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As Sudan’s civil war spirals deeper into turmoil, activists are remembering friends and loved ones killed during pro-democracy protests in Khartoum on June 3, 2019. The killings, carried out by military forces in an effort to disperse a sit-in calling for civilian rule and democracy, marked a pivotal moment for Sudan after the April 2019 overthrow of former President Omar al-Bashir. Before al-Bashir was deposed in a military coup, a large civilian protest movement had been demanding for months that the president step down. That movement continued after the imposition of military rule, eventually leading to what has become known…

Keith Gill, or ‘Roaring Kitty’, shared a screenshot on Reddit that showed he may hold five million shares of GameStop.Shares of GameStop soared once again following speculation that the man at the centre of the pandemic meme stock craze owns a large number of shares of the video game retailer that may be worth millions. GameStock’s stock jumped more than 37 percent in Monday morning trading. Keith Gill, better known as “Roaring Kitty” on social media platforms YouTube and X, also goes by the name Deep F****** Value on Reddit. Late Sunday, the Reddit account shared a screenshot in the…

US President Joe Biden has told Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani that Hamas is the only obstacle to a Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel, and urged him to press the group to accept it. Biden “affirmed that Hamas is now the only obstacle to a complete ceasefire” and “confirmed Israel’s readiness to move forward” with the terms he set out last week, the White House said in a readout of a call between the two leaders on Monday. The Qatari Amiri Diwan confirmed that Sheikh Tamim received a call from the US president “to discuss efforts towards…

Trading in at least 60 stocks is halted due to volatility as Berkshire Hathaway shares plunge 99.97%.A glitch at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has triggered enormous swings in the shares of Berkshire Hathaway and Barrick Gold and led to trading halts in dozens of other companies before the bourse fixed the problem. Trading in at least 60 stocks listed on the NYSE were halted on Monday due to volatility and some stocks showed unusual outsized movements. The NYSE, owned by Intercontinental Exchange, said by late Monday morning that it had resolved a reported technical issue and the impacted…

Ghalibaf is among presidential hopefuls seeking approval to run for the June 28 snap elections.The conservative speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has registered his candidacy for the snap presidential election on June 28. At the end of the five-day registration period on Monday evening, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi told reporters that a total of 80 applications have been submitted. The presidential hopefuls now have to wait until June 11 to see if their candidacy is approved by the Guardian Council – a conservative-dominated, 12-member body of jurists who are either appointed or approved by Iran’s supreme leader and…

Civil penalties are for significant delays in providing nearly $1bn in refunds owed to passengers.The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) says it has imposed a total of $2.5m in civil penalties against Lufthansa, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and South African Airways. The civil penalties, the department said on Monday, are for significant delays in providing more than $900m in refunds owed to passengers due to flights disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic after thousands of airline customers were forced to wait months. KLM and Lufthansa were each hit with $1.1m in penalties, and both carriers were credited $550,000 for refunds…

Every year, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) publishes its report on the world’s most neglected displacement crises. These are the countries where millions are displaced, exposed to violence, famine, disease, and dispossession. Burkina Faso has topped the list for the second year in a row, followed by Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mali, Niger, Honduras, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Chad and Sudan. “The utter neglect of displaced people has become the new normal,” said Jan Egeland, secretary-general of NRC, in a statement on the report. “The local political and military elites disregard the suffering they…

Paris, France – French-Palestinian activist and jurist Rima Hassan, a leftist candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections, has been the subject of political and media scrutiny in France as Israel’s war on Gaza continues to rage. Born stateless in April 1992 in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, Hassan arrived in France with her family when she was nine. She obtained French nationality at 18 and pursued a master’s degree in international law, writing her thesis on apartheid in South Africa and Israel; groups such as Amnesty International and experts have long accused Israel of committing apartheid. Hassan founded…

Bangkok, Thailand – The United States’ efforts to cripple Russia’s war machine in Ukraine have ensnared an unlikely target far from Moscow: Malaysia’s multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry. Malaysian semiconductor maker Jatronics SDN BHD is among nearly 300 entities that Washington slapped with US sanctions last month over their alleged links to Russia’s military suppliers. Jatronics, based in Kuala Lumpur, is accused of shipping electronic parts and components to Russia that Moscow needs to sustain the conflict. Russian customs data shows that one of the Russian companies Jatronics has supplied since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 was already sanctioned by Western…