11. After Britain abolished the slave trade, colonial powers replaced it with the “coolie” system, shipping more than 2 million Chinese and Indian workers to plantations worldwide under conditions abolitionists called “a new system of slavery.” After Britain abolished the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 and slavery itself in 1833, plantation owners across the colonial … Read more
Journalist Chris Hedges speaks to Marc Lamont Hill on Trump’s first year and the future of US democracy. One year into Donald Trump’s return to office, a wave of hardline actions – from volatile ICE raids to growing concern over political pressure on the media – has raised alarm about the expansion of the president’s … Read more
BANGKOK — An American man and his teenage son died last month after they were swarmed by wasps while ziplining at an adventure camp in Laos and stung many dozens of times, a hospital official said Thursday. Dan Owen, the director of an international school in neighboring Vietnam, and his son Cooper were attacked by … Read more
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Hope you like cats! There are more than 1,000 of them on this campus. About 1,200 actually, although it’s impossible for the staff to count them all because … cats. About 30 years ago, … Read more
American man stabbed while saving harassed women in Germany | The Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Post/World News Police arrested, and later reportedly released, a Syrian national as searches continue for the second suspect. German police conduct random checks at the German-Swiss border for vehicles coming from Switzerland, in Weil am Rhein, Germany, May 16, 2025. (photo … Read more
An American teenager has been detained on an Antarctic island, creating a major delay in his attempt to fly his small plane to every continent that is being followed online by more than a million people. Chilean authorities stopped Ethan Guo, 19, after he submitted a false flight plan, according to the BBC’s US partner … Read more
Three American women were found dead over the weekend in a beach resort in Belize, police said Monday, and officials were investigating the deaths as possible drug overdoses. Belize police identified the women as 23-year-old Kaoutar Naqqad, 24-year-old Imane Mallah and 26-year-old Wafae El-Arar, who were staying at the Royal Kahal Beach Resort. They didn’t … Read more
Donald Trump has been sworn in for a second term as president of the United States in Washington, DC. Trump used his inaugural address to reiterate his grievances against his political opponents, saying he would “liberate” the country from a “radical and corrupt establishment”. Declaring that government faces a “crisis of trust”, Trump pledged in his … Read more
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — About 150 military police officers from Central America have arrived in Haiti to reinforce the embattled government’s fight against violent gangs that have upended daily life for millions in the Caribbean country. The deployment of around 75 security officers, mostly from Guatemala, was greeted Saturday at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in … Read more
Eugene Spector, a US citizen born in Russia, has been sentenced to 15 years in a maximum security Russian penal colony. Russia’s FSB security service has said a US citizen sentenced to a 15-year jail term this week was found guilty of leaking biotechnology secrets to the United States. In a statement on Friday, FSB … Read more