Getty Images There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the earth of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a war is currently raging. It may even be directly connected to the M23 rebel group that made global headlines this week. The tantalum within your device weighs less than half of the average garden pea but is essential for the efficient functioning of a smartphone, and almost all other so

The president met with the Israeli prime minister at the White House, meeting in person with another world leader for the first time since returning to power. President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at a news conference at the White House on Tuesday. [Eric Lee | The New York Times] Follow reactions to President Trump’s Gaza proposal . President Trump declared on Tuesday that the United States should seize control of Gaza and permanently displace the e

Armenia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) released its first annual report , qualifying the complex security environment and the matrix of threats that Armenia faces, with a conditional prediction that it is not anticipating large-scale war to be initiated by Azerbaijan. While the underlying basis of the FIS’ predictions remain consistent with the available data and predictive modeling, the report does not, however, preclude the high-probability of Baku initiating surgical

The genocide in Gaza portends the emergence of a dystopian world where the industrialized violence of the Global North is used to sustain its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth. Explore Gaza - by Mr. Fish Gaza is a wasteland of 50 million tons  of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from beneath the mountains of shattered concrete. There is no clean wat

Oxfam predicts there will be at least five trillionaires a decade from now. 204 new billionaires were minted in 2024, nearly four every...

AFP Myanmar’s military ramped up violence against civilians last year to unprecedented levels, inflicting the heaviest civilian death...

The State Board of Education approved the proposal in a push to eliminate “sanctuary schools.” "We're not going to allow sanctuary schools here in Oklahoma,” Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters told CNN Tuesday. | Sue Ogrocki/AP Oklahoma may require parents to report their immigration status when enrolling children in schools. “We’re not going to allow sanctuary schools here in Oklahoma,” Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters told CNN’s Brianna Keila

President-elect Donald Trump visit's the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for their inaugural wreath-laying ceremony in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 19, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alicia Brand/released) President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants. The memorandum calls for the Defense and Homeland Security Departments to

[Getty Images] As we enter the new year, the future of the International Criminal Court (ICC) faces significant threats. Sanctions...

There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully A child amid buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza, 25 October 2023. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images F or the past week, Palestinians in Gaza have been returning to their homes , now mostly reduced to rubble – and to their dead who still lie beneath. It is only now that we will start to get a fuller picture of the true