UN Mission Says It Has ‘Clear and Convincing’ Information That Hamas Sexually Violated Women
FILE – Demonstrators gather outside U.N. headquarters in New York, Dec. 4, 2023. Israeli women and legal activists criticized international rights groups’ response to reports of alleged sex crimes committed by Hamas militants during the October 7 attacks.
US Condemns Sentencing of Grammy-Winning Iranian Singer Hajipour
FILE – A video of Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour plays on a phone in Nicosia, Cyprus, Oct. 4, 2022.
‘Ukraine Is Russia,’ Says Putin Ally Dmitry Medvedev
FILE – Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, front right, speaks to Russian military members during his visit at a military training range in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sept. 15, 2023. (Pool Sputnik via AP)
Analysts: Iran Using Gaza War to Consolidate Regional Influence
FILE – Iranian women, one of them holding an anti-Israeli placard, attend a pro-Palestinian rally, in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 13, 2023. The woman at left holds a portrait of the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in 2020.
US Lobbyists Drop Chinese Clients Amid Tightened Scrutiny
FILE – A man speaks on his phone at the Capitol in Washington, June 22, 2022. Lobbying firms in Washington reportedly are dropping clients from China amid growing concerns about Beijing’s influence on Capitol Hill.
Ethiopia Releases French Journalist After Week of Imprisonment
A part of the homepage of Africa Intelligence, for which journalist Antoine Galindo works. Galindo, who was held for a week in Ethiopia, was released Feb. 29, 2024, ahead of his scheduled second court appearance, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
VOA Immigration Weekly Recap, Feb. 18-March 2
U.S. President Joe Biden greets members of the U.S. Border Patrol at the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, a city in the U.S. state of Texas, Feb. 29, 2024.
WASHINGTON — Ten US states control and profit from federal Indian reservation lands
It is commonly assumed that the U.S. government holds in trust all land inside Indian reservation borders for the exclusive use of tribes.
This week, High Country News and the nonprofit online news magazine Grist report that 10 state governments hold trust to 647,500 hectares (1.6 million acres) of surface and subsurface acres of lands inside 83 federal Indian reservations.
Tribes have little to no say over how the lands are used, and state-run mining, grazing, logging and leasing generate millions of dollars that are used to support non-Indigenous agencies such as public schools, prisons or universities.
In 1887, Congress passed the General Allotment Act, or Dawes Act, carving up reservations into smaller parcels that were doled out to families and individuals. The remaining land — about 36,400,000 hectares (90 million acres) — was sold or opened up to U.S. states, settlers and federal projects suc..
Israel-Hamas War Brings Back Pain to Argentine Jewish Community
FILE – Sandra Miasnik, right, an aunt of Argentine-Israeli infant Kfir Bibas, a hostage of Hamas in Gaza, attends a gathering one day before his first birthday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 17, 2024.
Looking Back on Argentina’s Deadly 1994 Jewish Community Center Bombing
FILE – A man cries as he holds up a candle on the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires, Argentina,, July 18, 2019.