This past week, Iranian protesters were labelled “terrorists” and “saboteurs” by the state. That rhetoric was accompanied by an internet blackout and a surge in violence, with the death toll still unclear. Simultaneously, tensions between the United States and Iran escalated, raising the stakes in what has become one of the most serious political upheavals … Read more
As el-Fasher is starved, Sudanese journalists struggle to report a war buried by blackouts and global neglect. El-Fasher, Sudan: a city besieged, starving and largely unseen. As journalists come under fire in Sudan, a lack of international media interest is helping to conceal one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Contributors:Hassan Berkia – JournalistKholood Khair … Read more
Authorities say Antonio Guiteras power plant shut down overnight, prompting collapse of national power grid. Cuba’s national power grid has collapsed again, leaving millions of people across the Caribbean island without electricity in the latest such failure in recent months. Authorities said the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, the country’s top electricity producer, shut … Read more
Less than a month after Hurricane Milton churned over the island of Cuba, the country has been struck by yet another powerful storm: Hurricane Rafael. Rafael made landfall on Wednesday as a formidable Category 3 storm, which qualifies it as a major hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. It lurched across the western province of Artemisa, … Read more