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The United Nations announced on Monday that  close to $1.5 billion had been pledged by donor countries and organizations to combat the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan. The announcement comes as the country continues to grapple with a range of challenges, including conflict, displacement, and food insecurity. According to the UN, the funds will be used to provide critical aid ...

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny faces trial  where he will be tried on charges of extremism that carry the potential of keeping him in prison for several decades. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was charged with rehabilitating Nazi ideology, a charge which carries a potential sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Navalny has been a vocal critic of the ...

Over three years after a black US citizen George Floyd’s last words “Let me breath” become a rallying cry against racism in the United States, it has been revealed that the police in Minneapolis routinely use excessive force and and discriminate against black and Native American people. The Department of Justice’s report on the Minneapolis Police Department’s practices and patterns ...

A new report from the International Labour Organization reveals that nearly a third of domestic workers in Malaysia are working in forced labor conditions. The report cites a study carried out by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Walk Free Foundation, which found that many domestic workers in Malaysia are subjected to various forms of exploitation and abuse, including ...

A major earthquake  with a magnitude of 6.5 hit the Philippines on Thursday with tremors felt in Manila and several other nearby provinces. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), the earthquake measured 10 km on the Richter scale and was centered in [Mindoro island ] about 160 km South of the capital Manila. The earthquake lasted ...