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Just Stop Oil condemned by Sunak and Starmer after Stonehenge protest

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer were united in condemnation of Just Stop Oil after activists targeted Stonehenge with orange powder paint. The UK prime minister described it as a “disgraceful act of vandalism” while the Labour leader branded the group “pathetic”. Members tried to intervene, struggling with the campaigners – named by the group […]

Racially motivated attack on young girls in Germany condemned

There has been condemnation of an attack in northern Germany that resulted in a Ghanaian girl and her father being injured. According to initial police findings, an 8-year-old Ghanaian girl and her 10-year-old sister were attacked by a group of around 20 teenagers and young adults. The attack took place on Friday evening in the […]

Argentina condemned 30 years after attack on Jewish community

Three decades after hundreds of people were killed and injured in the bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, an international court on Friday condemned the Argentinian state for its actions before and after the attack. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that the authorities had neither taken measures to prevent the […]

House speaker condemned for remarks on pro-Palestine student protests

Progressive activists have condemned Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House of Representatives, for “willfully spreading misinformation” and “inciting violence” in a TV interview about student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza. Johnson, who was booed and heckled during a press conference at Columbia University on Wednesday, when he said Hamas “backed” the protests in […]

NBC condemned by top US historian over role for Ronna McDaniel

The Republican National Committee chair turned NBC politics analyst Ronna McDaniel “tried to disassemble our democracy” by supporting Donald Trump’s electoral fraud lies and should not be given such a media role, a leading historian said amid uproar over the appointment. “What NBC has done is they’ve invited into what should be a normal framework […]