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Wife of jailed ex-leader of Northern Ireland's largest pro-UK party put on sex offenders register
Eleanor Donaldson, the wife of former Northern Ireland unionist leader Jeffrey Donaldson, has been placed on the sex offenders register for five years
Bus and truck collision in India's Assam state kills at least 24 people
A bus has collided with a container truck in Assam, India, killing at least 24 people and injuring 11 others
Charity-run kitchens in Havana feed a growing number of Cubans as crisis deepens
Hundreds of people line up each night outside a charity-run food pantry in Havana, hoping for their only meal of the day
Boxer on death row in Iran vows ‘not to bow before oppression’ after winning rights prize
Political prisoner Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, one of seven athletes at risk of execution in Iran, given prestigious Magnitsky humanitarian award A boxer and political prisoner on death row in Iran said he will “never surrender” as he accepted a prestigious human rights prize on behalf of “the generation that is paying the price of freedom with their lives”.Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, an Iranian boxing champion, coach and political prisoner, has been sentenced to death three times and is one of seven athletes at risk of execution in Iran. He was given the Magnitsky award for outstanding human rights activist at a ceremony in London on Thursday night. Continue reading...
Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it destroyed a US radar in Bahrain, and other Mideast news
Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it destroyed a U.S. early warning radar in Bahrain, marking the first such claim in months
Teen prodigy, Netflix star, prisoner: the story of Hong Kong dissident Joshua Wong – podcast
Pro-democracy activist Nathan Law and journalist Danny Vincent on the sentencing of the iconic Hong Kong campaigner Joshua Wong to another 10 years in prison. Send your comments and questions to [email protected] has been leading protests since he was 14. Joshua Wong has been on the cover of Time magazine, the focus of a Netflix documentary and an icon for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.Wong has been leading the fight against a Chinese squeeze on freedoms in Hong Kong for the last 15 years. He will now spend more than 16 years in prison. Continue reading...
Nov 12, 2026
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Alarming directive leaves Trump with 'impending choice' that risks certain ‘ruin’: expert
A new directive from Israel’s security cabinet has left President Donald Trump with an “impending choice that could restart the war with Iran,” international security expert Robert Pape warned on Thursday.According to the Turkish news outlet Anadolu Agency, Israel’s security cabinet — led by interim Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — instructed the Israeli military to “step up preparations for a possible attack on Iran.” Netanyahu, who’s pushed for the United States to attack Iran since at least the 1990s, has reportedly called Trump “every day,” urging him to resume attacks on Iran.Evidence exists that Trump would “have reasons” to make his decision by Jan. 3 before Democrats reclaim control of Congress, Pape argued in an analysis published on his Substack, with there being “three roads in this war” — and each one leading “to ruin.”“Washington is sending mixed signals. Rubio says major combat is no longer needed. Trump says he’s ready to return to war if Qatar’s talks fail, and Tehran says there are no talks,” Pape wrote. “So the decision falls to Trump. Will he let Netanyahu go, hold him back, or join in?”Meanwhile, Tehran is hardening its stance. Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s national security chief, has said there are no negotiations with the U.S. and that “not a single particle” of enriched uranium will leave the country.The war is now in its eighth month. Iran has continued to disrupt traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and the United States has maintained a naval blockade of Iranian ports while Qatari mediators push for a deal. A third U.S. aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, is due in the Arabian Sea this weekend, Pape noted.
Unhinged rant sees Trump abandon Iran deal — and give Vance a new job
In a major reversal, President Donald Trump appeared to abandon his pursuit of a diplomatic end to his war against Iran Thursday in a rant about Democrats’ “blood.”He also handed Vice President JD Vance a new assignment.As recently as Monday, Trump touted “positive momentum” toward a deal to end the war, which has been deeply unpopular with Americans since it began. In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, however, Trump declared “we don’t need a deal with Iran” anymore.“Those days have long since passed,” Trump wrote. “We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”Trump also revealed that he had instructed Vance to “focus” his “complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States,” claiming, without providing evidence, that “Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month.”“Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity,” Trump wrote, again without providing evidence. “CORRUPTION is in the Democrat Leadership’s blood!”Trump has spent much of his second term accusing Democratic-led states of fraud, using a real fraud scandal in Minnesota to go after others. His administration tried to freeze $10 billion in child care and social services funding for California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York before dropping the effort.
Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza cleared of using AI to write prize-winning story
After a month-long investigation it was concluded that Kundizeza’s story The Blue Fighter, which won the £10,000 Caine prize, was ‘human-written’The Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza has been cleared of using AI to write a prize-winning short story, after the prestigious Caine prize for African writers concluded that his entry was “human-written” after a month-long investigation.Kundizeza’s story The Blue Fighter, which charts the declining fortunes of a family after the father invests in fish tanks, was announced as the winner of the £10,000 prize on 6 October. Continue reading...
Trump drops major new threat on Mexico in furious tirade: 'There will be no leniency!'
President Donald Trump threatened to “IMMEDIATELY” double tariffs on Mexico unless it stops migrant caravans heading north, and blamed the caravans on Republicans’ “perceived loss” in last week’s midterms.“Here we go again! With the perceived loss by the Republicans in the Midterms - I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT- the INVASION of our Country is taking place again. Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.“MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED,” he added. “There will be no leniency!”Trump said that Mexico, Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and “THE VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF TEXAS” had been informed, a swipe at Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic Texas governor-elect who unseated Gov. Greg Abbott last week and has not yet taken office.A caravan of roughly 1,000 migrants entered southern Mexico on Nov. 6, according to Latin Times. Mexican authorities blocked a separate group of about 100 migrants on Nov. 10.
Two skulls likely belonging to enslaved people returned to Brazil after Harvard used them in eugenics studies
Remains believed to have belonged to Africans or Afro-Brazilians repatriated after being flown back by diplomats Two skulls, including that of a man believed to have taken part in Brazil’s greatest slave revolt but whose remains were taken to the United States and used in racist eugenics studies at Harvard University, were repatriated on Wednesday.The remains had been outside Brazil since the 19th century. One was taken about 190 years ago from Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia; the other, about 160 years ago, from Rio de Janeiro – and were welcomed back in moving, subdued ceremonies in both cities. Continue reading...
‘This country is a disgrace’: Veterans condemn Trump’s ‘criminal’ war in parade protest
Former U.S. Marine Bob Mash, 83, did not come to the Veterans Day Parade in New York City to be honored for his service — he came to protest the deaths of children.Mash, who fought in the Vietnam War, shouted over the sound of patriotic music and a roaring crowd to express his outrage with President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and those who support the deadly conflicts in Iran and Palestine."We're participating in genocide," Mash told Raw Story. "I love the people, and I love the country, but my government is criminal."Mash, a member of the group Veterans for Peace, said he and fellow vets felt honor-bound to protest the Trump administration's ongoing war in Iran that has claimed the lives of 23 Americans and thousands of Iranians.Those Iranian deaths include more than 270 children, according to Amnesty International.Meanwhile, the U.S. gives Israel roughly $4 billion a year, and the Trump administration is considering a plan to shift aid to Israel from the State Department to the Pentagon to facilitate future collaborations.The United Nations Human Rights Council revealed last month that it found evidence that Israeli forces had committed war crimes that include rape, torture and the deliberate killing of children."Giving Israel all that money to kill innocent women and children?" Mash said on Wednesday. "This country is a disgrace."Mash and his fellow veterans at the demonstration were surrounded by children who both came to watch the parade march up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and participate in it. A little girl watches the Veterans Day Parade in New York City on Nov. 11, 2026. Photo by Kathleen Culliton | Raw StoryMash watched alongside an old friend, a veteran of the Peace Corps who asked to be identified only as a concerned citizen, who also decried the killing of children in Palestine and Iran.The Peace Corps vet told Raw Story he served in Iran, a country of "beautiful people" who couldn't help that their rulers were "lunatics.""Resign, get the hell out of the country," was his message to Trump and Hegseth. "They are war criminals."While Mash and his friends' defiance took the form of outrage, another group further down Fifth Avenue challenged the Trump administration's rhetoric with music and dancing. There was music and dancing aboard the Haitian American Veterans Association float at the Veterans Day Parade in New York City on Nov. 11, 2026. Photo by Kathleen Culliton | Raw StoryThis was aboard the Haitian American Veterans Association float, whose occupants want the nation to know their citizens have risked their lives to protect the U.S. Haitians have been targeted for years by Trump, who notoriously campaigned on a mass deportation platform and supported it on the false claim that Haitian migrants were eating pets.Now his Department of Homeland Security is targeting Haitian migrants — some as young as 8 years old — who have lost their Temporary Protected Status under an immigration crackdown that sees them sent out of this country in chains. Hortense St. Preux told Raw Story on Wednesday that she came to remind the U.S. of the contributions her fellow Haitians have made to this country."It is hard for them to accept us — so it's easier to reject us," said St. Preux. "You call us illegal, but we still go to school. We work."She recalled with pride her nation's historic ouster of French enslavers during the Haitian Revolution from 1791 to 1804, 61 years before the U.S. ratified the 13th Amendment and abolished slavery."We taught them how to live free," she said.Haitian American Veterans Association founder Dr. Fritz Fils-Aime told Raw Story he felt it was imperative to attend the parade, considering the current political climate."We need to show we're part of the fabric of this country," said Fils-Aime. The Vietnam War veteran's message to Trump? "Leave our country alone." Haitian American Veterans Association founder Dr. Fritz Fils-Aime attends the Veterans Day Parade in New York City on Nov. 11, 2026. Photo by Kathleen Culliton | Raw Story Not all the veterans Raw Story spoke to wanted to discuss Trump. Laurent Lynch, 80, a Vietnam War veteran, refrained from discussing politics with Raw Story but said he wanted troops deployed abroad only to know, "We're behind them."Lynch said he was proud to have served in the U.S. Army as his father and brother had. When asked if he felt this Veterans Day was affected by the U.S. war with Iran, the vet said simply, "We're always getting into something." Laurent Lynch, 80, a Vietnam War veteran, attends the Veterans Day Parade in New York City on Nov. 11, 2026. Photo by Kathleen Culliton | Raw Story
