Donald Trump鈥檚 move to revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines sparked a number of emergency protests on January 24 in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia and other cities, Democracy Now! reported the next day.
On January 24, Trump issued executive orders that revived the two mega-pipeline projects, which the Obama administration had blocked in the face of huge protests.
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and supporters have said they will resist US President Donald Trump's to allow construction of the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) that threatens to destroy water supply of the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, as well as Native American sacred sites.
Northern Ireland is in the grip of a deep political crisis.
The power-sharing administration in the six northern Irish counties still claimed by Britain between the Irish republican party Sinn Fein and the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) collapsed when Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness resigned on January 9 and called for new elections.
Explaining his decision to resign, McGuinness cited 鈥済rowing DUP arrogance and lack of respect, whether that was for women, our LGBT community, ethnic minorities or the Irish-language community and identity.鈥
Activist filmmaker Zebedee Parkes, a member of Socialist Alliance who produces content for 麻豆传媒 TV, won 鈥渂est short documentary鈥 at the 2016 Sydney Indie Film Festival for his refugee documentary For My Friend In Detention.
Black Lives Matter, the US anti-police brutality group formed to oppose racist police killings, mourned the death of former Cuban president and revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in reflecting on his life. In it,聽the group discussed the lessons it has learned from his struggle against racism and imperialism.
The has warned that 2016 was set to be the hottest year on record by a significant margin livescience.com said.
WMO scientists told diplomats gathered in Marrakech, Morocco, for the November 7鈥18 United Nations COP22 climate talks that temperatures are 1.2藲C above pre-industrial times.
Leonard Cohen, the Canadian singer-songwriter who died just two days after Donald Trump seized the White House, seemed to predict this moment.
In his dystopian song , from the 1992 album of the same name, Cohen sang: 鈥淚've seen the future, brother:聽it is murder.鈥
鈥淭hings are gonna slide,鈥 the famously dark singer suggested, 鈥渟lide in all directions ... the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold.鈥
In a dramatic depiction of the vast differences in resources and respect between men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 sport, a report by the Professional Footballers Australia (PFA) has laid bare the woeful pay and conditions for W-League football (soccer) players.
AAP reported on September 23 that he report by the PFA, the union representing Australian footballers, surveyed almost two-thirds of W-League players last season. The report suggests players could walk away from the game because of the financial strain.
Hundreds of thousands of Colombians marched in silence in cities across the country holding candles and torches on October 5 in support of a peace deal that only just lost a plebiscite on October 2, Morning Star said.
The huge marches came after the shock victory of the 鈥淣o鈥 vote in a plebiscite on whether to accept the peace deal negotiated between the government of Juan Manuel Santos and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Suspected leftists held by the military during the mass killings that followed the Western-backed 1965 Indonesian military coup.
East Timor鈥檚 decision to take Australia to the Hague over Australia鈥檚 refusal to obey international law 鈥 and grant East Timor its legitimate share of oil and gas resources 鈥 comes just weeks after a tribunal at the Hague found Australia was complicit in the murders in Indonesia in 1965.
Irish republican party Sinn Fein has condemned the British government鈥檚 non-apology over police collusion in a 1994 massacre in the six northern Irish counties still claimed by Britain.
On June 18, 1994, masked men armed with assault rifles burst into a pub in Loughinisland in County Down as Catholic civilians watched a Republic of Ireland World Cup football match. Opening fire, they killed six people and injured five.
