(2025-09-22). UK mulls scrapping visa fees for top global talent: FT. tribune.com.pk 
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is exploring proposals to abolish some visa fees for top global talent at a time when the US has taken a tougher stance on immigration, the Financial Times reported on Monday. | Starmer's "global talent task force" is working on ideas to attract the world's best scientists, academics and digital experts to the UK in a bid to drive economic growth, the report said, citing people briefed on the discussions inside Number 10 and the Treasury. | The idea of cutting visa costs to zero is for people who have attended the world's top five universities or have won prestigious prizes,…
(2025-09-22). Report: ICE placed more than 10,000 people in solitary confinement. radiohc.cu A new report from the Physicians for Human Rights, the Peeler Immigration Lab, and Harvard Law School experts has found ICE placed more than 10,000 people in solitary confinement between April 2024 and May 2025, with the practice skyrocketing after Trump returned to office. | Immigrants, including those experiencing serious medical and mental health crises, are routinely placed in isolation for days, weeks and, in some cases, months, which the United Nations says amounts to torture. | [ SOURCE: DEMOCRACY NOW ]…
(2025-09-22). How can we defeat the far right? greenleft.org.au 
(2025-09-22). ICE crackdown in Michigan targets working class immigrants without criminal convictions. wsws.org Close to two-thirds of the more than 3,100 people Detroit ICE arrested from January to July had no convictions. Most had never been charged with a crime.
(2025-09-22). Over 150 lawyers, refugee NGOs in UK report being 'pressured into silence' by far-right protesters. tehrantimes.com More than 150 lawyers, human rights, refugee and environmental organizations have said they are being "pressured into silence" after some received rape and death threats from far-right and anti-migrant protesters, The Guardian reported.
(2025-09-22). Anti-immigrant "March for Australia" rallies were organised by neo-Nazis. wsws.org The revelation underscores the reactionary character of the forces being cultivated by the Australian political establishment, including the Labor government.
(2025-09-22). Italy strike disrupts transport as protesters demand sanctions on Israel. tehrantimes.com A strike in solidarity with the people of Gaza has caused disruptions across Italy, with long delays on intercity trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome and Milan, Al Jazeera reported.
(2025-09-22). Nepal launches inquiry into deadly anti-Corruption protest. tribune.com.pk 
Nepal's interim government, led by former Chief Justice Sushila Karki, has set up a panel to investigate the violence during anti-corruption protests this month that killed 74 people and forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to quit, a minister said on Monday. | The demonstrations, which began as a Gen-Z led movement against widespread corruption and a lack of jobs, escalated into the Himalayan nation's deadliest violence in decades. | More than 2,100 people were injured while protesters set fire to the main office complex that houses the prime minister's office, the Supreme Court and the parliament building a…
(2025-09-22). Nepal panel to probe violence during anti-graft protests that killed 74. geo.tv 
(2025-09-22). MIT Professor Cancels Israeli Military Grant After Student Pressure. theintercept.com 
Pro-Palestine student activists across the country have struggled to get their universities to respond to pressure for divestment from Israel and its military—industrial complex. | So when a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology withdrew from a grant from the Israeli military after hearing feedback from students protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, it was especially welcome news. | "This is one of the only cases where we know that student activism and public pressure led directly to an Israeli tie being cut, let alone a collaboration with its genocidal military," said Mila Halgren, a…
(2025-09-22). FERC and the EPA Continue to Lead in Climate Crisis Denial. indybay.org As they have for the past 11 years, climate change activists from Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) undertook their monthly protest on September 18 when they protested and picketed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters calling for them to be more than a rubber-stamp for new fossil fuel and pipeline projects.
(2025-09-22). Saturday 9/20: Sunnyvale: Protest. indybay.org Tesla dealership – sidewalk protest out in front | 750 E. El Camino Real | Sunnyvale, CA 94087…
(2025-09-22). Nationwide protest: Stand up for Gaza. greenleft.org.au 
(2025-09-22). More than 200 arrested after anticorruption protests in Philippines. aljazeera.com Thousands attended rallies in Manila over a corruption scandal linked to ghost flood control projects.
(2025-09-22). Major protests against corruption in the Philippines. wsws.org The emergence of corruption charges over the past four months is bound up with the political volatility of the Asia-Pacific region as it confronts the uncertainty and economic havoc of the Trump tariffs, and the mounting danger of war between the US and China.
(2025-09-22). The Death Penalty is the Wrong Response to Political Violence. counterpunch.org 
The US government should not kill Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin. State-sponsored murder won't stem the rising tide of political violence looming over all of us. And Utah is one of only five states in the US that allows execution by firing squad. Though rare, the prospect of the state shooting Mr. Robinson to death for the unspeakable act of doing the very same to Mr. Kirk threatens to inflame an already volatile political climate.
(2025-09-22). Why are there so many protests? The US public is highly polarized, and that drives people to act. |
(2025-09-22). Who recognises Palestinian state, who doesn't, and why does it matter. geo.tv 
Pro Palestine protesters with flags and banners during a demonstration in Madrid, Spain, September 14, 2025. —ReutersBritain, Australia, Canada and Portugal on Sunday recognised a Palestinian state after nearly two years of war in Gaza, with France, Belgium and other countries…
(2025-09-22). Police, arrests used to silence opposition to genocide at WSU. greenleft.org.au 
(2025-09-22). RU teachers suspend classes, exams; officers announce shutdown. jagonews24.com The Nationalist Teachers' Forum at Rajshahi University has decided to suspend all classes and examinations in protest against the assault on the Pro Vice-Chancellor and other faculty members.
(2025-09-22). Nepal: Protesters demand integrity, rights, rule of law. fidh.org
(2025-09-22). Sri Lankan power workers oppose government restructuring plans. wsws.org Around 10,000 workers joined the two-day protest in Colombo, opposing the government's pro-business restructuring of the electricity board.
(2025-09-22). PNG sovereignty threatened by 'defence' treaty with Australia. greenleft.org.au 
(2025-09-22). reason to arrest Judge orders release of anti-government protester at Likud event. haaretz.com A protester dressed as a Qatari sheikh was arrested after throwing fake banknotes at Likud lawmaker Eli Dallal during a party event, referencing the ongoing Qatargate investigations involving Netanyahu's aides. Police had requested to extend his detention, but the judge refused…
(2025-09-22). must a mother beg wife just to speak with. haaretz.com Gadi Amichai, nephew of slain hostage Oded Lifshitz, says his anger has grown as barriers separate protesting hostage families from the prime minister's Jerusalem residence, reflecting the Netanyahu family's cold-heartedness and disconnect from Israelis…