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Nov

22

2025

Deadly strikes on western Ukraine kill at least 25, UN refugee agency warns no area safe

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A devastating Russian aerial attack on western Ukraine has killed at least 25 people and wounded over 100, prompting the UN refugee agency to warn that no part of the country should be considered safe from the conflict. The strike on Ternopil is reported to be among the deadliest attacks on western Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. The cities of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk were also hit in the coordinated assault, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Emergency services continued responding to the attacks, which damaged energy facilities, transportation networks and civilian infrastructure. The…

Nov

21

2025

By OWN CORRESPONDENT

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in mass West Bank expulsions

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HUMAN Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by forcibly expelling 32,000 Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps earlier this year and barring them from returning to their demolished homes. In a 105-page report, the international rights organisation detailed what it called "ethnic cleansing" carried out by Israeli forces in coordinated raids on the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps between January and February 2025, while global attention remained focused on the Gaza ceasefire. The report documents "Operation Iron Wall," which began January 21 with Israeli forces storming Jenin camp using Apache…

Nov

21

2025

By OWN CORRESPONDENT

UN humanitarians call for aid scale-up as winter rains batter Gaza

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UN humanitarian agencies have urged immediate expansion of aid access to Gaza following the Security Council's endorsement of a US-brokered peace plan, as severe winter weather compounded the suffering of displaced Palestinian families. The Security Council on Monday backed the "Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict" announced by US President Donald Trump on September 29. The resolution authorises a transitional "Board of Peace" administration to establish a temporary international force in Gaza after two years of war. However, UN officials cautioned that implementation details remain unclear while conditions on the ground continue to deteriorate. "We're still in the hypotheticals,"…

Nov

21

2025

By ALEX HINTON

Why MAGA is so concerned with Epstein − and why the files are unlikely to dent loyalty to Trump

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WITH the latest shift by President Donald Trump on releasing the Epstein files held by the U.S. Department of Justice – he’s now for it after being against it after being for it – the MAGA base may finally get to view the documents it’s long wanted to see. On the afternoon of Nov. 18, 2025, the House voted overwhelmingly to seek release of the files, with only one Republican voting against the measure. The Senate later in the day agreed unanimously to pass the measure and send it on to the president for his signature. The Conversation’s politics editor,…

Nov

20

2025

By GRACE PANETTA

‘This is who you’re fighting for’: Epstein survivors push for justice for their younger selves

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — On a chilly Tuesday morning, over a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein gathered at the U.S. Capitol on the precipice of a hard-fought victory: a vote to release the federal government’s files on the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender with ties to many powerful people. For the survivors, the vote marked long-delayed justice for their younger selves, who were represented in the photos many of them held — proof of innocence stolen and dreams shattered. “I want everybody to take a look,” survivor Haley Robson said as she held a picture of herself as the teenager…

Nov

20

2025

By WILL WORLEY

Big questions hang over Loss and Damage Fund’s $250m trial run

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ANOTHER year, another COP, and another round of fraught loss and damage negotiations, as extreme weather continues unabated around the world. But finally, money is on the table: $250 million, for a trial run. The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), as it is officially known, has opened for business. But as it prepares to welcome its first funding proposals, FRLD staff are facing major decisions on how the institution will develop. After major aid budget cuts, humanitarians are keener than ever to access the Fund, including to support badly needed disbursements to fragile and conflict-affected states –…

Jan

29

2026

By JOHN E. JONES III

‘We want you arrested because we said so’ – how ICE’s policy on raiding whatever homes it wants violates a basic constitutional right, according to a former federal judge

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AS Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents continued to use aggressive and sometimes violent methods to make arrests in its mass deportation campaign, including breaking down doors in Minneapolis homes, a bombshell report from the Associated Press on Jan. 21, 2026, said that an internal ICE memo – acquired via a whistleblower – asserted that immigration officers could enter a home without a judge’s warrant. That policy, the report said, constituted “a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.” Those limits have long been found in the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.…

Nov

19

2025

By RASHA ABOU JALAL

Return to Gaza City: Hope sprouts from the rubble

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AFTER nearly two months of displacement, I have returned to Gaza City. Around me, everything is in ruins, but I am glad to be home. I kept a diary for The New Humanitarian in August and September, documenting my family’s attempt to resist being forced from Gaza City by Israel’s assault and invasion. But, as soldiers and drones closed in on the neighbourhood where we were staying and our supplies ran low, like hundreds of thousands of others, we eventually had no choice but to flee. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian.By Rasha Abou Jalal. Author and…

Nov

19

2025

By GRACE PANETTA

House set to vote on forcing the Justice Department to release the Epstein files

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THE House is poised to vote this week to force the Justice Department to release files on disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It marks a rare and notable instance of the Republican-controlled Congress rebuking the Trump administration — and of President Donald Trump bending to congressional will — on an issue that has transcended party lines and rocked Trump’s second term. This story was originally reported by Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet Grace and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. After months of trying to halt momentum on the Epstein issue, including…

Nov

19

2025

By ELENA COLLINSON

Australians are markedly more worried about the US, still wary about China: new poll

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AUSTRALIANS remain supportive of the US alliance, but they are viewing it much more critically than before. And many are more concerned about American behaviour under the Trump administration, while softening their views somewhat on China. In a new poll of 2,045 people conducted by the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney, 54% said they were concerned about US interference in Australia, a jump of nearly 20 points since 2021. This narrows the gap with the level of concern about interference from China and Russia, which has steadied around 64%. And for the first time in the…