Extremism: Human rights abuses like seeing a father arrested or brother taken away by military forces feed radicalism
A lack of job opportunities is the leading factor driving people to join fast-growing violent extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report released by the UN Development Programme. The report titled Journey to Extremism in Africa: Pathways to Recruitment and Disengagement, underscores the importance of economic factors...
War anniversary: Russia launches 17 missile attacks in Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia cities
Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure in the cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia on Friday morning as Ukrainian officials said a long-awaited Russian offensive was under way in the east. At least 17 missiles hit the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia in an hour, acting mayor Anatolii Kurtiev...
Lucky to be alive! Earthquakes trigger traumatic memories for survivors in Türkiye and Syria
“The way the floor began shaking under my feet made me think I was back in Syria,” photographer Abdulsalam Jarroud, 24, a Syrian refugee originally from Idlib, says of the moment a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep on February 6. “It re-awakened traumatic memories I’ve been...
Broken bones, eye trauma, brain injuries – how America’s sketchy ‘less-lethal’ weapons export violence abroad
A crowd of protesters was squaring off against a battalion of riot police on a city boulevard as plumes of tear gas and dust clouded the afternoon light. It could have been Hong Kong or Santiago in 2019, Minneapolis or Portland in the summer of 2020, Tehran or Shanghai in...
Zoom boom doom: Big Tech layoffs after making a killing when Covid pandemic ravaged the world
Layoffs continue to hit the tech industry, and this week they came for one of the pandemic’s biggest winners: Zoom. Yesterday, the video conferencing platform cut 15 per cent of its staff or about 1,300 people. That came after Zoom had tripled its head count in two years. “We didn’t...
