Covid-19 is ravaging through India, with official data reporting as many as half a million new infections per day, and over 4,000 deaths. These are likely to be an undercount. Furthermore, an associated black fungus condition has been reported and...
The Guardian – Giles Tremlett and Lisa O’Carroll / EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled EU citizens are being sent to immigration removal centres and held in airport detention rooms as the UK government’s “hostile environment”...
The Washington Post – Will Englund and Ellen Nakashima / Panic buying strikes Southeastern United States as shuttered pipeline resumes operations A sudden fuel shortage worsened across the eastern half of the United States on Wednesday after a...
Haaretz – Sam Sokol / Israel-Gaza conflict: how this escalation compares with previous rounds Hundreds of rockets were launched from Gaza at south and central Israel, and five people were killed after sustaining direct hits – in one of the...
The Washington Post – Steve Hendrix and Shira Rubin / Hamas and Israel exchange rocket fire following contentious ‘Jerusalem Day’ clashes Israeli airstrikes killed nine children and 15 others in Gaza on Monday, Palestinian officials said, after some...
Week 18 of 2021 has coincided with 9 May, marked as Europe Day in commemoration of the Schuman declaration. On this occasion, the Conference on the Future of Europe was officially launched in Strasbourg this year. This will last for a full year and...
Haaretz / From Tiktok to Temple Mount clashes: 28 days of violence in Jerusalem Hundreds of Palestinians were injured over the weekend as long-simmering tensions between Jews and Arabs boiled over in Jerusalem, leading to repeated clashes between...
The world keeps looking at India in horror. Covid-19 infections and deaths have spiralled fully out of control, hospitals are crumbling and, despite international aid, basic supplies are in shortage. Modi’s efforts to ignore the pandemic in order to...
