This is the largest ever hunger strike in the country’s history and is being supported by common Bahrainis who have been staging protests in solidarity with the striking prisoners
10 Irish republican prisoners including 27-year-old Bobby Sands starved to death in 1981 at the HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland while on a hunger strike to protest the revoking of their status as political prisoners
A couple of delegations of US Congress persons and the US ambassador to Turkey paid illegal visits to areas held by anti-Assad forces on Sunday. Meanwhile, Israel conducted airstrikes inside Syria in recent days
Over 144,000 workers are set to strike on September 14 if negotiations with their employers, the car manufacturers General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford, fail. The union has already employed the tactic of practice pickets at auto plants in Detroit, Michigan and Louisville, Kentucky
The Tunisian president and several ministries announced plans to restrict social media and online content which is determined to be “harming the country’s interests”
Hisham Kassem faces charges of slander and verbal assault. He is the leader of the political group al-Tayar al-Hurr (the free current), formed in June this year, which plans to support an opposition presidential candidate against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in the upcoming elections next year
Prigozin, the founder of the Wagner paramilitary company, along with several top officials including its co-founder Dmitry Utkin and deputy head Valery Chekalov, were on board a flight that crashed in Russia’s Tver region
Protesters slammed the Fine Gael-Fianna Fail-Greens government for the decision to provide weapons training to Ukrainian army recruits and called for maintaining the traditional Irish policy of neutrality in international conflicts
The XIV Mercosur Anthropology Conference’s resolution also stated that the BDS movement “constitutes an important step towards a public debate aimed at challenging hegemonic discourses worldwide in different areas of economic and social life”
The report titled “The Scorching Divide” suggests that women from marginalized and poor backgrounds will be the worst affected by intensifying heat waves
UPS workers vote yes on the contract negotiated in July by an overwhelming majority, enshrining major victories
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has withheld allocations and payments worth 200 million Israeli shekels to Palestinian municipal councils. Residents of Palestinian-majority areas in Israel have been subject to decades of discrimination and marginalization
