(2025-12-09). US slaps sanctions on Colombian network fighting in Sudan. newarab.com 
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a network it said was recruiting The moves come as fighting has intensified in the brutal conflict between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary
(2025-12-09). 'We should determine our own future': Interview with Sudanese Communist Party. peoplesworld.org 
MONTREAL—A brutal civil war is raging on the African continent in the nation of Sudan. The injection of illegal weapons and the jockeying of foreign powers for control over the country's gold and other resources only adds to the misery of colonialism's legacy and internal armed conflict. And suffering the worst of it all are …
(2025-12-09). Report reveals ongoing challenges for people living with HIV in SA. sanews.gov.za Report reveals ongoing challenges for people living with HIV in SA | The HIV Stigma Index 2.0 report launched on Wednesday reveals that, despite progress since the 2014 study, significant efforts are still needed to reduce stigma, improve healthcare experiences, and support the mental well-being of people living with HIV (PLHIV). | Today, the PLHIV sector, led by the National Association of People Living with HIV and AIDS (NAPWA), unveiled the HIV Stigma Index 2.0 report. | This comprehensive study measures and documents the stigma, discrimination, and rights violations faced by PLHIV in South Africa. | Conducte…
(2025-12-09). US: Other Countries Should Push Back on Lawless Executions at Sea. hrw.org Click to expand Image | A combination image shows two screen captures from a footage posted on the X account of The White House on September 15, 2025, of what US President Donald Trump said was a military strike on a Venezuelan drug cartel vessel, the second such strike carried out against an alleged drug boat in recent weeks. | © 2025 The White House/Handout via Reuters…
(2025-12-09). Tories panic over trade union bill shows it's desperately needed. thecanary.co 
Employers will now be required to inform employees of their right to join a trade union under the new Employment Rights Bill. Significantly, Whitehall will provide an approved statement for bosses to hand to workers, in order to prevent hostile employers from attempting to discourage union membership. As a quick demonstration of what such a […] | By
(2025-12-09). Tunisia: Prominent Activists Held in 'Conspiracy Case'. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Left to right: Ahmed Nejib Chebbi © Private; Chaima Issa © Private; Ayachi Hammami © Private. | (Beirut) — Tunisian authorities have arrested three prominent activists in recent weeks after their unjust convictions in a sham trial on charges of conspiracy and terrorism, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately overturn their unjust convictions and release all those detained. On November 27, 2025, a Tunis Appeal Court sentenced 34 defendants in the politically motivated "Conspiracy Case," including political opponents, activists, and lawyers…
(2025-12-09). Martín Mosquera: The Meaning of Milei. newleftreview.org With Latin America in Trump's cross-hairs, a report from Buenos Aires on the social stalemate that allowed far-right firebrand Javier Milei to impose the harshest shock therapy in Argentina's history. Mosquera mobilizes the conceptual legacies of Gramsci, Trotsky, Otto Bauer and Angelo Tasca to identify the function of the region's highly successful new rights.
(2025-12-09). NEP 2020 and Silent Erosion of Minority Rights. ummid.com The National Education Policy 2020 represents a quiet and comprehensive restructuring of Higher Education that never once acknowledges the existence of constitutional Minority Rights.
(2025-12-09). New Japanese Espionage Law Would Need to Respect Rights. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (R) answers questions from the House of Representatives budget committee in Tokyo, November 7, 2025. | © 2025 Kyodo via AP Photo | During a parliamentary session on November 26, 2025, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said that her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government would soon consider new legislation on "spy prevention." Takaichi's pledge to "speedily draft" such a law and her party's past legislative efforts raise serious concerns that the new legislation would endanger free speech rights, media freedom, and the protection of whi…
(2025-12-09). UAE: Emirati Dissident Faces Risk of Torture at Home. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Jasem al-Shamsi. | © Private | (Beirut) —The detention of an Emirati dissident in Syria raises serious concerns that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will pressure Syrian authorities to extradite him, Human Rights Watch said today. An informed source told Human Rights Watch that Syrian authorities detained Jasem al-Shamsi, 55, at a checkpoint in the Damascus countryside on November 6, 2025, and have held him since without disclosing the legal basis for his detention. The UAE has pressed Lebanon and Jordan to return dissidents in recent years. If returned, al-Shamsi will be at s…
(2025-12-09). Activists renew pressure on German govt over stranded Afghans. newarab.com 
More than 250 human rights groups and other NGOs on Tuesday renewed pressure on the German government to take in hundreds of The organisations, including Amnesty International, Save the Children, Human Rights Watch and church groups, urged the government to bring the roughly 1,800 Afghans to Germany from Pakistan before the end of the year. | Those affected must be evacuated in the coming weeks to protect them from deportation back to Afghanistan…
(2025-12-09). An Eastern European Woman Should Lead the UN. passblue.com 
When I ran for secretary-general of the United Nations in 2016, I believed that everything the organization stood for was becoming increasingly more important. I believed that multilateralism, preventing wars, political equality, international law, human rights, freedom from hunger, fear and authoritarianism, even old-fashioned empathy, would in the immediate future need to not only progress …
(2025-12-09). GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE: Refrigerants Are No Global Warming Threat. wattsupwiththat.com (T)he selection of the refrigerants for air conditioning systems should be based on both the safety and the needs of the consumers, rather than on a purported environmental benefit."
