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🇺🇳🇸🇩 The UN says Sudan’s crisis is worsening as fighting spreads and displacement surges.

▪️The Secretary General’s personal envoy Ramtane Lamamra met SAF’s General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and other senior officials in Port Sudan, pressing the urgent need to protect civilians. He travels next to...
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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The Dublin City Council chief has insisted he was not pressured to scrap the renaming of Herzog Park by "national political figures" over the weekend.

But councillors have criticised the level of involvement from both the government and a senior civil servant.
www.thejournal.ie/herzog-park-...
Dublin councillors accuse Taoiseach of 'chilling political intimidation' after Herzog Park row
Independent councillors have sought an independent report on the Taoiseach’s intervention against their plan to change the park’s name.
www.thejournal.ie
December 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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#OtD 29 Nov 1947 the UN passed resolution 181 recommending partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Approved by the US, USSR and others, it gave 56% of land to the Jewish state despite Jews being only 32% of the population. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...
November 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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International Day of Solidarity with Palestine
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Concerns are being raised about children and teenagers being placed at risk due to potential exposure to predators via online video games.
jrnl.ie/6887350
Expert warns that 'no platform is safe' after teenager harassed by man she met on Roblox
Roblox is a free online cartoon game platform where kids can create games and play with people across the world.
jrnl.ie
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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As an autistic person, the only thing I want to know from @nature.com is why is the mum also a chair
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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#OtD 25 Nov 1940 a bomb exploded aboard the SS Patria planted by the Zionist paramilitary group Haganah, killing 267, mostly Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe. They were trying to stop Britain transporting the refugees from Palestine to Mauritius stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9777...
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The cost of food has risen by 37% in five years.

Meanwhile, Tesco’s operating profit jumped from £1.8bn in 2021 to £3.1bn in 2024/25, an increase of 72%.

Call it what it really is - GREEDFLATION.
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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"The 'ceasefire' is a diplomatic sham – a cover for the continuing extermination, displacement and erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and a distraction for the international public and the media."

#AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
No, there is no ceasefire in Gaza
Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not a ‘violation of the ceasefire'. It is a continuing genocide under diplomatic cover.
aje.io
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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The cruelty is a feature, not a bug.
And so it begins: client with a stamp 4 and severe mental health issues which limit his ability to work, tells me he’s afraid to claim any benefits because of potential impact on his naturalisation application #speirghorm
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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‘Liverpool went from having a single slave ship in 1709 to more than a hundred six decades later. By 1795 it controlled almost half of the European slave trade.’

John Kerrigan on Atlantic slavery:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The UK is a strongly pro-choice country with 86% of Britons wanting abortion to be legal in all or most cases. But the US anti-choice movement has been investing heavily into campaigns in Britain, and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party seems to be support the interference.
The worrying rise of US anti-abortion rhetoric is in full force - how deep is Reform UK's involvement?
Money is pouring into anti-abortion campaigns in Britain, and it seems Nigel Farage’s party isn’t pushing back…
www.cosmopolitan.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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‘Palestinians are told to wait for the next stage of the plan, while Israel’s gains become the baseline for the next round of negotiations. And the waiting never ends. Each phase is temporary, but every loss is permanent.’

Zinaida Miller on Gaza’s ‘Yellow Line’.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Zinaida Miller | Temporary Measures
The Yellow Line is supposed to be temporary, but history suggests otherwise. Under ostensibly transient arrangements,...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Refugees are not the enemy.
September 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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I live in (what I think I'm correct in saying is) the most diverse constituency in the whole country - Dublin Central, D1 - *and* I'm old enough to remember what this place was like before significant immigration, and the idea that immigration hasn't been good for this country is fucking laughable
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has found itself caught in the centre of a geopolitical power play, with bodies washing up on its beaches.

