Israeli aid airdrop injures Palestinians in north Gaza; Hamas condemns move | Israel-Palestine conflict News

At least 11 wounded when Israel drops aid pallets on tents for displaced people amid hunger crisis in Gaza. At least 11 Palestinians have been injured due to aid airdrops in northern... Read more »

Australian Labor government to expand police-state ASIO interrogation powers

This week, on the first business day of parliament after the May 3 election, the Albanese Labor government introduced legislation to make permanent and significantly expand the compulsory questioning powers of the... Read more »

Trump wades in on Thailand-Cambodia fighting during golf visit in Scotland | Border Disputes News

United States President Donald Trump says he has spoken with the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand in a bid to end their border fighting, on the second day of his golfing trip... Read more »

Chile’s perfect skies for stargazing under threat from giant chemical plant | Chile

In the Atacama desert, the driest non-polar region on Earth, the sky shines when the sun sets. Up in the arid hills 130km south of the Chilean city of Antofagasta, comets burn... Read more »

Teamsters headquarters reportedly hired neo-Nazi Peter Cytanovic earlier this year

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, January 3, 2024. [Photo: @Teamsters] The leadership of the Teamsters union recently hired Peter Cytanovic, a known neo-Nazi who participated prominently in the... Read more »

Volkswagen profits tumble as tariffs weigh on auto industry | Automotive Industry News

The carmaker joins Stellantis and GM in reporting hits to their profits as tariffs drive up costs for the industry. Volkswagen has reported $1.5bn in losses in the first half of the... Read more »

A cacti-smuggling case with a prickly end: the novel way courts are making poachers pay | Conservation

Chile’s Atacama desert is one of the driest places on Earth, a surprisingly cool environment, sucked clean of moisture by the cold ocean to the west. This arid, golden landscape is home... Read more »

From the archives: “Death of a steelworker” (February 19, 1973)

The World Socialist Web Site is reprinting below an article from February 19, 1973 on the death of Rick Hertzig, a steelworker who was horrifically killed on the job at a US... Read more »

Analysis: ‘Bomb first’ – Trump’s approach to war-making in his second term | Donald Trump News

Washington, DC – During the first six months of his second term, Donald Trump pushed the limits of US presidential power while aiming to reorient US foreign policy to “America First”. His first... Read more »

Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website | Global development

Every week, Bastián Barria ventures into the Atacama desert in northern Chile looking for items of discarded clothing in the sand. About half of the hundreds of garments he finds are in... Read more »