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Housing Politics and Human Response After a Disaster Through the Lens of Anthony Micallef

In Marseille, Anthony Micallef revisits Rue d’Aubagne, where a building collapse in 2018 left eight dead and 4700 residents displaced. In conversation with photo editor Alice Santinelli, they reflect on the current housing conditions of those affected. This tragic event, the responsibility of politicians and particularly lawmakers, has stirred reflection on how urbanization models can both engender and resist social inequality.

Marseille has a population of 900,000. I'm trying to tell the story of a part of the Marseillais who will never feature in publications on Instagram or elsewhere, because they don't fit the image “Marseille bébé” we want to give of the city.

✍🏽 Alice Santinelli
📷 Anthony Micallef

Real the full conversation on Turning Point.

The Struggle for Housing From 1315, One of the Largest Organized Squatted Blocks in Spain

In the heart of Collado Villalba, a municipality located in the northwestern mountains of Madrid, more than a hundred people survive squatting without water in two blocks of public property.

✍🏽📷 Asamblea de Vivienda de Villalba

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The Earth Under Siege

The year 2025 must be the year we reject militarism, but not only with our tax money and feet on the ground at protests. We must also fight against the mentality we are asked to accept.

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📷 Rizek Abdel Jawad

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How to Drive the World Over the Precipice:
Overshoot by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton

We have reached a historical hinge point where the 1.5 °C safety limit is in the process of being broken. New fronts of climate struggle are emerging as "overshooting" goals becomes the dominant ideology of climate policy.

✍🏽 Ville Lähde
📷 Freepik

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Downwinders:
The Forgotten Stories of America’s First Atomic Bomb

Half a million people lived within a 150-mile radius of Trinity in 1945 and Trinity’s residual fallout traveled as far as Canada, Mexico, and 46 U.S. states. Only 15% of the plutonium in the bomb fissioned, while the remaining radioactive fallout blew downwind into surrounding communities and seeped into the soil. Residents of the area described black ash raining down, cows turning white, and white snow-like debris falling from the sky that children rubbed on their faces and caught on their tongues until they realized it was too hot to be snow. Individuals were not warned or evacuated, and exposure rates in the area were “10,000 times higher than currently allowed.”

✍🏽 📷 Sofie Hecht

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Our reporter Henri Sulku is currently on board the Conscience, one of the ships of the Freedom Flotilla sailing towards Gaza. Around one hundred people are on board, including healthcare professionals and members of the press, carrying medical supplies.

Previous flotillas attempting to break the siege have been intercepted by the Israeli military, which has shown reckless disregard for human life and international law. Despite the risks, this journey is part of the broader story of Gaza’s starvation and occupation, and of those committed to ending them.

You can track the ship's journey live on the Flotilla Tracker website. We’re also sharing daily updates, interviews with the doctors on board, and reports from the journey on Instagram and on our new TikTok account.

Follow us as the Freedom Flotilla sails to break the siege and defend press freedom.

The ship Conscience has been unlawfully intercepted in international waters, and all those on board — including our colleague Henri Sulku — have been abducted by the Israeli military, together with all other members of the Freedom Flotilla.

Read our full statement on Turning Point. Picture by Henri Sulku.

Journalism is never a crime.

Our editor Henri Sulku and all international participants on the Freedom Flotilla have been released.
Here's his first update, speaking from Amman, Jordan, just hours after being released from unlawful Israeli detention, in conversation with Ann Wright, one of the organizers of the Freedom Flotilla.

The Last Guardian of al-Hol: Jihan Hanan's Lone Struggle in the World's Most Dangerous Camp

After years directing the volatile camp for ISIS-linked women and their children, Jihan Hanan now lives in hiding, caught between death threats against her family and renewed outbursts of ethnic violence in Syria. This is the story of the woman the world forgot when the "ticking bomb" of al-Hol finally exploded.

✍🏽Henri Sulku
📷Maryam Ashrafi

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"The Mediterranean is, in the end, a sea of connection as much as a sea of division. It has carried philosophers and conquerors, traders and refugees, revolutionaries and empires, in both directions for five thousand years. The forces working to militarize it, to privatize its seabed, and to turn it into a moat are powerful. But they are not unopposed."

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Approved by the Lithuanian Parliament on April 22, the new plan marks the first admission that Rail Baltica's 2030 target—already 5 years behind the original goal—is slipping.

Rail Baltica is the EU's flagship rail project, a "dual use" high-speed line meant to boost commerce and military mobility on NATO's eastern flank. The 870-km route would link Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to Warsaw and central Europe, replacing the former soviet republics' legacy rail design that is incompatible with European trains.

This Spring, the project has faced growing criticism for poor planning and funding, with Poland's deputy transport minister calling 2030 goal "self-cheating." Days before the recent delays, Latvian opposition leader Andris Šuvajevs warned it had become "entangled in many side projects that have significantly increased costs."

Rail Baltica's budget has quadrupled from €5.8 to €23.8 billion, driven by inflation and improvised conversion to military use. The EU is expected to cover up to 85% of its costs.

Since 1946, April 25 has been celebrated as the national "Day of Liberation" in Italy.

The Italian Resistance united diverse partisan groups under the CLN. Workers organized a general strike; in Genoa 5,000 partisans forced the capitulation of about 10,000 Wehrmacht soldiers despite Nazi numerical superiority. Partisans hid in the mountains for years and weakened occupiers with uprisings and sabotage of communications and transport.

About 35,000 women were active fighters and thousands more supported civil networks; staffette couriers on bicycles carried weapons and messages past checkpoints. Around 650,000 Italian soldiers refused to serve the Reich or the Salò regime and many were deported; thousands of German deserters joined the partisans. Mussolini was captured two days later; German forces in northern Italy surrendered in early May.

The Pentagon briefing paper aims to curb a European "sense of entitlement" by recommending the removal of "difficult" nations from key positions and reviewing the U.S. stance on Britain's claim to the Falkland Islands.

The document was leaked to media amid President Trump's growing frustration with European allies blocking US Air Force's overflight rights and refusing to deploy their navies to the Strait of Hormuz. Suspending Spain from the alliance would have a limited effect on U.S. operations, but it would be a strong symbolic move.

NATO officials said the alliance's founding treaty doesn't allow suspending a member, making the proposal legally difficult to enforce.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez dismissed the report, stating, "We don't work off emails," as European leaders met in Cyprus to address growing fears of US unreliability.

The Philippine Commission on Human Rights has opened an investigation into "conflicting accounts" of a deadly military raid on Negros Island on April 19.

The Philippine army says it killed 19 fighters of the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, which has waged a rural insurgency since 1969. The NPA denies the claim, saying only “a small group” of those killed were its members, while most were civilians.

Local rights groups have called the raid “a massacre” and a “blatant breach of international humanitarian law," listing Altermidya journalist RJ Ledesma, student leader Alyssa Alano, and peasant organizers Errol Wendel Chen and Maureen Keil Santuyo among the dead.

The operation took place a day before the US-Philippine "Balikatan" exercise, which draws more than 16,000 soldiers from the two countries, and from France, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Czechia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK are present in the 19-day event as observers.