Protesters barricaded roads and burned tires in Zimbabwe鈥檚 capital, Harare, on January 14 after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a huge fuel price hike in a bid to stem a deepening economic crisis.
Cash shortages have plunged Zimbabwe鈥檚 economy into disarray, threatening widespread social unrest and undermining Mnangagwa鈥檚 efforts to win back foreign investors sidelined under his predecessor Robert Mugabe.
India was brought to a standstill for two days on January 8 and 9 as an estimated 200 million people nationwide took strike action against the right-wing government, .
Ten unions affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) called the action after Prime Minister Narendra Modi鈥檚 government rejected their 12-point charter of demands, which included a rise in the minimum wage and measures to boost the economy.
Garment manufacturers in聽Bangladesh agreed to raise workers鈥 pay, commerce minister Tipu Munshi said on January 13, urging people to return to work after a week of violent demonstrations, TeleSUR English .听
US president Donald Trump announced by tweet on December 19 his intention to withdraw US troops from聽Syria. This followed a phone call between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had often stated his intention to invade north-eastern聽Syria.听
Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe is a life-long Indigenous activist who among other things helped lead the successful campaign to save Nowa Nowa Gorge in East Gippsland. In the lead up to Invasion Day, Thorpe spoke with 3CR鈥檚 91自拍论坛 Radio presenter Jacob Andrewartha.
Bahraini refugee Hakeem Al-Araibi has been held in detention in Thailand since last November 27. He faces the terrifying prospect of being deported to the country where he was tortured.
When talking about climate change, it is assumed that the effects will only be seen 20 to 30 years from now. Some believe this means we have time 鈥 that we can afford to meander towards our so-called renewable energy and emission reduction 鈥渢argets鈥.
It seems the聽whole country is discussing聽pill testing. A simple harm reduction measure, pill testing enables someone to learn what is in drugs they intend to take, which may have been contaminated with potentially deadly substances, and gives them an opportunity to learn how to reduce the chance of any adverse effects of drug use.
When Donald Trump first announced he was running in the Republican primaries for the 2016 election, he signaled that his campaign would rely heavily on anti-Mexican racism, racism against all non-whites, anti-immigrant xenophobia and Islamophobia.
Part of this was his oft-repeated pledge to 鈥渂uild a wall鈥 between the US and Mexico to keep out immigrants from Central America and Mexico. He slandered these migrants as rapists, murderers, thieves, drug dealers, sex traffickers and more.
The brutal police attack on former Strathfield councillor turned full-time solo protester Danny Lim sparked a snap protest on January 13.
The New South Wales government is robbing communities of precious water by siphoning it off for cotton farms and coal and gas mines. It is doing so as the climate gets warmer and drought becomes more frequent.
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) condemned the Australian Fair Work Commission鈥檚 (FWC) decision at the end of last year in favour of US multinational Alcoa, saying on January 4 it would fight it.