New Today -- 18 April 2017

Perspective

Washington pushes world to brink of nuclear war

Statements from US officials have laid bare the recklessness of the tactics being pursued by Washington, threatening a war on the Korean peninsula involving the use of nuclear weapons and the deaths of millions.

News & Analysis

Immigrant arrests up 33 percent since Trump inauguration

The swelling total of detained immigrants, many of them with no criminal record, is clogging the courts and detention centers.

Mounting political tensions in aftermath of Turkish referendum

Severe humanitarian crisis in Iraq with 800,000 going to bed hungry

Trump administration announces new military operation in Somalia

Trade spat precedes IMF meeting

Ultra-right libertarian to run the US Education Office of Civil Rights

BP oil well blowout in North Alaska

Latest cuts plan at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe threatens 4,000 jobs

Papua New Guinea soldiers attack refugees in Australian-run prison camp

India strengthens defence ties with Bangladesh

Commentary

Obama lives it up in the lap of luxury

Behind the Sun's diatribe against footballer Ross Barkley

Free the Maruti Suzuki workers!

Sri Lankan plantation and railway workers condemn Maruti Suzuki frame-up

Arts

Edward Yang's Taipei Story (1985) depicts a city of sadness and alienation

Workers Struggles

Strikes hit mines in Peru and Mexico as retired US coal miners face health care cutoff