EUROPE AND USA

Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, faced beatings, electrocution mock executions and sexual humiliation in America’s notorious Guantanamo Bay prison Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, has never been convicted of any crime or even charged with any offence. Nevertheless, he spent 14 years of captivity in America’s notorious Guantanamo Bay prison, where he …

More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995. Survivors say history is being rewritten and war crimes celebrated Survivors of the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia Herzegovina 25 years ago say they are enduring a double-edged nightmare due to a growing local culture of …

Rights groups condemn decision to not extend this policy to diversity visa applicants, saying Biden ‘cemented Trump’s legacy of harm’ Most US visa applicants who were denied because of former President Donald Trump’s travel ban on 13 mostly Muslim-majority and African countries can now seek new decisions or submit new …

Turkish President Erdogan has an economic and strategic plan for Africa. Image: Facebook When Turkish-trained security forces cracked down hard on protesters in the Somali capital of Mogadishu last month, a spotlight was turned on the growing African entanglement of a new non-African player: Turkey. Troops from the Gorgor Special …

In the early stages of his candidacy, President Biden was emphatic. Under his administration, Saudi officials implicated in the operation that led to the grisly death of dissident Jamal Khashoggi should “pay the price,” Biden said during a Democratic debate, adding that his government would “make them in fact the pariah that …

As the Senate prepares to confirm Nuland for Under Secretary for Political Affairs, a reflection of her last 30 years in government shows how she was connected to nearly every foreign policy disaster undertaken by the United States. President Joe Biden’s nomination of Victoria Nuland for Under Secretary for Political …

Officials gathered to re-bury the remains of 126 people who died during Napoleon’s 1812 retreat. Re-enactors in period uniforms stand next to coffins containing remains of Russian and French soldiers during a burial ceremony in the western town of Vyazma. [Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP] 15 Feb 2021 The remains of French and …

“This is an important first step in ending our material support for war globally, and the genocide in Yemen in particular,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar. The Biden administration is reportedly imposing a temporary freeze on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and examining sales to the United Arab Emirates pending a …

The US public is fed a narrative that everything is “fundamentally wonderful” in the country, despite some hiccups; but in reality, serious problems plaguing the US are not acknowledged by the elites, Noam Chomsky told RT. The US likes to see itself as an inherently good force always trying to …

Those of us who grew up during the last years of the British Raj had little choice if we wanted a decent education but to go to Christian schools with such names as St Francis Xavier, run by Catholic priests. There, by the time we matriculated, we were brainwashed to …