By Ken Macon – Reclaim The Net

In Bangladesh, authorities have implemented a sweeping internet blackout as student-led demonstrations intensify, demanding changes to the public sector employment quotas. The focus of the protests is a contentious policy reserving a third of government roles for family members of the veterans of the 1971 War of independence. This week, escalating tensions saw protestors ransack the BTV state broadcaster’s headquarters in Dhaka, resulting in significant damage and numerous casualties. Continue reading “Bangladesh Orders Internet Blackout Amid Student Protests”

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

Yemen’s Houthis on Sunday responded to Israel’s airstrikes by promising a long war and ordering Israeli civilians to “immediately” evacuate Tel Aviv for their own “safety” and head to Ben Gurion Airport with their passports in hand. Continue reading “Yemen Orders Israelis to Evacuate ‘Unsafe Zones,’ Promises ‘No Red Lines’ in Response to Bombings”

By Ibtisam Mahdi – +972 Magazine

Photos of Fayez and Kariman, the children of Anas Juha, who were killed and trapped under the rubble by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, alongside Anas' wife Lena. (Courtesy of Anas Juha)

Every day for the past seven months, 28-year-old Anas Juha and his surviving relatives have visited the ruins of their family home in the hope of finding the remains of their missing loved ones. On Dec. 6, a single Israeli airstrike crushed their five-storey building in Gaza City’s Al-Fayoumi neighborhood, killing 117 members of the family. Fifty-seven bodies were recovered and identified; 60 others have remained trapped under the debris ever since. Continue reading “Searching for Gaza’s missing children”

By MEE staff

The official spokesperson for the Houthis, Nasruddin Amer, described the Israeli airstrike on the oil tanks and power facility at Hodeidah port as “a brutal act of aggression against Yemen aimed at worsening the suffering of its people and pressuring Yemen to halt its support for Gaza.” Continue reading “Yemen: Israel confirms airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Hodeidah port”

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Saturday said that “America must have Israel’s back” as Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah. Continue reading “AIPAC Says “America Must Have Israel’s Back” as Israel Bombs Yemen”

By Erin Doherty – Axios

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN - JULY 15: Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) appear on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Former President Trump, speaking at his first rally since surviving an attempted assassination, said that “he took a bullet for democracy” last weekend, while also taking numerous jabs at President Biden. Continue reading “Trump tries to distance from Project 2025 at first rally since shooting”