Gazans claim the Israeli-controlled area, marked by the so-called Yellow Line, changes without warning, moving west. 'We are not fighters,' says one mother sheltering in central Gaza, who worries her children will get caught in the line of fire, 'we are people trying to live'
Palestinians show leaflets dropped by an Israeli drone warning people to stay away from the so-called Yellow Line in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, in October. Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP
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Three months after the September uprising that toppled Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and brought Nepal's first female head of government to power, the country remains suspended between revolutionary rupture and uncertain transition. The interim government of Sushila Karki has a single mandate: conduct elections on 5 March 2026. Whether it can do so—and whether the uprising's energy will translate into lasting political change—are questions now being contested across Nepal's media and civil (…)

LGBT communities in South-East and East Asia face a contradictory landscape: legislative breakthroughs in some countries coincide with intensified repression in others. The past year's developments illuminate both the conditions under which movements advance and the mechanisms through which states marginalise sexual and gender minorities. Feminist and progressive publications across the region have documented these struggles, foregrounding the voices of those directly affected.
Indonesia: (…)

Ninety years ago today, on 18 December 1935, the 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 (𝐋𝐒𝐒𝐏) was founded in Kumari Jayawardena's words, as a “broad based radical party instead of a strictly Marxist party...”, by a mostly Marxist group of 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬 members.
This couple of dozen men and (three) women declared the new party's “fundamental objective” to be the “establishment of a Socialist Society”. The founding manifesto set out three main aims and 22 immediate demands.
This is the Manifesto (…)

Some in China are blaming Mongolia for the dust storms they are experiencing. But what are the real causes ?
People in Beijing wearing masks as a massive dust storm hit the city in 2023. AP Photo/Ng Han Guan/Alamy
Dust storms regularly affect northern China, including its capital Beijing. In recent years, Chinese scientists and officials have traced the source of the dust storms to its neighbour Mongolia.
Much of the dust over Beijing in the spring of 2023, for example, originated (…)