(2025-12-09). UN Warns UK—Mauritius Deal Risks Violating Chagossians' Rights and Blocking Return. devdiscourse.com The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has raised serious alarm over a new bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius, warning that the deal—intended to resolve the status of the Chagos Archipelago—may instead entrench decades-long human rights violations against the Chagossian people.
(2025-12-09). YouTube and big tech censorship threatens global accountability, Palestinian rights groups say. mondoweiss.net 
After the U.S. imposed sanctions, YouTube took down over 700 videos from prominent Palestinian human rights groups. Rights advocates say this censorship goes beyond Palestine and affects the future of international justice and accountability.
(2025-12-09). Brazilians take to the streets calling attention to a crisis of violence against women. globalvoices.org Marches were organized in several cities after a number of cases linked to hatred against womenGlobal VoicesWoman holding a sign reading 'Stop killing us,' during a march in Brasília, Brazil's capital, denouncing violence against women. Thousands of women
(2025-12-09). Another US-Backed Coup Attempt Is Underway In Honduras. popularresistance.org On November 30, six million Hondurans voted in their presidential election. One week later, the outcome of the election has not yet been announced due to credible allegations of fraud and illegal interference by the Trump administration, which includes threats of ending remittances from the United States that account for 25% of Hondura's GDP. Clearing the FOG speaks with Camila Escalante of Press TV and a founder of Kawsachun News who has covered Latin America for nearly ten years. Escalante provides background to the current political crisis and explains what is known so far about the election. She describes sim…
(2025-12-09). Con 470 niños en el sistema de acogida de Delaware, los adolescentes son los que más tiempo esperan un hogar y muchos cumplen años sin estabilidad. whyy.org Mientras el sistema de acogida de Delaware se extiende a tres condados, una crisis silenciosa se desata en hogares, juzgados, hospitales y oficinas estatales. Bebés sin un nuevo hogar ingresan al sistema. Adolescentes permanecen en hogares temporales, esperando a que alguien los elija. Y para los jóvenes que superan la edad límite, la edad adulta comienza antes de que la estabilidad llegue. | En el centro hay un sistema que hace todo lo que puede (y aún no lo suficiente) a medida que crece la necesidad, especialm…
(2025-12-09). Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis Will Hit Hardest States That Cut Their Own Taxes. truthout.org This fall, Americans got to see what it's like to go without a safety net for the hungry. With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks and President Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program, a panic set in among the more than 40 million people who rely on it. Families skipped meals, and babies went unfed. Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to… |
(2025-12-09). Flint Residents Are Finally Going To Get Paid, But That Won't Repair The Ongoing Harm. newsone.com 
(2025-12-09). LIVE: Gaza's displaced brace for winter storm as Israel kills one. aljazeera.com Authorities warn incoming storm will affect hundreds of thousands living in tents, makeshift shelters in the Gaza Strip.
(2025-12-09). Israeli forces step up West Bank raids, target universities. newarab.com 
Israeli forces stepped up their Birzeit University, located in the town of Birzeit near Ramallah, was raided by
(2025-12-09). Israel killed nearly half of all journalists slain globally, new report confirms. tehrantimes.com A new report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Tuesday confirms that 67 journalists were killed worldwide between December 1, 2024, and December 1, 2025, nearly half of them in the Gaza Strip, where they were killed by Israeli forces.
