President Trump’s policies spark protests in multiple U.S. cities on Labour Day

President Trump's policies spark protests in multiple U.S. cities on Labour Day

People participate in a Labour Day protest in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. on September 1, 2025. Protesters march through the streets in anticipation of DHS agents coming to Chicago to enforce immigration raids. | Photo Credit: Reuters Protesters took to the streets in multiple U.S. cities on Labour Day to criticize President Donald Trump and demand … Read more

Amnesty says Syrian government forces, allies behind 46 Druze ‘executions’

Amnesty says Syrian government forces, allies behind 46 Druze ‘executions’

A drone view of the city of Sweida, following renewed fighting between Bedouin fighters and Druze gunmen, despite an announced truce, in Syria, on July 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Amnesty International said Tuesday (September 2, 2025) that it had evidence of Syrian government personnel and affiliated forces executing 46 members of the Druze … Read more

Strikes across Gaza kill at least 31 as international scholars accuse Israel of genocide

Strikes across Gaza kill at least 31 as international scholars accuse Israel of genocide

Israel launched strikes across the Gaza Strip on Monday (September 1, 2025), killing at least 31 people as it presses ahead with a major offensive in the territory’s largest city, according to health officials. Leading genocide scholars, meanwhile, joined other rights groups in accusing Israel of genocide, allegations it vehemently rejects. Airstrikes and artillery shelling … Read more

Trump says he’s awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Trump says he’s awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Rudy Giuliani delivers remarks before Donald Trump rallies with supporters in Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S., on September 28, 2016. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday (September 1, 2025) he’s awarding former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, announcing the honour two days after his political ally was … Read more

Nestle sacks CEO over ‘undisclosed romantic relationship’ in office

Nestle sacks CEO over ‘undisclosed romantic relationship’ in office

Nestle CEO Laurent Freixe (left) and Nestle chairman Paul Bulcke (right) attend a general shareholders meeting of Swiss food giant Nestle in Ecublens, near Lausanne, on April 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Swiss food giant Nestle on Monday (September 1, 2025) dismissed Laurent Freixe as chief executive with immediate effect over an “undisclosed romantic … Read more

First Afghan families allowed into Germany from Pakistan

First Afghan families allowed into Germany from Pakistan

Afghan nationals board a bus as they arrived in Germany from Pakistan at Hannover Airport, after legal and diplomatic pressure pushed Germany to resume a scheme that allows the entry of vulnerable Afghans, in Hannover, Germany, September 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A group of 45 Afghans who fled the Taliban arrived in Germany … Read more

EU says von der Leyen’s plane GPS system was jammed, Russian interference suspected

EU says von der Leyen's plane GPS system was jammed, Russian interference suspected

President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a joint press conference with Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda at the Border Guard School near Lithuanian-Belarusian border, near the village Medininkai, east of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, on September 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP The GPS system of European Commission President Ursula von der … Read more

North Korean leader takes train to China for military parade

North Korean leader takes train to China for military parade

File image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Photo: KCNA via REUTERS North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Pyongyang by train on Monday to attend a military parade in China, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency said, the first time he will have taken part in a major multilateral diplomatic event. The reclusive leader, … Read more

China, Russia join Iran in rejecting European move to restore sanctions on Tehran

China, Russia join Iran in rejecting European move to restore sanctions on Tehran

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China , on September 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP UN Security Council permanent members China and Russia backed Iran on Monday in rejecting a move by European countries to reimpose UN sanctions on … Read more

Phones fall silent, fears rise as Afghans in Delhi await news from quake-hit homeland

Phones fall silent, fears rise as Afghans in Delhi await news from quake-hit homeland

Afghan nationals travel with their belongings in a truck, as they head back to Afghanistan after Pakistan started to deport documented Afghan refugees, near the Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sitting in their modest shops and small rented rooms in Delhi, Afghan migrants spent a … Read more