As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM

MOST of us are familiar with the story of Anne Frank, the Dutch teenager who hid with her family and other Jews in an Amsterdam attic during Nazi occupation, before being denounced to authorities and arrested. Anne, along with her sister and parents and the others hiding with them, were deported to the death camps. Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived.
No-one is quite certain who denounced the Franks, but their fate was not dissimilar to that of countless other Jews during World War II, who were turned in not only by supporters of the Nazi regime, but also by colleagues, neighbours and even people they trusted and considered their friends. Some betrayed for money, others out of hate, fear or prejudice.
Today, much to the shock and dismay of many in the Jewish community both in the US and abroad, a radical zionist group is denouncing people guilty of no other crime than opposing a genocide and is submitting their names to the US government on what it calls its “deport list.”

Women opponents of the Trump regime fear his misogynist, racist and anti-immigrant views are taking hold in Britain, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER, as protests against his visit hit London’s streets

But the beneath the racism and misogyny of the far right lies a shared grievance with the left — Starmer’s complete betrayal of working people, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER