Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland
Vladimir Putin unleashed his sinister nuclear-capable 8,000 mph Oreshnik missile in a strike on the outskirts of Ukrainian city Lviv, Russian confirmed.
An agent shot a woman in Minneapolis, causing vast and needless grief. Our country is diseased – but that is not the only truth A woman in Minneapolis has died as her neighbors fought Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation. On Wednesday morning, a group of local civilian protesters gathered around a site where several ICE agents were attempting to abduct migrants. The agents were part of a surge of roughly 2,000 deportation officers who have been sent to Minneapolis as part of Trump’s effort to persecute the Somali community there. In a disturbing incident caught on video by multiple onlookers, a woman driving in an SUV covered in bumper stickers blocked traffic on the residential road – perhaps as part of an effort to keep ICE vehicles from passing. In the videos, an ICE agent approaches the SUV, yelling: “Get out of the car. Get out of the fucking car.” He stands at the driver’s side, with his feet clear of the vehicle, and reaches into where the woman is driving. She begins to drive away, and an officer fires three shots, the last from behind the vehicle as the car pulls away from him. The SUV then crashes into a parked vehicle as onlookers scream in distress. “You did a murder, for what?” one of the protesters calls out to the agents. The driver, a US citizen who was described by Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar as a “legal observer”, was declared dead. She died less than a mile from where George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020. Her name was Renee Nicole Good, and she was 37. Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
In an extrordinary interview, Donald Trump defends his record on Venezuela and threats to others nations including Greenland, Colombia and Mexico in the last week
Local media named Jonathan Ross as the shooter, with federal officials describing him as an ‘experienced’ officer
Case brought by Muslim leaders and MP follows failed 2024 bid and seen as part of global anti-women’s rights backlash A group of religious leaders and an MP in the Gambia have launched efforts to overturn a ban on female genital mutilation at the country’s supreme court. The court case, due to resume this month, comes after two babies bled to death after undergoing FGM in the Gambia last year. Almameh Gibba, an MP and one of the plaintiffs, tabled a bill to decriminalise FGM that was rejected by the country’s parliament in 2024. Continue reading...
You might think that the ongoing controversy over how West Midlands Police handled a football match last year between Aston Villa and the Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv was about the game itself.
But it ended just seconds later in an unprecedented tragedy on a snowy residential street - one that now threatens to tear the country apart.
The Israeli left has gotten used to fighting small, isolated battles. Mickey Gitzin, head of the New Israel Fund, thinks on a completely different scale – and says leftists can't leave now
A female prisoner behind bars are MCI-Framingham, Massachusetts's only female prison, said she was locked away after reporting a transgender inmate raped her.
Military analysts say that if diplomacy fails - and if Donald Trump decides to act - a US takeover of Greenland would be swift, overwhelming and deeply destabilizing.
The incident is threatening to inflame a deeply contentious debate over immigration enforcement.
Mothers have been left without maternity care and report breast milk drying up thanks to rising malnourishment, Maira Butt writes. Now, 100 leading figures of the arts are calling for action
In 1934 and 1978, Fifa’s big event was given over to authoritarian aims. There’s no more doubt that 2026 will be the same By 1934, it was entirely evident what Benito Mussolini was up to. Italy’s dictator had already consolidated power, colonized Libya and annexed the city of Rijeka. He nevertheless got to stage the second-ever World Cup, managing it with a heavy hand and even supplanting the Jules Rimet trophy with a far larger one. Hosting and winning that World Cup didn’t sate his expansionist appetites. By the end of decade, Mussolini would take Ethiopia, annex Albania and back Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. It was equally well established in 1978 that General Jorge Videla’s military junta in Argentina, which had taken over two years earlier, was maintaining its grip on power through systematic detention, torture and murder . Still, protestations from other nations were ignored and the World Cup kicked off. Leander Schaerlaeckens’ book on the United States men’s national soccer team, The Long Game, is out on May 12. You can preorder it here . He teaches at Marist University. Continue reading...
Anger and outrage are spilling out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer
Barricades were erected by community members around the intersection where Renee Nicole Good, 37, was killed by an ICE agent in Minnesota.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey went on another expletive-laden rant while defending Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was fatally shot by an ICE agent on Wednesday.
