Israel has led the world in vaccinating its population against COVID-19. But it’s a different story for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Muslim girl sent home from school, told skirt is ‘too long’
A 12-year-old Muslim girl in the UK was sent home from school for wearing a skirt that was deemed “too long” and told to come back with a shorter skirt. The school is now threatening Siham Hamud’s...
House Democrats vote to invoke 25th amendment
The US House has passed a resolution that calls on the vice president to invoke the 25th Amendment, starting proceedings to remove President Trump from office.
Across America
Robert Ray reports from the centre of the US, looking at how people are moving ahead in 2021 as a new administration is about to take office
Trump’s administration are ‘Ku Klux Klan cowboys of the White House’ – Maduro
The Venezuelan president made a rather sharp annual address to the National Assembly in Caracas, calling President Donald Trump’s administration the ‘Ku Klux Klan cowboys of the White House.’...
Dozens denounce female inmate’s execution in Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana
Dozens rally in Terre Haute, Indiana, outside the penitentiary where Lisa Montgomery was put to death by lethal injection, becoming the first woman to be executed in the US since 1953.
