Muridke, Pakistan – The roof of the constructing sagged dangerously, daylight peeked by means of a gap, whereas the bottom under was plagued by particles, and the doorways of the rooms had been blown in by the blast. This was India’s message to Pakistan, the result of certainly one of a sequence of missile strikes…
When the newly elected Pope Francis stepped onto the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica in 2013 to greet the gang, he joked that the cardinals had gone “to the tip of the world” – his native Argentina – to discover a new pontiff. Certainly, the conclave, surprised by the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, had…
Diu, India – Packing containers of sweets are being handed round as cheers and pleasure encompass Rajeshwari Rama’s brick home, insulated with tin sheets, within the Vanakbara village of Diu, a federally-controlled island alongside the India-Pakistan shoreline close to Gujarat state in western India. Rama’s family and associates are speaking on the high of their…
Serampore, India – It’s a heat morning in March, and 65-year-old Ashish Bandopadhyay has cycled the ten minutes from his residence to a tea store within the Chatra neighbourhood of Serampore, about 30km (19 miles) from Kolkata. Wearing a pastel pink polo shirt, Ashish takes cost of the store, declaring it’s his “flip” to run…
When she noticed the Trump signal within the yard, Camila knew she must be careful. It was February 2025, and Camila* had proven up at a house in North Texas to fulfill the brand new household for whom she would nanny. The 22-year-old school pupil doesn’t have authorized documentation, however that’s by no means been…
Fifty years after the autumn of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge insurgent military, the occasions of April 17, 1975 proceed to solid a protracted shadow over Cambodia and its political system. Rising from the bloodshed and chaos of the spreading conflict in neighbouring Vietnam, Pol Pot’s radical peasant motion rose up and defeated the…
Regardless of a ceasefire agreed upon in January, Israeli forces have resumed bombing Gaza. On March 19, a day after the bombing resumed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the newest air strikes, which have killed a whole bunch of individuals, had been “solely the start.” Eighteen months into Israel’s genocidal conflict on Gaza, greater than…
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Photos of outdated Damascus and Aleppo adorn the partitions of a modest restaurant tucked into Bole Michael, a working-class neighbourhood close to Addis Ababa’s worldwide airport. Chatter in Arabic and Amharic fills the air, mingling with the scorching of a grill roasting a large shawarma skewer and oil crackling round crunchy…
New Delhi, India – It was the month of Ramadan in 1974, and the northern metropolis of Lucknow, a hub of India’s Shia neighborhood, was on the boil. Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, a stalwart of India’s then-ruling Indian Nationwide Congress celebration, had taken over because the chief minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh, whose capital…
Divisions on the appropriate between those that consider in a worldwide system backed by US navy energy and others who see that system as a drain on US assets will not be new. That schism has continued for many years. The latter group, which has typically included ultra-nativist and racist figures, was pushed additional to…
