Algeria’s jailing of writer for remarks on border with regional rival Morocco inflames tensions with France. Algeria has sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in prison on charges of “undermining national unity”. A court in Dar El Beida, near Algiers, sentenced the author on Thursday under “anti-terrorism” laws after he gave an interview to far-right French media outlet Frontieres, in which he questioned the borders dividing...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will lay off 10,000 workers and shut down entire agencies, including ones that oversee billions of dollars in funds for addiction services and community health centres across the United States. HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr (RFK) criticised the department he oversees as an inefficient “sprawling bureaucracy” in a video announcing the restructuring on Thursday. He faulted the department’s...

NewsFeed Arturo Suarez’s partner Nathali is raising their six-month-old daughter alone after, she says, US authorities wrongly deported him to a mega-prison in El Salvador. Critics say innocent tattoos like his are being used as the basis for accusations of Venezuelan gang membership. Published On 27 Mar 202527 Mar 2025 Adblock test (Why?)