump Follows the Grand US Tradition of Ignoring Intelligence to Go to War | Common Dreams
In bombing Iran, Trump followed a long pattern of U.S. presidents ignoring their own intelligence agencies to take military action, from Vietnam to Iraq.
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June 28, 2025
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If You Thought Donald Trump Would Never Do This, You’re an Idiot | The New Republic
The most pernicious delusion of this era has been the idea that Trump is “the peace president.” His decision to bomb Iran shatters this myth.
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June 22, 2025
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US has struck three Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says, joining Israeli air campaign | AP News
President Donald Trump says the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel’s effort to decapitate the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.
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June 21, 2025
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Why is Israel allowed more than others? Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine is fatal for Europe.
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June 21, 2025
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Watch The Moment Bernie Sanders Finds Out Trump Launched Strikes On Iran Live During His Rally
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June 21, 2025
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2 arrested with arsenal and Nazi paraphernalia after base robbery were ex-military, prosecutors say
SEATTLE — Two men arrested in Washington state with an arsenal that included dozens of guns, explosives and body armor, along with Nazi paraphernalia, were former military members who attacked a soldier with a hammer while stealing gear from Joint Base Lewis-McChord last weekend, investigators say
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June 05, 2025
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Colorado firebomb suspect faces attempted murder and hate crime charges
The man arrested for attacking people marching in Colorado in support of Israeli hostages said he "wanted to kill Zionist people." He faces a federal hate crime charge and attempted murder charges.
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June 03, 2025
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Second fighter jet crashes into the sea after landing failure on USS Harry S. Truman
The F/A-18 Super Hornet failed to catch the arresting wire upon landing, the second time a jet has gone off the ship’s deck and into the Red Sea in eight days.
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May 07, 2025
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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March 26, 2025
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Trump Perpetuates Undeclared War in Somalia With Renewed Airstrikes
The United States has been carrying out operations in Somalia since at least 2002 without a formal war declaration.
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March 03, 2025
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Army Deleting Online Content Related to Women, Minorities Using Key Words Like 'Respect' and 'Dignity'
The deletion of photos, video and other content is part of an order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that all the military services eliminate online material not allowed by the Trump administration.
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March 03, 2025
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Trump orders airstrike on Islamic State planner in Somalia
It’s the first U.S. strike in Somalia under the second Trump administration, but follows similar strikes in the country last year under then-president Joe Biden.
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February 01, 2025
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North Koreans tell BBC they are stuck and waiting to die - BBC News
They expose, for the first time, the disaster unfolding there since the government sealed the borders more than three years ago starvation, brutal crackdowns and no chance to escape.
Under the tyrannical rule of Kim Jong Un, North Koreans are forbidden from making contact with the outside world.
A spokesperson for the North Korean government has disputed the claims, which they said were “not entirely factual”.
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June 15, 2023
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The Truth About Trump’s Drone War: ‘All I Saw Was Death’
Some pundits dreamt in 2016 that Donald Trump was some kind of dove. Here’s the reality they woke up to.
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May 26, 2019
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