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12/17/2025

Yemen's separatist Southern Transitional Council, which is said to be backed by the United Arab Emirates, has been rapidly advancing through large parts of the country's south and east, in Hadramawt, al-Mahra and Shabwa provinces. They are taking over control from groups... Read moreYemen: UAE-backe...

12/16/2025

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) announced a state of emergency following a wave of coups and attempted coups that have struck several member states of the regional bloc. The declaration was made during the 55th session of the ECOWAS Security... Read moreECOWAS declares regiona...

12/15/2025

On World Humanitarian Day in August, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus released a statement calling attention to intensifying attacks on healthcare workers and facilities, which constitute war crimes under international humanitarian law. "We must stop this becomin...

12/15/2025

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US instates ‘Trump Corollary’ to Monroe Doctrine

12/13/2025

Ecuador's financial crimes agency froze the bank accounts of several indigenous and environmental groups in an apparent effort to silence protests, Human Rights Watch said. The government's Unidad de Análisis Financiero y Económico (UAFE) cited secret intelligence reports to justify the freezing.....

12/13/2025

Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy instates a "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine. Like the Roosevelt Corollary of 1904, which was used to justify the "gunboat diplomacy" of that era, this new corollary openly calls for dividing the world... Read moreTrump Corollary: spheres of inf...

12/11/2025

A rare convergence of three tropical cyclones with the northeast monsoon has triggered the worst flooding to hit South and Southeast Asia in decades. More than 1,600 people have been killed, thousands remain unaccounted for, and whole villages have disappeared... Read moreTriple-cyclone disaster cry...

12/10/2025

A coalition of civil and human rights organizations is calling for the closure of a massive immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, alleging guards have beaten detainees and threatened violence, criminal charges and imprisonment in attempts to coerce even non-Mexican migrants... Read moreAbuse...

12/09/2025

Birthright citizenship in the United States was never a bureaucratic detail or an immigration loophole. It was a direct assault on white supremacy's original theory of the nation—that Black presence was permissible only as labor, never as belonging. The framers... Read moreWHEN CITIZENSHIP BECOMES...

12/09/2025

Honduras is on tenterhooks as the results of its presidential election have not yet been finalized, and Trump has threatened reprisals if his favored candidate fails to win. Since the voting, ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández—convicted in the US last year... Read morePost-electoral tension in H...

12/08/2025

President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy puts the Western Hemisphere at the center of US foreign policy and revives the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, appending it with a "Trump Corollary." The document presents the Americas as the main line of... Read moreUS instates ‘Trump Corollary’ ...

12/08/2025

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UN protests as Trump threatens Venezuela