Rift deepens as Riyadh says Aidarous al-Zubaidi, leader of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, was helped to flee Yemen Saudi Arabia has accused the United Arab Emirates of smuggling a UAE-backed separatist Yemeni leader out of the country after he failed to turn up for crisis talks in Riyadh on Wednesday. The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said Aidarous al-Zubaidi had fled the port city of Aden for Abu Dhabi under Emirati supervision, deepening a diplomatic row between Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Continue reading...
Pauline Hansonhas accused Anthony Albaneseof refusing to name radical Islam as 'the real problem' in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack.
Lawmakers issue warning about homeland security budget after shooting death by federal agent of Renee Nicole Good A day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a 37-year-old US citizen in Minneapolis, Democrats on Capitol Hill are demanding restraints on the agency Donald Trump has empowered to carry out his mass deportation campaign – and some are threatening to use the next funding deadline to force those changes. Democrats sharply condemned the Trump administration over the killing of Renee Nicole Good , demanding accountability after the president; JD Vancethe vice-president; and the secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem repeatedly claimed that the officer acted in “self-defense”. Continue reading...
Seattle drug abusers heaped praise on Mayor Katie Wilson when asked about her soft-touch policies by the Daily Mail.
A country 'cannot enforce its law on the territory of another state' without consent, UN rapporteur tells Al Jazeera.
US and Russian ideologies would be in alignment, leaving Europe as an island of liberalism, according to analysts.
Turkiye closely monitoring Israel’s regional manoeuvres in the Eastern Mediterranean as tensions widen.
UN rapporteur tells Al Jazeera she is concerned that the world may be returning to an 'age of imperialism'.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says the Bulgarian diplomat chosen as 'designated' director-general.
Lloyd’s List analysis suggests 40 suspicious vessels joined Russian registry last year, with 17 reflagged last month Forty ships accused of belonging to a large “shadow fleet” moving sanctioned oil for Venezuela and others were reflagged to Russia last year in an apparent attempt to gain Kremlin protection from American seizure. Analysis by the shipping intelligence publication Lloyd’s List suggests that of those, at least 17 suspicious vessels joined the Russian registry over the past month, compared with 15 ships in the previous five months of 2025. Continue reading...
The U.S. president’s decision to withdraw from dozens of international groups will make America’s enemies rejoice, The Independent’s World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley writes
People told to leave three areas as fears grow of wider conflict between government and Kurdish authorities The Syrian army ordered civilians to evacuate neighbourhoods of Aleppo on Thursday after fighting with Kurdish forces entered its third day, deepening the rift between the Syrian government and the US-backed Kurdish authorities in Syria. The Syrian government urged people to leave the three contested neighbourhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafieh and Bani Zeid by early afternoon, opening humanitarian corridors and displacement shelters to facilitate their exit. The Syrian army said it would begin military operations against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after the deadline, and issued maps showing specific areas that needed to be evacuated. Continue reading...
The United States could oversee Venezuela and control its oil revenue for years, President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Thursday.
President Trump said the U.S. could run Venezuela and tap into its oil reserves ‘for years’; he lashed out at five Republican rebels for their "stupidity" on his Truth Social platform
US envoy welcomes pause in hostilities in contested region although it is unclear whether deal will hold Syria’s government has announced a ceasefire after three days of clashes with Kurdish fighters in Aleppo, which has led to more than 140,000 people being displaced. The pause in the fighting, which was the most intense in the country for more than six months, came into effect at 3am local time (midnight GMT). Under the terms of the ceasefire, Kurdish militants were to leave the three contested neighbourhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafieh and Bani Zaid, where clashes were happening. They would be provided safe passage to the north-east of the country, which is controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and be allowed to take light arms with them. Continue reading...
The Mexican American artist was scheduled to give two concerts for young people on February 7
Downing Street says move to restrict AI tool is ‘not a solution’ after sexualised images of women and children were generated
Six months pregnant, the student had returned home briefly after marrying a Dalit man despite facing threats from her family
The former Little Mix star confirmed her twins, eight month old daughters Ocean Jade and Story, had been diagnosed with the condition in an Instagram post on Sunday.
