With no aid allowed into Gaza for more than a month, the UN Secretary-General appealed on Tuesday for guaranteed humanitarian access to the enclave By UN News…
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BOMBS TO BEAUTY: Every piece tells a story
What happens to bombs after they land? Some explode. Some don’t, leaving behind a deadly legacy of war, but now the remnants of conflict and…
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‘An endless loop of blood, pain, death’
The top official decided against mincing his words, especially after having coordinated a mission on Sunday that uncovered the mass grave of humanitarian workers who were killed…
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‘Dressing to kill could kill the planet’
Fast fashion is accelerating an environmental catastrophe, with the equivalent of one garbage truck’s worth of clothing either incinerated or sent to landfill every second,…
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Gaza: UN relief chief demands ‘answers and justice’ following killings of first responders
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher on Monday called for “justice and answers” after Israeli forces killed eight Palestinian medics, six civil defence first responders, and a…
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The Catharsis of Caricature
If people can’t have catharsis using dissent and caricature, they are doomed to rot in a repressed state of permanent morbidity. If you can’t take…
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Donald’s Trumpet Plays the Song of Death
‘We’re destroying words—scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone… Every year fewer and fewer words, and…
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UN teams ramp up response to deadly quake in Myanmar and Thailand
Amid reports of hundreds dead or missing following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake with its epicentre in central Myanmar, UN teams in the region are ‘responding…
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All Ye Who Sleep Tonight…
I have heard it said that on this night one should ask, and ask for Allah’s bounties to one’s heart’s content, but, above all, one…
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Arab Failures: The Unspoken Complicity in Israel’s Genocide
As solidarity with Palestine has increasingly expanded from the global South to the global majority, the Arab nations remain largely ineffective, fearing that significant political…
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