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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,…

Goiânia Survivors Challenge Netflix: ‘A Crime Against the Truth’

In 2017, Odesson Alves Ferreira, a survivor of the 1987 Goiânia nuclear disaster in central Brazil, received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Uranium Film Festival. Odesson himself was severely contaminated by the highly radioactive cesium-137 and lives with…

Manifesto for Radical Kindness

On April 1, a manifesto was released stating that, in the face of hatred, “radical kindness is the most dangerous act we can uphold.” Here is the link to sign it: Manifesto for Radical Kindness https://resist.es/peticiones/manifiesto-por-la-bondad-radical/ At Resist.es and Spanish…

Bangladesh yet to recover billions lost in fertiliser import scandal, anti-graft probe finds

by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s two main state agricultural agencies have failed to recover losses from alleged large-scale irregularities in government-imported fertiliser purchases worth nearly Tk 2,000 crore (£145m), according to findings by the country’s anti-corruption watchdog. The…

Bangladesh Parliament Passes Controversial Bill: All Political Activities of Awami League Banned

By Zahida Islam Chanda (Dhaka Bureau) In a historic and contentious move, the National Parliament of Bangladesh has passed the ‘Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill.’ Under this law, all political activities of the ousted Awami League- including public rallies, processions, publications, and…

Allegations of ‘Transfer Bribery’ Surfacing Against Former Interim Law Adviser in Bangladesh

By Sheikh Arif (Dhaka Bureau) A formal complaint has been lodged with Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) against Asif Nazrul, the former Law Adviser of the interim government, and his Personal Secretary (PS), Shamsuddin Masum. A Supreme Court lawyer officially submitted…

As India’s Assam goes to assembly polls

Northeast Indian State of  Assam goes to the single-phase polling on 9 April 2026, where 2.50 crore registered voters (including 5.75 lakh young/first-time voters) will exercise their franchise to elect 126 representatives for the State legislative assembly. Under the guidelines…

Germany again! For Bad and for Good!

It seems that certain German politicians have learned nothing from the past. Cancellar Merz of the CDU/SPD coalition wants that Germany’s army becomes the biggest of Europe. The German budget spending on the military sored and is producing an ever…

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…

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