War-wrecked Sudan ‘s humanitarian crisis is at “a catastrophic breaking point” amid fighting and devastating flooding, the U.N. migration agency said Monday, ahead of peace talks planned for later this week. The talks face uncertainty as Sudan’s military has yet to confirm its participation in the meeting in Switzerland brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. The northeastern African nation plunged into chaos in April last year when tensions between the military and a...

Sudan has reached a "catastrophic breaking point" as ongoing conflict and devastating floods ravage the nation, according to the United Nations' migration agency on Monday. Over the past 16-months, Sudan's civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has had devastating humanitarian impacts. According to the U.N., nearly 10.7 million people have been internally displaced and upwards of 14,000 people have been killed. According to the...

A federal judge in Chicago handed anti-Israel protest groups a loss this week, rejecting their request for more space to protest the Gaza counteroffensive outside the Democratic National Convention next week. Four groups seeking to organize protests – the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the Anti-War Committee, Students for a Democratic Society at UIC, and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network – asked for parade permits giving them authorization to march over an expanded area...

Voters in battleground Pennsylvania aren't buying Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s promise to not ban fracking, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The last time Harris ran for president, in 2019, she was a vocal advocate of outlawing the practice, saying, "There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking" during a CNN town hall. As a senator, she also sponsored the Green New Deal, which includes a ban on fracking. Harris’s new campaign, without explaining the candidate’...

Only a ceasefire deal in Gaza stemming from hoped-for talks this week would hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on its soil, three senior Iranian officials said. Iran has vowed a severe response to Haniyeh's killing, which took place as he visited Tehran late last month and which it blamed on Israel. Israel has neither confirmed or denied its involvement. The U.S. Navy has deployed ...

Whether it translates into longer-lasting political and social solidarity remains to be seen. Although the protest movement fizzled after only a few days, observers say the solidarity it forged across religious, ethnic, and political fault lines in places like Jos has potential to outlive the demonstrations themselves. A shared distrust of the government – whether in Nigeria, Bangladesh , or Venezuela , where anti-government protests have also recently broken out among a wide range of citizens...

These days, journalist and former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum is a scathing critic of 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. But back in the early 2010s — even before he wrote his 2016 book "Hillbilly Elegy" — Trump's now-running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), was a blogger for Frum's FrumForum. And in those days, Vance championed a more traditional conservatism and had yet to become the MAGA firebrand he is today. In an article published by Politico on August 13, journalist...

A Harris campaign official said the photo was "not modified by AI in any way." Trump falsely claims Harris' campaign used AI to alter photo of crowd size In a social media post on Sunday, former President Donald Trump falsely accused Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign of using artificial intelligence to fabricate crowds a campaign rally in Michigan last week. The picture referenced by Trump shows a large crowd waiting to see Harris speak at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Aug. 7 A...

Sudan’s brutal civil war has pushed parts of the country into famine, marking the world’s most severe hunger crisis for seven years, according to an independent panel of experts. The ruling that Sudan’s deepening hunger crisis meets the technical definition of a famine is the first time such conditions have been formally declared worldwide since 2017. Analysis by the Famine Review Committee (FRC) of experts found the 15-month long war had pushed parts of north Darfur, particularly the...

When polarization starts to feel like a defining characteristic of humanity, sometimes we need a reminder that people really are capable of coming together as one.Watching a stadium full of Green Day concertgoers bust out their best "Bohemian Rhapsody" when it came over the loudspeakers is just such a reminder.As the person who uploaded the concert footage to Reddit noted: "For almost 6 minutes, the equivalent of a small city sang, with one voice, the beautiful song of a man who has been dead for decades. If you can do this, you're not just a famous person, you're a legend."What could be more palette-cleansing than hearing thousands of people breaking into song together for an entire six minutes? What's more unifying than a piece of music being so beloved and well-known that a whole stadium knows every note and word and sings it in unison with all their heart?via GIPHYAs one commenter on Reddit wrote, "Ever notice how one crowd singing together always sound the same as other crowds, as in has the same tambre [sic] and sound quality? It's like the recognizable and familiar voice of humanity. Regardless of how different the people in the crowd are, the crowd always sounds the same. I think the idea that we are listening to humanity's voice when hearing a crowd sing is a beautiful concept."Listen to the voice of humanity. It's truly a beautiful thing.This article originally appeared on 03.03.20