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A court in Cairo has ordered the closure of the independent Egyptian news site Mada Masr. The court also ordered the site’s editor-in-chief, Lina Attalah, to be detained until she pays a fine of over $50,000.

"An alternative to the neoliberal playbook is possible in the here and now."

Trump's DOJ has vowed to reject the results of Alaska's Senate election if the Republican candidate loses. “There is no merit to this claim,” says Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project.

A court in Cairo has ordered the closure of the independent Egyptian news site Mada Masr, striking a major blow to journalism in the region.

We spoke to the acclaimed economist Isabella Weber, author of the new book "Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy."

ACLU lawyer Sophia Lin Lakin previews the Trump administration's latest attempts to undermine confidence in this year's midterm elections, from a Senate race in Alaska to voter rolls in California.

"The fact that you have all of these parties that are advocating major war crimes and nobody is blinking says something very deep about Israeli society, but also about an international community that has fostered this and that has allowed this to brew for all of these years."

“Students really changed the whole political landscape of the country, and maybe even more important, they changed political imagination."

Lula’s surprise comeback comes after weeks of student-led organizing and campaigning on his behalf, and amid accusations that U.S.-based tech companies were suppressing Lula’s reach online in favor of his Trump-aligned opponent.

No matter who wins Israel's elections, Palestinians are unlikely to see much change in policy. "The opposition is very much like Netanyahu," says Diana Buttu.

Serbia's longtime leader Aleksander Vučić has been swept out of power by a historic student-led opposition movement, sparked by the collapse of a train station in 2024. The Student List "wiped out" other opposition parties, says journalist Lela Vujanić.

"It is absolutely unprecedented." Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won a record fourth term in office, defeating far-right challenger Flávio Bolsonaro by four million votes in a runoff election on Sunday. Bolsonaro narrowly beat Lula in the first round earlier this month.

Ohio Republicans are embroiled in a series of scandals that could affect their chances in the upcoming U.S. midterms.

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If the AI bubble bursts, "we need a people-first bailout," says writer @astra.bsky.social.

Should AIPAC register as foreign agents? "We talked to numerous people who showed us several examples of how AIPAC is acting at the request of Israel," says Dion Nissenbaum, correspondent on Zeteo's new documentary "Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence."

Albania's Flamingo Revolution began over a Jared Kushner-backed luxury resort project, but “it has developed into huge anti-corruption protests," says organizer Boba Mema.

“If Abdul El-Sayed wins, it will be a reminder that the left can win in a swing state like Michigan.”

We speak with the acclaimed South African human rights lawyer and international jurist Navi Pillay, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

As voters across the U.S. cast ballots on Nov. 3, Californians are weighing whether to approve a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of billionaires. We speak about the measure with Democratic congressmember Ro Khanna and Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions.

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Sunday’s presidential runoff in Brazil could determine the future of Latin America’s largest democracy.

Students Lead Protests in Indonesia over Economic Crisis & Forest Fires

Students Lead Protests in Indonesia over Economic Crisis & Forest Fires

French Student Union Denounces Macron Ban on “Illegitimate” Protests

Book Claims Saudi and Emirati Leaders Set Up Secret Bank Accounts for Jared Kushner

Pentagon OKs Testing Heat Ray Weapon on Migrants Along U.S.-Mexico Border

Netanyahu Moves to Fully Lock Down West Bank Ahead of Israeli Elections

Al Jazeera English’s Fault Lines investigated several recent deaths of detained immigrants at California’s Adelanto Processing Center.

Is Meta boosting Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential campaign in Brazil?

"This ad, I think, is energizing those people to come to the polls and support [Amy] Acton because of how despicable they feel [Vivek] Ramaswamy's ad is."

A new Al Jazeera Faultlines documentary investigates the "very preventable" September 2025 death of 39-year-old Ismael Ayala-Uribe in California ICE detention. Watch the full report here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMIwRtMhrmc

Backlash to Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's ad featuring his Democratic rival Amy Acton's estranged mother has put Republican candidates throughout Ohio in jeopardy. @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social reports.

U.N. Says World Has Lost Chance to Limit Global Heating

Police Violently Restrain Three People During Utah Data Center Protest

Russia Kills More Civilians in Ukraine as U.S. Envoy Witkoff Praises Putin as a “Humanitarian”

U.S. and Israeli Militaries Draft Plans to Resume Strikes on Iran After Midterm Elections

"These kids stripped Modi of this fake glory that he had clothed himself in."

The new documentary "Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence" goes behind the scenes into AIPAC and the pro-Israel lobby's role in the United States.

“If Abdul El-Sayed wins, it will be a reminder that the left can win in a swing state like Michigan."

We spoke to the acclaimed writer and activist Arundhati Roy about India's youth-led Cockroach movement against the country's repressive Modi government.

Zeteo's @mehdirhasan.bsky.social comments on the Michigan Senate race and Islamophobic attacks on Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

"Isn't it interesting that Republicans in Congress want everyone to register as a foreign agent except AIPAC?" @zeteo.com's new documentary about AIPAC's role in U.S. politics is out now: https://zeteo.com/p/watch-our-new-aipac-documentary-zeteo

A major United Nations climate report says, for the first time, that the world has lost its chance to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That was a key goal of the 2015 Paris climate accord aimed at limiting the worst effects of the climate crisis.

The AI buildout “is so intense, so frenetic and so redundant” that it risks causing a major economic crash akin to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis.

“Students find no future in Albania,” says Bora Mema, a founding member of the left-wing political party Lëvizja Bashkë.

Writer @naomiaklein.bsky.social says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."

As voters across the United States cast ballots on Nov. 3, Californians are weighing whether to approve a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of billionaires in the state. We speak about the measure with Congressmember Ro Khanna and Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions.

We speak with the acclaimed South African human rights lawyer and international jurist Navi Pillay, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

On election day, Californians will vote on a ballot measure to impose a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of billionaires. “We can either be a Democratic Party that stands for the working class in the tradition of the New Deal, or we can continue to cater to the donor class,” says @rokhanna.bsky.social.