BBC: Fire prevention in one of the coldest places on Earth might not sound like the most likely job, but every year the US Antarctic Program recruits a team of fire-fighters to head poleward. “‘Are there fires in Antarctica?’ That’s always the question I get,” says Megan Branson, who spent over 24 months “on the…
Reuters: Activists and families of eight victims of the Philippines’ “war on drugs” filed a complaint on Tuesday with the International Criminal Court (ICC), a second petition accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of murder and crimes against humanity. The 50-page complaint calls for Duterte’s indictment for what it describes as thousands of extrajudicial killings, which include…
Reuters: Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s war have caused heavy civilian casualties at marketplaces, weddings and on fishing boats, some of which may amount to war crimes, United Nations human rights experts said on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia is leading a Western-backed alliance of Sunni Muslim Arab states trying to restore the internationally…
Abrar Hussain: Journalists have submitted a memorandum to the home ministry yesterday, demanding the fulfillment of their four-point demand, which includes the immediate arrest of the attackers who swooped on journalists during the recent student protests for road safety. Leaders and members of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ)…
Hindustan Times: The DMK on Tuesday said as many as 248 party workers died, ‘shocked’ by the death of party patriarch M Karunanidhi and announced a solatium of Rs two lakh each to their families. After knowing about the hospitalisation and failing health of Karunanidhi and later his death, 248 party workers died, a resolution…
Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist/ The Guardian, UK Apology without radical action has left unassuaged the anger of Irish abuse victims. Ireland’s confrontation with its dark past shines a searchlight on Catholicism. But all religions can be havens for abusers The pope has flown home after a roughing-up in Ireland. Just a few years ago…
Wajahat Qazi/WION news The cliché that “there are no permanent friends or enemies in international politics” holds a searing resonance and echo in the contemporary times. Even though not very significant , from and the “ grand chessboard” view and perspective of politics, the impermanence of friends and enemies in politics might be best encapsulated…
John Harris, Guardian columnist/The Guardian,UK Squeezed between Brexiteer and Corbynite tribes, a true national conversation seems impossible. But there is a way forward The autumn is coming, though it might be better to adopt American English, and think of it as the fall: out of the languid, heady days of summer, and back into the…
Alastair Sloan/Middle East Monitor It is sometimes hard to see why the war in Syria gets so much coverage in Britain, while the war in Yemen is all but ignored; it feels like a niche topic restricted to hard-core Middle East watchers. In reality, though, events in Yemen strike at the heart of Britain’s relationship…
Amulya Ganguli/Daily Sabah, Turkey ower and politics in Pakistan have always been an intricate affair crisscrossing through the political sphere of parliament and making their way right across the institutional sphere dominated by the country’s strong military and a coming of age judiciary. Where the political history of Pakistan has recorded coup d’état’s derailing the…