Turkey stand-up comic set for release after being convicted of insulting Erdoğan
An Istanbul court has convicted a popular comedian of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – and handed down a sentence of almost 19 months – but has ordered his release due to time served. It has also placed him under a travel ban, preventing him…
US deportations are triggering a ‘cascade’ of rights abuses, UN experts warn
US deportations of thousands of people to dozens of countries are «triggering a cascade of human rights violations», heightening the risk of abuses like torture, slavery and trafficking, UN experts warned Monday. Since President Donald Trump took office…
Ukraine: People escape historic Kyiv building hit by Russian drone
Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences has been hit by a Russian drone strike, killing one person and leaving three injured, according to city’s mayor Vitaliy Klitschko. Footage showed people leaning out of windows as they evacuated the…
Tigray TV station hit by drone as rebels advance in north Ethiopia
Authorities in Ethiopia are accusing outside forces of backing armed groups fighting the country’s troops in the north. Since last week, heavy clashes have been reported between government forces and the Tigray people’s liberation…
South Korea summons Ukraine envoy over North Korean prisoner-of-war row
South Korea has summoned Ukraine’s acting ambassador after President Volodymyr Zelensky last week announced his government had transferred two captured North Korean soldiers to Seoul. Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo lodged a formal complaint…
Hybrid warfare: The threat of Russia looms over the Mediterranean
Several countries across the Mediterranean have reportedly been informed by the CIA of a possible imminent Russian operation, according to an investigation published by Spanish daily El Mundo on September 24. American intelligence suggests the plan would…
French far right’s Jordan Bardella denies alleged 2013 anti-Semitic comments
French investigative website on Monday alleged in a report that far-right National Rally (RN) leader Jordan Bardella made anti-Semitic comments in writing in 2013, but the close ally of presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen denied the claims as «blatant…
Poll shows French far-right leader Marine Le Pen widening lead ahead of 2027 presidential vote
A new Toluna-Harris survey for French radio RTL and French television channel M6 published Monday showed that Marine Le Pen‘s far-right National Rally (RN) party was set to win around 35 to 36 percent in the first round of voting for France’s…
Plan for controversial Sydney data centre scrapped after push-back
Plans for a data centre which would have been built metres from people’s homes in a Sydney suburb have been scrapped following intense push-back by campaigners. The data centre was being developed by Goodman Group, Australia’s biggest…
Great Black Hope: Pursuit of belonging ‘becomes a kind of cancer that eats them from the inside out’
Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome award-winning author Rob Franklin, joining us to discuss Great Black Hope, his acclaimed debut novel exploring race, class, respectability and belonging. Franklin wanted to write about the worlds he had spent years…