AI tool also used to undress image of woman killed by ICE agent in US, says research Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok has been used to create sexually violent and explicit video content featuring women, according to new research, as the British prime minister added to condemnation of images it has created. Grok has also been used to undress an image of Renee Nicole Good , the woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the US on Wednesday, and to portray her with a bullet wound in her forehead. Continue reading...
Jonathan E. Ross, 43, is an Enforcement and Removal Operations agent and Iraq veteran, who is married to a woman with Filipino parents.
Nationwide internet blackout as unrest spreads to more cities
Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) Superintendent Drew Evans said US state would no longer be involved.
Sample of roughly 500 posts shows how frequently people are creating sexualized images with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot New research that samples X users prompting Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok demonstrates how frequently people are creating sexualized images with it. Nearly three-quarters of posts collected and analyzed by a PhD researcher at Dublin’s Trinity College were requests for nonconsensual images of real women or minors with items of clothing removed or added. The posts offer a new level of detail on how the images are generated and shared on X, with users coaching one another on prompts; suggesting iterations on Grok’s presentations of women in lingerie or swimsuits, or with areas of their body covered in semen; and asking Grok to remove outer clothing in replies to posts containing self-portraits by female users. Continue reading...
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump said deceased mother-of-three Renee Nicole Good was ‘obviously, a professional agitator’ in Truth Social post reacting to tragedy on streets of Minneapolis
Russia fired a powerful hypersonic missile at Ukraine near the EU border overnight, in what Kyiv called a new threat to European security that demanded a global response.
We’ve already geoengineered the planet through the careless release of greenhouse gases. Now we need a plan to manage the risks we’ve set in motion A few months ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene, then a Georgia representative, held a hearing on her bill to ban research on “geoengineering”, which refers to technological climate interventions, such as using reflective particles to reflect away sunlight. The hearing represented something of a first – a Republican raising alarm bells about human activity altering the health of the planet. Of course, for centuries, people have burned fossil fuels to power and feed society, emitting greenhouse gases that now overheat the planet. Unfortunately, her hearing waved past an urgent debate that policymakers are confronting around the world: after centuries of accidental fossil-fuel geoengineering, should we deliberately explore interventions to cool the planet and give the energy transition breathing room? Craig Segall is the former deputy executive officer and assistant chief counsel of the California Air Resources Board. He is also former senior vice-president of Evergreen Action and a longtime climate advocate. He has academic seats at the University of Edinburgh, New York University, and the University of California at Berkeley The opinions in this piece are his own. Baroness Bryony Worthington was created a life peer in 2011, giving her a seat in the UK’s House of Lords where she served as Shadow Energy Minister She has over 25 years of experience working on climate, energy and environmental policy in the NGO and public sectors, and in the private sector. Continue reading...
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused protesters of acting on behalf of U.S. President Donald Trump
As the conflict in Sudan passes the grim milestone of 1,000 days, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper writes that the same diplomatic energy that helped end the war in Gaza is needed to end the crisis
Fresh evidence has emerged that could explain the decades-long hostilities between Fulani herdsmen and the people of Agatu Local Government Area (LGA) in Benue State. Documents obtained exclusively by DAILY POST show that part of Agatu land was secretly ceded to Fulani herders in 2017, an act that some said has fueled persistent violence and […] Benue herders crisis: How Agatu land was secretly ceded to ‘Indigenous’ Fulani herdsmen [Documents]
Sir Keir Starmer indicated that Elon Musk’s social media platform could be blocked in the UK
Kyiv dismisses as ‘absurd’ Moscow’s attempt to portray missile launch as retaliation for supposed attempted drone strike on Putin residence Europe live – latest updates Russia’s military has said it fired its new hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a target in Ukraine during a massive overnight strike. Ukraine confirmed the attack, saying it took place in the west of the country near the European Union border. Moscow said the launch of the intermediate-range ballistic missile was retaliation for a supposed attempted Ukrainian drone attack on Vladimir Putin’s residence late last month – an allegation both Kyiv and Washington have said is false. Continue reading...