📩 Anushka Asthana reports from the Caribbean in our latest FourGround newsletter:
Inside Trump’s war on Venezuelan drug cartels as bodies wash up on Trinidad’s shores
The island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has found itself caught in the centre of a geopolitical power play, with bodies washing up on its beaches, writes Anushka Asthana.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Freed Palestinian child prisoners recount torture in Israeli custody
<article data-history-node-id="431557" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/freed-palestinian-child-prisoners-recount-torture-israeli-custody-2" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/freed-palestinian-child-prisoners-recount-torture-israeli-custody-2" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Freed Palestinian child prisoners recount&nbsp;torture in Israeli custody</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Three&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;teenagers released in a recent prisoner exchange were abducted by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli&nbsp;</a>soldiers&nbsp;while seeking aid and tortured in custody, a new report has revealed.</p> <p>In interviews conducted by the NGO Defense for Children Palestine (DCIP), Mohammad Nael Khamis al-Zoghbi, 17, Faris Ibrahim Faris Abu Jabal, 16, and Mahmoud Hani Mohammad al-Majayda, 17, described how they were abducted by Israeli forces near aid distribution points and transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp in southern Israel.&nbsp;</p> <p>They said they endured torture, beatings and starvation in Israeli custody. The trauma has left them unable to sleep, and they are plagued by night terrors and bed wetting.</p> <p>One of the boys said he felt his detention had "stripped away his childhood".</p> <p>Jabal, who was abducted along with his father while seeking aid near the Morag Corridor on 11 September, recalled being so badly beaten during his interrogation that his forehead “split open and required stitches”.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a aria-label="Freed Palestinian child prisoners recount&nbsp;torture in Israeli custody" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/prison-inside-me-freed-palestinian-child-prisoners-recount-torture-israeli-custody">Freed Palestinian child prisoners recount&nbsp;torture in Israeli custody</a></h3> </div> </div> </article>
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November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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UN warns West Bank faces biggest displacement crisis since 1967
<article data-history-node-id="431558" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-warns-west-bank-faces-biggest-displacement-crisis-1967" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-warns-west-bank-faces-biggest-displacement-crisis-1967" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UN warns West Bank faces biggest displacement crisis since 1967</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="322" data-start="244">UN warns of mass displacement across West Bank as Israeli violence intensifies</p> <ul> <li data-end="322" data-start="244"> <p>The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha0&nbsp;says the occupied West Bank is experiencing its worst displacement crisis in decades, driven by Israel’s demolitions, military raids and unchecked settler violence.</p> </li> <li data-end="322" data-start="244"> <p>More than 1,500 Palestinians have been forced from their homes this year because Israel withholds building permits that Palestinians say are practically impossible to obtain. About 1,000 were expelled from Area C and another 500 from occupied East Jerusalem.</p> </li> <li data-end="322" data-start="244"> <p>Satellite analysis shows roughly 1,460 structures destroyed or damaged in Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps during repeated Israeli assaults.</p> </li> <li data-end="322" data-start="244"> <p>Settler attacks linked to the olive harvest have surged. Since 1 October, Ocha has recorded 167 violent incidents targeting 87 Palestinian communities, as armed settlers act with the protection of Israeli forces.</p> </li> <li data-end="322" data-start="244"> <p>Israeli troops killed four Palestinians,&nbsp;three of them childre,&nbsp;between 4 and 10 November in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Since January, Israeli forces have killed 45 Palestinian children, nearly a quarter of all Palestinians killed in the territory this year.</p> </li> <li data-end="322" data-start="244"> <p>Ocha says Israel’s prolonged military operations in Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarem have triggered the largest and longest displacement crisis in the northern West Bank since 1967.</p> </li> <li data-end="322" data-start="244"> <p>Unrwa estimates that at least 31,919 Palestinian refugees have been driven from these camps and nearby neighbourhoods as Israeli forces continue large-scale incursions.</p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </article>
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November 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Last week, Trump:

- threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion.
- ordered all air traffic controllers back to work despite the government shutdown.
- claimed Democratic lawmakers are just rehashing the Epstein “hoax.”

Read the full list of harmful actions: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Freed Palestinian child prisoners recount torture in Israeli custody
<article data-history-node-id="431530" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/freed-palestinian-child-prisoners-recount-torture-israeli-custody-1" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/freed-palestinian-child-prisoners-recount-torture-israeli-custody-1" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Freed Palestinian child prisoners recount torture in Israeli custody</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Three&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;teenagers released in a recent prisoner exchange were abducted by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli&nbsp;</a>soldiers&nbsp;while seeking aid and tortured in custody, a new report has revealed.</p> <p>In interviews conducted by the NGO Defense for Children Palestine (DCIP), Mohammad Nael Khamis al-Zoghbi, 17, Faris Ibrahim Faris Abu Jabal, 16, and Mahmoud Hani Mohammad al-Majayda, 17, described how they were abducted by Israeli forces near aid distribution points and transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp in southern Israel.&nbsp;</p> <p>They said they endured torture, beatings and starvation in Israeli custody. The trauma has left them unable to sleep, and they are plagued by night terrors and bed wetting.</p> <p>One of the boys said he felt his detention had "stripped away his childhood".</p> <p>Jabal, who was abducted along with his father while seeking aid near the Morag Corridor on 11 September, recalled being so badly beaten during his interrogation that his forehead “split open and required stitches”.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a aria-label="Freed Palestinian child prisoners recount&nbsp;torture in Israeli custody" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/prison-inside-me-freed-palestinian-child-prisoners-recount-torture-israeli-custody">Freed Palestinian child prisoners recount&nbsp;torture in Israeli custody</a></h3> <p><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/israel-ofer-prison-january-2025-zain-jaafar-afp_0.jpg.jpg?itok=Jgop771X"></p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
November 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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⚡️NEW: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti speaks to Jeremy Scahill about competing UN Security Council resolutions on post-war Gaza governance

Dr. Barghouti, leader of the Palestinian National Initiative, warns the U.S.–Israeli draft is built to...

@jeremyscahill.com | Mustafa Barghouti (X: @MusafaBargou1)
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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“We don’t understand what the world is waiting for before allowing in thousands of tents and temporary homes… We renew our appeal for shelter for the 1000th time to all free people around the world: Gaza needs dignified shelter. Gaza needs housing...”
— Eyad Amawi, Gaza Humanitarian Coordinator
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM