442 miles. That is how far I drove round trip in a single day to exercise my right to vote in the 2026 midterm election. I traveled from Macon, Georgia, to Greenville, South Carolina, determined to make my voice heard. What I expected to be a straightforward trip home became an experience that reminded me [...]

UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said Wednesday that waiting for a new Israeli government to form is not an acceptable reason to delay winter supplies for Gaza. His statement came days after heavy rain flooded displacement sites across the Strip. Fletcher urged Israel to open all crossings and let aid groups operate. The UN says [...]

The UK Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled Tuesday that two provisions of Trinidad and Tobago’s Sexual Offences Act 1986 violate constitutional rights, as they criminalize private consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex. The committee, Trinidad and Tobago’s highest appellate court, allowed Jason Jones’s appeal and said it would hear further [...]

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned Tuesday that violence in northern Nigeria has driven nearly 64,000 people into Niger since the start of 2026, straining humanitarian services in communities already facing insecurity and food shortages. Several hundred Nigerians have also sought refuge in Benin. Niger hosts more than half a million refugees and asylum seekers, [...]

A US federal judge in Florida on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump’s defamation claim against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to proceed over a documentary that edited together portions of his January 6, 2021, speech. Judge Jeffrey Kuntz of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida dismissed Trump’s separate claim under the [...]

US federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced an eight-count indictment against three alleged Iranian-backed agents regarding what prosecutors called a foiled terrorist plot against a British air base housing US military personnel, RAF Fairford. The announcement notes that one of the operatives helped coordinate the plot while incarcerated in a New York jail. The indictment names [...]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned  Monday that tens of thousands of people who fled violence in Ethiopia and sought refuge in Kenya are experiencing acute food shortages alongside a lack of access to clean water and shelters. Based on a new assessment conducted in collaboration with the Kenyan government, the county government of [...]

The UN on Monday issued a warning in conjunction with a climate report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) indicating that extreme temperatures and weather events spurred from climate change will be exacerbated by this year’s El Niño and continue well into January and February of the next year. WMO’s report, titled the State of [...]

Amnesty International urged the governments of Haiti and El Salvador on Monday to ensure that Salvadoran military operations in Haiti comply with international human rights law. The concerns emerged after the UN confirmed that most Salvadoran troops recently deployed there operate outside the UN-authorized Gang Suppression Force (GSF). In a note on November 2, UN [...]