Nineham and Jamal found guilty in ‘dark day’ for civil libertiesTWO pro-Palestine campaigners being found guilty of breaching protest conditions yesterday is “a huge setback for civil liberties,” supporters said. Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) director Ben Jamal and Stop the War vice-chair Chris Nineham made clear they will be appealing the verdicts as they criticised the “absurdity” of the case.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nineham-and-jamal-found-guilty-dark-day-civil-libertiesSwedish PM offers deal that could see far-right allowed into governmentDespite becoming Sweden’s second biggest political party after the Social Democrats in the last election, SD currently plays only a supporting role in the minority-run coalition. But Kristersson, who leads the centre-right Moderates, said on Wednesday that if his four-party coalition won September’s election, SD would hold “big political influence and important ministerial posts within immigration and integration”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/01/swedish-pm-offers-deal-that-could-see-far-right-allowed-into-governmentRussia claims to take full control of Ukraine’s Luhansk regionLuhansk and Donetsk make up the wider Donbas area. More than 99 percent of Luhansk has long been under Russian control and was one of four Ukrainian regions Moscow annexed in 2022. Russia also controls about three-quarters of Donetsk. The Kremlin on Wednesday reiterated its demand that Ukrainian forces withdraw from the entirety of Donetsk, which Kyiv has repeatedly dismissed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/1/russia-claims-to-take-full-control-of-ukraines-luhansk-regionhttps://archive.ph/iwcNDFrench telemarketing ban threatens the jobs of 50,000 Moroccan workers In France, the measure has been welcomed as an overdue response to years of complaints about intrusive and sometimes fraudulent telemarketing. But in Morocco, where nearly 80 per cent of the call centre sector's activity is tied to French clients, it is being received as a structural shock.
https://www.newarab.com/news/french-telemarketing-ban-threatens-50000-moroccan-workersSudan professors’ strike enters third day as more arrests reportedThe Sudanese University Professors Committee said the strike reached a 100 per cent response rate on Monday, up from 95 per cent on its first day, though Radio Dabanga could not independently verify the figures. The committee reported that security forces in El Obeid detained 11 professors from the University of Kordofan for taking part in the strike and organising a protest vigil.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-professors-strike-enters-third-day-as-more-arrests-reported‘Don’t Kill Us’: Unheard Voices of India's Manual Scavengers, Sanitation Workers In a recent protest action in Delhi, Bezwada Wilson of SKA accused the government of hiding sewer death figures, stating that 41 workers had died in 2026 alone so far.
https://www.newsclick.in/dont-kill-us-unheard-voices-indias-manual-scavengers-sanitation-workersFood assistance slashed for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees trapped in Bangladesh campsCurrently, the 1.2 million Rohingya trapped in the squalid camps receive $12 a month per person, an amount the persecuted minority from Myanmar has long warned is barely sustainable. Most of the Rohingya in the camps fled brutal attacks by Myanmar’s military in 2017 and they are legally barred from working in Bangladesh, leaving them largely reliant upon humanitarian aid to survive.
https://apnews.com/article/rohingya-bangladesh-aid-ration-cuts-wfp-8349d38f8f8b21c96e70b5e805468fd1Ecuadorian Organizations Protest Early Elections, Denounce ManipulationPolitical organizations, student federations, and social movements in Ecuador marched vehemently towards the National Electoral Council headquarters in Quito this Wednesday.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/ecuador-protest-early-elections/Colombia’s finance minister abandons central bank meeting over latest interest rate hikeAccording to the bank, increasing the interest rate will dampen consumption, and consequently lower the inflation rate. The government, which follows a different economic philosophy, claims that the inflation is due to supply problems, like the war in Iran, and that increasing the interest rate will only impede economic growth. President Gustavo Petro supported his finance minister and said that the central bank “hopes to ruin our good economy so we lose elections.”
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-finance-minister-abandons-central-bank-meeting-over-latest-interest-rate-hike/Marina Silva steps down as Brazil’s environment minister to run for CongressWhen she took office in 2023, deforestation had nearly doubled under former President Jair Bolsonaro, who ran the country from 2019 to 2022. Silva pledged to eliminate deforestation by 2030, and since 2022, policies implemented under her leadership have reduced forest loss by more than 50%.
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