An American flag flies at half-staff outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Ash Lazarus Orr, a transgender plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Trump administration's policy that bans the use of the "X" marker used by nonbinary people on passports, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, March 24, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photos/Rodrique Ngowi, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Pre

Western media amplified Israel’s unverified claims of Hamas “mass rape” while downplaying documented Israeli sexual crimes. (Design: Palestine Chronicle) Western media amplified Israel’s unverified claims of Hamas “mass rape” while downplaying documented Israeli sexual crimes against Palestinians. On Monday, November 3, a group of Israeli soldiers stood outside the Supreme Court in West Jerusalem wearing black masks. They weren’t there to apologize; they were there to defend

A Sky News joint investigation with Sudan War Monitor and Lighthouse Reports reveals the harrowing fate of civilians and soldiers who fled Al Fashir in the hours after senior commanders and officers left the infantry division. Thousands who fled a key frontline city in Sudan's war as it fell to paramilitaries were targeted in killing fields around it by the group, after the military's top brass secured their own safe passage. Warning: Some readers may find content in this art

MEE can reveal new intelligence which led to ban on Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa game this week Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters at a Uefa Europa League match between their club and FC Midtjylland in Backa Topola, Serbia, on 23 October 2025 (Andrej Isakovic/AFP) Dutch police told their British counterparts that over 200 Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans who wreaked havoc in Amsterdam in November 2024 were "linked to the Israel  Defense Forces [IDF]", and that hund

YouGov poll reveals a large proportion of UK trans people are looking to emigrate within the next 10 years, with almost 40% of younger people considering a move abroad. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images A YouGov survey has revealed a devastating consequence of the UK’s hostile environment for trans people: an ongoing brain drain of trans talent. A startling 26% of trans adults living in the UK said they were either fairly likely or very likely to be living abroad within the n

Laura Murphy | Professor Laura Murphy says her academic freedom was traded for access to the Chinese student market China waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation directed at a UK university to get it to shut down sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses, documents seen by the BBC show. Sh effield Hallam University staff in China were threatened by individuals described by them as being from China's National Security Service who demanded the research being d

The attacks in two towns come a day after Israel threatened to escalate its assault on alleged Hezbollah targets. People gather at the site of an Israeli drone strike, which hit a vehicle in the southern Lebanese village of Doueir near the city of Nabatieh, on November 3, 2025 [Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP] Israeli attacks have killed two people and wounded seven others in southern Lebanon, a day after Israel threatened to escalate its assault on alleged Hezbollah targets. Lebanon’s Mi

Report warns that religious freedom is threatened in Armenia Yerevan, the capital of Armenia (Image: Getty) Religious freedom is under severe attack in the world’s oldest Christian country, according to a major new report on looming civil strife in Armenia . It accuses the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, of launching a ferocious assault on the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church. He has sought to overthrow its leader Catholicos Karekin II and has jailed its leading cle

Gaza’s youth are haunted by trauma amid uncertainty over ceasefire; over 80 percent suffer severe symptoms, psychologists warn. Gaza children's silent trauma: 80% of young people show signs of 'severe trauma' For many in Gaza, Israel’s genocidal war could never really end. Even if the fragile United States-brokered ceasefire were successful in halting deadly attacks on the besieged enclave, which it so far has not, loud booms would still echo in the minds of those Palestini

The alleged mass killings took place "in under 72 hours," researchers said. Paramilitary group RSF seizes control of key city in SudanAid agencies are warning that hundreds of thousands of people are in grave danger in Sudan’s Dafur region amid a brutal civil war, with reports of human rights abuses and civilian executions. LONDON -- Satellite images and verified videos paint a harrowing picture of door-to-door mass killings in the Darfur region of war-torn Sudan as the Rapid