From Uzbek disco to Uighur rock: Forgotten sounds of the Silk Road | Music
On an early morning car ride from Tashkent to Samarkand after a performance in 1983, the Uzbek pop singer Nasiba Abdullaeva tuned in to an…
Caught in India-China clashes, Ladakh’s nomadic herders fear for future | Politics
Chushul, Ladakh, India – The bubbling sound of water boiling on the stove and the aroma of spinach dal fill the air in Tashi Angmo’s…
The South African anti-apartheid cathedral that’s now a pro-Palestine hub | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Cape Town, South Africa – At the corner of a main intersection in the heart of Cape Town’s city centre stands the oldest cathedral in…
India’s Ratan Tata, the man who knew how to ‘think big and bold’ | Obituaries News
A greying, slightly bent man asked for a table for two at the Sea Lounge, the iconic coffee shop at the Taj Hotels’ flagship hotel in…
Locked out: Palestinians in Jordan still waiting to return to stolen homes | Israel-Palestine conflict
Amman, Jordan - David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, believed that the memory of the Nakba, or "catastrophe", would eventually fade for the hundreds of…
Fact check: Are Haitian immigrants in Springfield in the US illegally? | US Election 2024
CBS News moderators muted vice presidential candidates’ microphones only once during the October 1 vice presidential debate: during a discussion about immigration. Specifically, when they…
What’s at stake in Tunisia’s presidential election on Sunday? | Elections News
Sunday’s election in Tunisia will mark the first since President Kais Saied was elected to power as an independent with no prior political experience in…
‘No place to go’: As Israel bombs Lebanon, African migrants feel abandoned | Israel attacks Lebanon News
Soreti*, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker living in Lebanon, says she feels lucky to be alive. She was not home when Israeli air strikes struck…
‘Like we are trapped’: Minorities suffer amid conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine | Conflict News
Earlier this year, artillery fire crashed through U Khup Thang’s home in Paletwa, in western Myanmar’s Chin State, killing his son. “It felt like a…
Analysis: Israel and the forever war | Israel-Palestine conflict News
After a year of comprehensively destroying Gaza, its military using overwhelming force to suppress Hamas fighters, Israel is exhausted and increasingly isolated. The excessive violence…
No cookers, showers or gas – displaced people shelter in Lebanese schools | Israel attacks Lebanon
Aley, Lebanon – The traffic in Aley was unusually heavy for 11am on Thursday last week as people from all over southern and eastern Lebanon…
How Artificial Intelligence and ‘space’ missiles saved Israel from carnage after Iran unleashed missile blitz
BRITAIN could not have “coped” with the sort of massive missile blitz unleashed on Israel by Iran on Tuesday.That was the verdict of Israel’s ambassador…
‘We lost a great supporter’: Palestinians in Gaza mourn Hassan Nasrallah | Israel-Lebanon attacks
Deir el-Balah, Gaza – In a tattered makeshift tent in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Basma al-Helou and her husband were preparing their…
What’s behind recent false claims about immigrants and crime in the US? | US Election 2024
Sign on to social media these days and you’ll soon find posts warning about the threat of immigrants to your family’s – and your pets’…
The Indigenous ‘watchmen’ safeguarding Peru’s isolated tribes | Indigenous Rights
Balta, Peru – On an overcast afternoon in April, Nolasco Torres and Freddy Capitan navigate their canoe along a jungle-veiled ravine. Along the route, they…
‘He was like a father to us’: Hezbollah supporters mourn Hassan Nasrallah | Israel-Lebanon attacks News
Beirut, Lebanon – On Friday evening, Mariam* was in her apartment with her teenage daughter and mother when her building began rumbling and shaking. Agonising…
Is Austria’s far right poised for historic win in Sunday elections? | The Far Right News
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) appears set to win the popular vote on Sunday in what would be a historic first. The FPO…
‘It’s needless death’: Ugandan activists decry restrictive abortion laws | Women’s Rights News
Kampala, Uganda – At exactly 3:21pm on August 25, Moses Odongo received a call informing him that his 14-year-old cousin Christine had died attempting to…
Sombre mood after a Kolkata rape and murder dampens Durga Puja celebrations | Crime
Kolkata, India: Tapas Pal has been making clay idols of various gods and goddesses for the past two decades at Kumartuli, a traditional potters’ hub…
Civil war in the home of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel: Fear grips Culiacan | Drugs News
Culiacan, Mexico – The man is lying, top off, trousers pulled down, amid the rubbish just off a main road in the capital city of…