(2025-12-09). UPDF Regrets Gulu City Fracas but Blames Kyagulanyi for "Defiance" plusnews.ug 
The Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) has acknowledged that the chaos that unfolded in Gulu City during the visit of National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu was "regrettable," but maintains that the incident resulted from what they described as the candidate's defiance of an agreed campaign route. On Monday, the Fourth Infantry …
(2025-12-09). Drones Linked to Gaza Operating Surveillance Flights Over US Cities. projectcensored.org In the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the US-based drone company Skydio provided more than one hundred surveillance drones to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In October 2025, Nate Bear reported for °Do Not Panic! that police stations across the United States are now monitoring…
(2025-12-09). Israeli forces raid two Palestinian universities in the West Bank, reports say. haaretz.com According to Birzeit University, north of Ramallah, forces forcefully entered the campus with armored personnel carriers and jeeps around 5.30 A.M. and handcuffed security personnel. Palestinian outlets reported that Israeli forces arrested five of the guards and closed all the campus entrances…
(2025-12-09). Cambodia: Seven civilians killed in Thai airstrikes. plenglish.com Phnom Penh, Dec 9 (Prensa Latina) The aggressive military operations by Thai forces in this nation have killed at least seven civilians and injured 20 others, National Defense Ministry Spokesperson Lieutenant General Maly Socheata denounced on Tuesday.
(2025-12-09). Israeli enemy forces blew up at dawn several houses in Wadi Al-Assafir of Khiam after infiltrating into the southern Lebanese border town: Al-Manar correspondent. english.almanar.com.lb
(2025-12-09). Witnesses Expose Internal Feuds in Kiggundu Killing. plusnews.ug 
Two protected witnesses who worked on transcribing audio recordings linked to the assassination of Major Muhammad Kiggundu on Monday delivered an extensive and emotional account before the International Crimes Division of the High Court, describing in detail the voices, arguments, threats, and ideological disputes captured in the materials they were given. Major Kiggundu and his …
(2025-12-09). Former Cuban minister Alejandro Gil Fernández sentenced for multiple crimes. radiohc.cu The Supreme People's Court (TSP) issued a statement on Monday, informing about the notification of sentences to Alejandro Miguel Gil Fernández, which, due to its importance, we are transmitting in its entirety: | Supreme People's Court Notifies Sentences to Defendant Alejandro Miguel Gil Fernández | The Supreme People's Court reports that on Monday, December 8, 2025, it notified the sentences in the criminal proceedings against the defendant Alejandro Miguel Gil Fernández. | The oral hearings took place between November 11 and 13, 2025, and between November 26 and 29. | In the first criminal case, he was found gu…
(2025-12-09). Garbage: Racist Shits 'R Us. commondreams.org 
Improbably, the White-Nationalist-In-Chief still plunges to lower, ranker, more nakedly racist depths as he tries to deflect from his failings, lies, naps and crimes. The fake Peace President's ugly apogee, topping murders at sea, banning
(2025-12-09). Hegseth's alleged war crime is the exact illegal order the 6 Democrats warned us about. nationofchange.org Have Trump and Hegseth endorsed the commission of war crimes?>
(2025-12-09). UK's MI5 protected IRA agent who committed murders, police report finds. aljazeera.com British security services allowed a top spy in the IRA to continue committing serious crimes, police report finds.
(2025-12-09). Mumia Abu-Jamal Support: RALLY TO MARK END OF WALK FROM PHILADELPHIA TO FRACKVILLE, PA TO HIGHLIGHT PRISON. wibailoutpeople.org 
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Website: http: //www.marchformumia.org RALLY TO MARK END OF WALK FROM PHILADELPHIA TO FRACKVILLE, PA TO HIGHLIGHT PRISON ABUSES AND TO FREE MUMIA "Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it's insane not to." — Mumia Abu- Jamal Frackville, PA — Starting at 11: 30am, Tuesday, Dec. 9, …
(2025-12-09). pay in Israeli journalist behind video of severe abuse of Palestinian detainee talks. haaretz.com Israel's Channel 12 News journalist Guy Peleg faces escalating threats and harassment since he published a video – handed over to him by the former Military Advocate General – of the extreme abuse at Sde Teiman…
(2025-12-09). DRC: New clashes leave at least 74 dead. plenglish.com Kinshasa, Dec 9 (Prensa Latina) The escalation of clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the past week, in the province of South Kivu, has left at least 74 dead and 83 wounded, mainly civilians, according to a United Nations report.
