In the climax of France’s presidential campaign, centrist President Emmanuel Macron and far-right contender Marine Le Pen will meet on Wednesday evening in a one-on-one television debate that could prove decisive before Sunday’s runoff vote. Both candi…
Russia invades Ukraine: Mariupol forces facing ‘last days’
A commander in Ukraine’s strategic port city Mariupol has issued a desperate plea for help, saying his marines are “maybe facing our last days, if not hours” on Wednesday. The West has responded to a renewed Russian push in the east with fresh weapons …
Brown Girls: Navigating life as a woman of colour today
Daphne Palasi Andreades’ debut novelBrown Girls is a vibrant, emotive account of what it means to navigate life as a woman of colour today. In the opening chapter ofBrown Girls, Andreades sets the scene for what is to become the heartbeat of the novel …
Egypt refers man accused of killing Coptic priest to trial
Egyptian prosecutors on Tuesday referred a man to trial for allegedly stabbing to death a Coptic Christian priest in an attack that shocked the Arab World’s most populous country. The public prosecution said in a statement the suspect was accused of ki…
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party submits defence in case
Turkey’s third-largest political party, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP), said on Tuesday the court case targeting it is the culmination of a political effort to break it up. A top state prosecutor filed the case against the HDP in March…
Iran fights to recover stolen antiquities
Decorated glazed bricks almost 3,000 years old are on display at Iran’s National Museum after a four-decade search disrupted by war and an international legal battle. Lions and winged cows with human heads, horses and bulls with a goat’s horn, kneeling…
Al-Aqsa: Jordan PM commends Palestinian resistance to Israel
The Jordanian prime minister commended on Monday Palestinian resistance to Israeli violations at occupied East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The mosque, which is the third-holiest site in Islam, has faced repeated Israeli security and settler as…
Shutdown of Libya oil sites spreads to second terminal
Libya’s National Oil Corporation announced Tuesday the closure of a second export terminal, paralysing the vital energy sector in a North African country gripped by political crisis. The suspension of operations at Brega terminal, which has an export c…
Ukraine exposes US & Europe’s preference for white refugees
It took more than a month and a half, but finally the last remaining African students trapped in occupied Kherson, Ukraine, are said to have been evacuated from the city, weeks after video and images circulated showing Black evacuees in Ukraine being d…
Greece: Syrian asylum-seekers found on sailboat near Athens
Greek authorities say they are searching for the captain of a small Polish-flagged sailboat found moored in a bay on the island of Salamina, near the country’s largest port of Piraeus, carrying five Syrian nationals who had been smuggled into the count…