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Cuba After Castro: New Documentary Features Exclusive Interview with Cuban President Díaz-Canel

BreakThrough News announces the New York City premiere of Cuba After Castro, a landmark documentary featuring the first and only interview Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has ever conducted with a U.S. journalist. The film will premiere on Wednesday, April 16,…

The Patience of the Species Is Running Out 1

“Deep exhaustion does not come from work, but from enduring the unbearable for too long.” A Planet Without Rest Psychiatry describes extreme fatigue as resulting from prolonged activation without the possibility of recovery. The organism does not collapse immediately; it…

Why Might China Have Pressed Iran To Compromise With The US?

The sequence that Trump threatened if no deal was reached before the expiry of his deadline would have cut China off from half of the oil that it imported by sea last year and likely set Afro-Eurasia aflame in resource…

The Universal Human Nation: The Emerging Social Myth at the Dawn of History’s First Planetary Civilization

It may be somewhat difficult, under the current circumstances, to believe in the possibility of a more humane civilization emerging. Wars, poverty, climate instability, discrimination, interpersonal violence, cruelty, and the discrediting of the ruling elites are obstacles that seem to…

First Impressions Of The Surprise US-Iranian Ceasefire

The victor only be confidently determined upon the conclusion of a peace deal based on the fate of Iran’s enriched uranium, nuclear program, missile program, oil exports to China, and the petroyuan. The US and Iran agreed to a two-week…

Humanity Above War: How Sri Lanka Responded to Injured Iranian Sailors Under Maritime Law

by Sherwin David In early March 2026, the Indian Ocean witnessed a dramatic humanitarian incident that brought together war, neutrality, and international maritime law. Off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, an Iranian naval ship was sunk during escalating conflict…

Bangladesh Launches Emergency Vaccination Campaign to Protect 1.2 Million Children from Measles Outbreak

By Rita Bhowmick (Dhaka Bureau) In a decisive move to combat a rising measles and rubella outbreak, the Government of Bangladesh, in collaboration with UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has launched a large-scale emergency…

Technological Revolution in Transport and Logistics Presents Long-Term Challenges

(Moscow Bureau) – Unbelievably, Russia is no longer at the geopolitical and economic crossroads. Kazan, the famous city in the autonomous Republic of Tatarstan, and St. Petersburg, known as the second largest city in the Russian Federation, for the past…

How we are (not) allowed to protest against the war in the only Middle Eastern democracy

We gathered yesterday evening to demonstrate against the war, against the American-backed Israeli aggression in Iran and the invasion of Lebanon, against the ongoing oppression and murder in the West Bank and Gaza. This is the fifth week in a…

EcoWaste Coalition Calls on Pakistan to Put an End to the Illegal Production and Trade of Mercury-Added Cosmetics

Group reveals toxic mercury up to 33,970 ppm in 18 out of 20 Pakistan-made fairness creams 5 April 2026, Quezon City.  Ahead of World Health Day on April 7, the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition took the Government of Pakistan…

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