African Union launches initiative to build bankable mining sector

Rapid urban development is threatening the endangered dusky langur monkeys in the Malaysian state of Penang. But conservationists have now launched a project to protect them in their habitat. Kubra Akkoc has the report.

Pro-Palestine activists staged a protest on Thursday outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, which was hosting an “illegal Jerusalem real estate expo and settler fair” co-sponsored by Israeli organisation Nefesh...

“Just as a way of humiliating other prisoners, they would grab people, sometimes by the testicles” A US member of the Global Sumud Flotilla has recounted shocking sexual assaults and mistreatment in Israeli detention...