Samuel Albert

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people  – in numbers approaching half of the estimated million of this largely Muslim ethnic group living in Myanmar – have been driven from their homes and country by armed Buddhist militias and the army and police.

US President Donald Trump's cruise missile attack on a Syrian airbase can only ratchet up the horrors being inflicted on the Syrian people by multiple rival enemies.

The US and its coalition have been carrying out stepped-up terror attacks in Iraq and Syria, killing almost 1,000 civilians since the beginning of March, according to the UK-based monitoring group Airwars.org.

Some eight to ten thousand refugees have been living in an improvised camp in Calais, currently being demolished by French officials.

In an alarming development that illustrates how Europe is adopting police and even military solutions to what it sees as its "migrant crisis" – and reflects the real underlying world crises – Nato has sent warships to the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey.

These crimes were part of the beleaguered Saudi royal family's efforts to defend its rule by wielding state violence and religious authority, both represented by the executioner's sword.

The 13 November bombings and shootings in Paris murdered 129 innocent people. Many of them in their twenties and thirties, they happened to be attending a rock concert, eating out in a lively neighbourhood, watching football in a sports bar or just walking by.

Thousands of young Tunisians drown trying to make their way to Europe, hoping that the West can offer a life that their own country cannot.

The British columnist Robert Fisk recently wrote that if people wanted to "address ‘the underlying issues' of the Israel/Palestinian war", as U.S. President Barack Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry advised, they should ask themselves why the Palestinians are in Gaza.