Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87 bbc.in/4kgVU3C

At least 63 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7l7jlj

The Second World Summit for Social Development is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for governments and the UN to remedy the grievous social malaise and lead a global recommitment to social justice and equity ipsnews.net/2025/05/2025-w…

"One of the doctors said, 'Don't waste your time.' But I felt that she was still moving" | Dr. Mimi Syed, an American physician who volunteered to help treat Gazans, shares some of their stories with Haaretz haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…

Harold James and Marie-Louise James explain how world leaders have weaponized longing for the past—and warn that nostalgia often “becomes both the cause of problems and a coverup for them.” foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

#Gaza: a light through darkness with music. Despite multiple forced displacement, Ahmad continues to teach children #music to help them heal & overcome. “We sing for peace, we sing for life” he says. #ceasefire UN News 👇🎵 news.un.org/en/story/2025/…

The remains of 19 Black Americans whose skulls were taken to Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s to perform "racial pseudoscience" experiments, were brought to New Orleans to be properly memorialized, a repatriation committee said Thursday. abcnews.link/j2Fyula

To become the global power of its ambitions, India needs to resist the temptation to view the subcontinent as the totality of its security concerns, write Aparna Pande and Vinay Kaura. ow.ly/Mfu830sMUFf

Ukrainian delegation arrives in Istanbul for peace talks with Russia, whose delegation arrived in Turkish city overnight

Video footage shows 5-year-old Osama al-Ruqab wasting away from Israel’s forced starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. His mother pleas to get him specialised treatment abroad have been ignored.

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#BREAKING UN Security Council FAILS TO ADOPT draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and the release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups Voting results In favor: 14 Against: 1 (US)

China, Pakistan, France and Slovenia criticise the US' veto against the UN Security Council's Gaza ceasefire resolution, saying it prevents them from taking action trt.world/cxn5

One more legal scholar concludes Israel is committing the crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. We are 1000s of legal experts and humanitarian and human rights organisations, along with a few States that have reached this conclusion: it is genocide.

BREAKING: Judge blocks Donald Trump from banning Harvard University's international students from entering the US for now bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"We are sailing on international waters bringing humanitarian aid. If [Israel] stop this humanitarian aid, that is a crime," Greta Thunberg tells Eleni Giokos Ελένη Γιώκου, live from onboard a sailing boat headed for Gaza, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

“I still have shrapnel inside my body that they couldn’t remove.” Abed Al Rahman, 13, recounts to UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder what happened at an aid distribution point in Gaza. Humanitarian aid must be delivered with neutrality, independence and impartiality.

In battle of billionaire egos, Trump-Musk bromance was always doomed theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto…

At least 50 Palestinians were killed and roughly 100 more injured on the second day of Eid al Adha in Israeli air strikes and gunfire in several areas of Gaza. Attacks continued early morning of June 7, according to Palestinian sources

MARCH TO GAZA! Join the international call aimed at opening the Rafah crossing to allow the flow of life-saving aid into Gaza.