In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up we look at a UK Court’s formal approval of the extradition of Julian Assange to the US pending a decision by the Home Office; casualties following the police repression of protests in Sri Lanka as the economic crisis spirals; President Alberto Fernandez’s announcement regarding Argentina’s intention to re-establish diplomatic ties with Venezuela; and the dismissal of the final disqualification case against presidential contender, and son of former dictator, Ferdinand Marcos Junior ahead of the upcoming election in the Philippines.
Month: April 2022
Categories World
NATO countries gear up to supply more weapons to Ukraine
Germany, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, and Romania are among the countries that have pledged the supply of more weapons to Ukraine. The US has already announced a billion dollars worth of arms supplies in a week
Categories United Kingdom
British court sanctions extradition of Julian Assange
The Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London passed the order sanctioning Julian Assange’s extradition to the US. The final decision will now be made by Home Secretary Priti Patel of the ruling Conservative government
Categories Ecuador
Ecuadorian feminist movements vow to continue struggle for unrestricte …
On April 16, a bill that allowed access to abortions when pregnancy was the result of rape was enacted into law in Ecuador. According to women’s rights movements, it actually limits access to abortion for rape survivors instead of guaranteeing the right
Categories Canada
Wet’suwet’en protesters face surveillance and harassment on Indige …
Traditional leaders and organizers of the Wet’suwet’en movement against Coastal GasLink have pointed out constant police incursions since March and heavy surveillance of protest sites
Categories World
Western-led globalization might end, but the new globalization might h …
The appetite around the world has increased for an alternative to Western globalization, but this does not necessarily mean deglobalization
Categories Saudi Arabia
Saudi fishermen go on strike protesting hike in fees, surcharges
Fishermen of the Gulf region’s biggest fish market in the eastern Saudi city of Qatif have demanded that the government immediately reverse the new surcharges
Categories Daily Round-up
Oxfam: COVID-19, inequality, rising food prices driving severe poverty …
In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up, we look at a report by Oxfam International on extreme poverty fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, global inequality and rising food prices; rising deaths among unhoused people across US cities in circumstances of aging, isolation and a lack of care; the persecution of a teachers’ union president, Mbongwa Dalmini, by police forces in Swaziland during a labor dispute in the public sector; and a key proposal passed by the lower house of Mexico’s congress to nationalize lithium reserves as part of a broader push by President AMLO to roll back private control over the energy sector.
Categories Israel | Palestine
Israel airforce bombs Gaza
The attack marks a further escalation in Israeli violence inside the occupied Palestinian territories. There have been repeated attacks on the Al-Aqsa mosque compound during the month of Ramadan by the Israel forces
Categories United States
Ruchell Magee: US prisoner, political thinker, rebel, and still fighti …
The longest held political prisoner in the US has been punished for decades for his participation in a modern day slave rebellion
Categories Swaziland
Anti-government protests gain momentum in Swaziland
On Tuesday, April 12, “Defiance actions’’ were organized by the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) across Swaziland. The date marks 49 years since King Sobhuza II, father of the current monarch, took absolute power in 1973. The key demand of the protests was an end to the absolute monarchy as well as the creation of a people’s government with a multiparty democracy and democratic ownership of the economy.
Categories World
Studying mutations across mammalian species sheds new light on ageing
Findings of a new study that compared the somatic mutations in multiple mammal species could shed new light on longstanding questions about the role of genetic changes in cancer and ageing
