Category: World
Indigenous river campaigner from Peru wins prestigious Goldman prize
An Indigenous campaigner and women’s leader from the Peruvian Amazon has been awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activists, after leading a successful legal [more…]
Grassroots activists who took on corruption and corporate power share 2025 Goldman prize
Grassroots activists who helped jail corrupt officials and obtain personhood rights for a sacred Amazonian river are among this year’s winners of the world’s most [more…]
El Salvador’s president proposes swapping US-deported Venezuelans with Maduro’s ‘political prisoners’
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has proposed sending 252 Venezuelans deported from the US and imprisoned in his country to Venezuela, in exchange for “political [more…]
US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days
Immigration officials detained a US citizen for nearly 10 days in Arizona, according to court records and press reports. As the NPR affiliate Arizona Public [more…]
Tunisian court hands prison sentences of up to 66 years in mass trial of regime opponents
A Tunisian court has handed down prison sentences of 13 to 66 years to politicians, businessmen and lawyers in a mass trial that opponents say [more…]
‘I love my country but nobody is safe’: the plight of Cameroon’s exiles, trapped in Nigeria
Amid the sound of children excitedly practising a drama for a forthcoming performance, a yam seller calls to passers by with discounts for their wares. [more…]
China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon for first time
Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over [more…]
Congo boat disaster death toll rises to 148, with more than 100 still missing
The death toll from a boat fire and capsizing in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this week has risen to 148 with more than [more…]
Wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks as White House defiant over US return
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported, expressed relief to learn he is [more…]
China dismisses Zelenskyy’s claim it has supplied weapons to Russia
China’s foreign ministry has dismissed as “groundless” the accusation by Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the country had been supplying weapons to Russia. The comments, made at [more…]
