A United Nations resolution recognising the transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity has bolstered Namibian calls for justice regarding colonial-era genocide and reparations. Local subject experts say the vote is significant, not only for countries directly tied to the slave trade, but also for Namibia, where the effects of colonial violence, dispossession and…
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The United Nations General Assembly is due to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would designate the transatlantic African slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”, a move that supporters describe as both historic and essential to global healing. Backed strongly by African nations, the initiative at the UN seeks not only to…
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffires (D-NY) speaks at a press conference on the government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 8, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Congressional Democrats will force a vote on a war powers resolution relating to Iran next week, Democratic leadership announced Thursday, as President Donald…
Nahid Islam was just 26 when he stepped up to a microphone at Dhaka’s Shaheed Minar, a national monument, on August 3, 2024, and uttered a single rallying cry: “Hasina must go.” Student-led demonstrations had begun weeks earlier over a government job quota system that reserved a large share of coveted civil-service posts for special…
The couple bows to the House Oversight Committee’s demands after arguing for months that its subpoenas were invalid.
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify in a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Angel Ureña, a spokesperson for Bill Clinton, responded in a post Monday to a letter from House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., saying the Clintons had “negotiated in good faith”…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that she will not vote for Department of Homeland Security funding after the latest fatal shooting of an American by a federal agent in Minneapolis. “When they’re killing two constituents in my state, and they’re taking two-year-olds out of…
