Relatives and survivors mourn after the onslaught at the stadium in Indonesia hospital
Etik sat cross-legged on the hospital floor, anxiously waiting for her daughter to regain consciousness after being involved in one of the deadliest stadium disasters in world football history. “It was her first time (at a game),” Etik said, fighting back tears outside the intensive care unit at Saiful Anwar Hospital in central eastern Indonesia’s […]
Ford pleads for new trial after $1.7 billion jury verdict in truck
Ford Motor Co f urged a Georgia court to start a new trial after a jury returned a $1.7 billion verdict against the automaker over a truck rollover accident that killed two people came to life. Ford claimed unfair disqualification from providing evidence showing the truck in question was safe, with a more robust […]
Ukraine is ‘not Nazi’, say Holocaust survivors Putin
Roman Gerstein, an 83-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, has a blunt response to the Kremlin’s justifications for its invasion: “There are no Nazis here.” For supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine’s alleged “genocide” of Russian speakers in the country’s eastern regions is comparable to Nazi Germany’s actions. And that, they argue, requires “denazification.” Gerstein has […]
Ukraine push slowed by rain, river and Russian holdouts
What had been a lightning push by Ukraine to drive Moscow forces out of eastern Kharkiv region slowed to a brutal mess on Saturday, stalled by heavy rain and Russian resistance. In the front-line town of Kupyansk, against the backdrop of constant shelling, a column of dark smoke rose over the Oskil River, which separates […]
Iranian demonstrations hit diaspora women
As Iranian women bare their heads and burn Islamic veils in repressed demonstrations across the country, hopes and emotions are also rising among people living abroad. Several people have died in protests that broke out after Iranian authorities announced the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on September 16. Amini, who hails from the northeastern province […]
Misinformation shrouds the horrors of Philippine martial law
American lawyer Thomas Jones still recalls the scars of Filipino torture victims he interviewed for Amnesty International in the country’s detention centers in 1975 during the rule of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. But Marcos, who oversaw widespread abuse and corruption during his 20-year tenure, denied the lawyer’s visit to the Philippines ever took place. […]
Russian torture claims to have ravaged eastern Ukraine
“On the second day they broke my arm,” Mykhailo Chindey recalls being interrogated by Russian soldiers. “One person held my hand and another hit my arm with a metal stick. They beat me for two hours almost every day. “At one point I lost consciousness. I lost a lot of blood. They hit my heels, […]
‘Miracle’ in Jordan as baby was pulled alive from collapsed building
Jordanian mother Israa Raed said she was indescribably happy on Thursday after rescue workers rescued her four-month-old daughter Malak from the rubble of a collapsed building in the capital Amman. “I knew it was her by her pink pajamas,” Israa Raed, 26, told AFP after waiting more than 24 hours for news of her only […]
The Egyptians are trying to reclaim their history
It’s one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century: British archaeologist Howard Carter inspecting Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus in 1922 while an Egyptian member of his team crouches in the shadows nearby. It’s also an apt metaphor for two centuries of Egyptology, full of tales of brilliant foreign explorers unraveling the mysteries of the pharaohs […]
40 years later, survivors recall the horror of the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon
Forty years after Christian militiamen massacred Palestinian refugees and Lebanese nationals in the country’s refugee camps in Sabra and Shatila, the horrors of the tragedy are still seared in the memories of survivors. Najib al-Khatib, whose father and ten other family members were killed in the massacre, still remembers the stench of the corpses. It […]
the heir of Rios Marielle Franco
Renata Souza calls it the most painful moment of her life: the day gunmen murdered her friend and fellow activist Marielle Franco, an outspoken black and LGBTQ rights activist whose murder sparked an outcry in Brazil and beyond. But four years later, Souza – who like Franco describes herself as “a black woman from the […]
Israel’s Response to the 1972 Munich Massacre
The killing of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics prompted Israel to turn to a strategy that has endured to this day: using secret agents abroad to assassinate its enemies. Ever since Mossad intelligence launched its Operation Wrath of God to hunt down high-level militants it blames for the Munich bloodbath, it has covertly […]