(2025-12-09). Three Syrian Civilians Wounded by Israeli Fire in Quneitra. news.antiwar.com Three Syrian civilians were reported wounded on Tuesday when Israeli troops opened fire on them from the newly established IDF checkpoint near Khan Arnabeh, in the northern part of the Quneitra Governorate. The checkpoint is set up outside the town, along the road to Ain Aisha, but Syrian state media reported that the troops fired …
(2025-12-09). Israel Escalates Airstrikes in Southern Lebanon, Hitting Multiple Towns. news.antiwar.com Amid growing concerns about the state of the ceasefire, Israel is continuing to not only attack Lebanon, but to escalate, with strikes on Tuesday hitting multiple towns in the Iqlim al-Tuffah region of southern Lebanon. As usual, Hezbollah was the pretext. Strikes targeted the towns of Jbaa, Azza and Roumine, with a number of civilian …
(2025-12-09). Cancillería de Cuba desmiente falsas informaciones con respecto a Venezuela. radiohc.cu La viceministra de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba, Josefina Vidal rechazó y desmintió este lunes informaciones de medios de prensa, sobre supuestos contactos entre funcionarios cubanos y del Gobierno de Estados Unidos para abordar asuntos internos relacionados con Venezuela. | Por su interés reproducimos estas declaraciones publicadas en el sitio oficial del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Minrex). | ´Las agresiones y las amenazas de guerra contra la hermana Venezuela han concitado un amplio rechazo internacional y al interior de EEUU. | En este contexto, sectores guerreristas estadounidenses recurren…
(2025-12-09). Wang Yi blasts Japan, says Takaichi 'exploits' Taiwan to 'threaten China militarily'. tehrantimes.com Attempts to pursue "Taiwan independence" mean splitting China's territory, and supporting "Taiwan independence" amounts to interference in China's internal affairs, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Beijing on Monday.
(2025-12-09). Support University of Michigan Early Childhood Educators' Fight for a Living Wage. wibailoutpeople.org 
UM Early Childhood Educators are some of the lowest paid employees at the University. They provide care for infants, toddlers, and early education for preschoolers of University of Michigan Medicine staff and faculty. In February of this year, they became one of nearly 100 represented job titles in the University Staff United's first official recognized …
(2025-12-09). Democracy Now! 2025-12-09 Tuesday. democracynow.org Headlines for December 09, 2025; "Merger Madness": Trump at Center of Rival Netflix-Paramount Bids for Warner Bros.; "Honor Our History": Trump Slammed for Ending Free National Park Entry on Juneteenth & MLK Day; Save Mumia's Eyesight: Supporters March to Prison to Demand Medical Care for Him & Aging Prisoners | Headlines for December 09, 2025; "Merger Madness": Trump at Center of Rival Netflix-Paramount Bids for Warner Bros.; "Honor Our History": Trump Slammed for Ending Free National Park Entry on Juneteenth & MLK Day; Save Mumia's Eyesight: Supporters M…
(2025-12-09). Independent Evaluation Finds that NDB's Energy Sector Financing Supported South Africa in Addressing National Energy Constraints. infobrics.org Since 2016, NDB has financed USD 972.8 million in South Africa's energy sector — adding approximately 1,600 MW of capacity, 7,500 GWh of annual supply and cutting 7.2 million tonnes of CO‚ÇÇ each year…
(2025-12-09). Kyagulanyi Urges Nakawa to Vote for Umbrella Candidates. plusnews.ug 
National Unity Platform's Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has urged Nakawa Division voters to look beyond party affiliations and support candidates who carry the party flag. As with his previous presidential campaigns in various parts of the country, Kyagulanyi encountered roadblocks and teargas on Monday during his journey from NUP's former party headquarters in Kamwokya to Nakawa …
(2025-12-09). The Taliban's Broken Promises Undermine Global Diplomacy. fairobserver.com Since the Taliban's August 2021 takeover of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, its interim government has repeatedly pledged many promises to the regional and international communities. However, despite receiving substantial financial and diplomatic support to facilitate the implementation of these agreements, the Taliban regime has failed to honor its obligations. Instead, it has continued to…
(2025-12-09). Why is Australia banning social media for teenagers? aljazeera.com Critics say new law is 'normalising surveillance' for young people and risks cutting them off from support networks.
(2025-12-09). The Washington Shooting and Trump's Ever-Ready Immigrant Card. moderndiplomacy.eu The recent shooting in Washington, D.C.—one that left members of the National Guard dead and wounded—could have been a moment when the entire country stopped, took a deep breath, and asked itself some painful but necessary questions. Why does this keep happening? Why do Americans keep dying in waves of gun violence that have no …