Farmers launch an indefinite strike in India’s Karnataka stateThe farmers and agricultural workers gathered in the capital from different parts of the state under the leadership of Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha affiliated with the left wing All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and other groups affiliated to All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU). They carried red flags and shouted slogans against corporate exploitation.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/11/farmers-launch-an-indefinite-strike-in-indias-karnataka-state/China builds space alliances in Africa as Trump cuts foreign aidChina has forged nearly two-dozen pacts with African nations in its bid to surpass the U.S. in space. Investments in satellites and infrastructure are winning friends – and giving China more eyes on the skies – as America slashes help for developing countries.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-builds-space-alliances-africa-trump-cuts-foreign-aid-2025-02-11/Israel will resume war in Gaza unless more hostages freed this week, says NetanyahuNetanyahu’s ultimatum was delivered during a video address posted to social media account on Tuesday. “If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon – the ceasefire will end, and the IDF will return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated,” he said. It came a day after Trump told reporters: “If all the Gaza hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12pm, I would say cancel the ceasefire. Let all hell break loose.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/israel-will-resume-war-in-gaza-unless-all-hostages-freed-this-week-says-netanyahuTurkey detains more opposition members over alleged PKK ties, TRT saysAn Istanbul prosecutor ordered the detention of two deputy mayors and another seven municipal council members from nine districts in Turkey's largest city over alleged ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The prosecutor's office said in a statement that the detained municipal council members had been voted in as part of an electoral pact between the CHP and the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, which is parliament's third largest, according to TRT.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-detains-more-opposition-members-over-alleged-pkk-ties-trt-says-2025-02-11/As Ethiopia and Israel forge closer water cooperation, alarm bells ring in EgyptIt is also the latest in a series of cooperation agreements between Addis Ababa and Tel Aviv over the years, ones that do not make Egyptian observers exclude their expected negative toll on their country, especially with Egypt and Ethiopia locking horns over the Horn of Africa state's construction of a gigantic dam on the Blue Nile, the main tributary of the Nile River, Egypt's principal source of fresh water, and historical and current tensions between Egypt and Israel.
https://www.newarab.com/news/alarm-egypt-ethiopia-israel-forge-closer-water-ties'Long-Overdue' Trial to Begin After Decades of Shell Polluting Nigeria After years of delay tactics, Shell is set to go on trial in London this week over claims that hundreds of spills caused by the fossil fuel giant have destroyed Nigerian communities and violated their residents' rights to a clean and healthy environment. … .. . . . . .
https://www.commondreams.org/news/london-trial-shell-nigeriaCampaigner for migrants in Libya targeted in spyware attackAn Italy-based human rights activist whose work supports the international criminal court in providing evidence about cases of abuse suffered by migrants and refugees held in Libyan detention camps and prisons has revealed that Apple informed him his phone was targeted in a spyware attack
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/david-yambio-rights-activist-italy-phone-spyware‘Workers are being employed as indentured labour’Many workers, who are from countries including Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Zambia as well as India and the Philippines, were given no shifts when they arrived, or not the number promised. Around 18 per cent said employers had deducted money from their salaries since arriving, with firms claiming the fees were for expenses such as training and administration.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/workers-are-being-employed-as-indentured-labourA coffee for $3.50: Argentina is the most expensive country in Latin AmericaThe immediate consequence of the rise in prices in dollars is that the upper and middle classes use credit cards to buy everything they can online from overseas, now that Milei has reduced tariffs and facilitated the entry of products from abroad. The beaches of Brazil and Uruguay were crowded with Argentines last summer, fleeing the prices of the resorts in their own country; there were also long lines at immigration points in Chile or Paraguay to go shopping at the malls on the other side of the border.
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-02-11/a-coffee-for-350-argentina-is-the-most-expensive-country-in-latin-america.htmlhttps://archive.ph/PChj1Uribe lawyers abandon fraud and bribery trialThe court was supposed to continue hearing the prosecution’s first witness, Senator Ivan Cepeda, but was forced to suspend Tuesday’s proceedings. Uribe, who was connected via a video link, told the judge that his lawyers didn’t show up because they sought her removal and the suspension of the criminal proceedings before a higher court.
https://colombiareports.com/uribe-lawyers-abandon-fraud-and-bribery-trial/