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FOREIGN Secretary Ed Miliband told the Commons yesterday that Israeli ‘settler terrorists’ are carrying out ethnic cleansing in the West Bank with the tacit...

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden announced yesterday the country is banning Russian oil and gas in response to Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine. Biden said...

SRI Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as acting president, while the country reels from the economic crisis and the developing...

MORE than one and a half million Palestinians are starving in Gaza this New Year’s Eve, as the Israeli army continues to block essential...

THE Israeli military has once again attacked the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, brutally abducting medical staff and patients before taking...

JOSEP BORRELL, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, yesterday commended the advisory opinion that Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is...

ISRAELI forces continued lethal operations in Gaza and intensified repression across the occupied West Bank yesterday amid repeated ceasefire violations in the Strip and...

HAMAS'S military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched a ten-rocket missile attack on Israel yesterday, causing loud explosions in the Tel Aviv area, triggering alarm...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an immediate end to what he described as Israeli occupation and aggression in Gaza, the West Bank,...

‘ISRAEL has been intentionally starving the Palestinian people in Gaza since October 8,’ the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri...

  US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Saturday called for one-and-a-half million Palestinians to be deported to Egypt and Jordan. Describing Gaza as a ‘demolition site’, Trump...

YESTERDAY Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, announced that an investigation into a rape allegation made against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange in...

Ten people, including six children, were killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza yesterday. Their bodies were...

FRENCH protesters downed tools and marched once again in Paris and other cities yesterday. They have been galvanised by President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ram...

THE United States has declared a total naval blockade on Iranian ports after ceasefire talks collapsed in Islamabad on Sunday without a breakthrough. President Donald...

ZOHRAM MAMDANI, a self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’, was elected the 111th mayor of New York yesterday. He is the first person of South Asian descent and...

A GENEVA-based rights group has documented a new Israeli war crime in the Gaza Strip, where an occupation tank deliberately ran over an injured...

LEBANON’S Hezbollah movement reported that senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, also known as ‘Jawad’, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in the south of...

ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier pledged to ensure the extension of Israeli sovereignty to the Jewish settlements of the Jordan Valley after US Secretary...

THE UNITED Nations has issued its starkest warning yet that Israel’s campaign in Gaza has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe marked by famine and...

YESTERDAY, Sunday 3rd May, was World Press Freedom Day, with Reporters Without Borders, declaring that global press freedom has fallen to its lowest level...

IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday that Iran would not yield to US threats, sanctions or force,...

ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least...

Israeli occupation forces kill an average of four children every hour in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported yesterday, the...

THE employees of a Your Independent Grocer (YIG) franchise – in Cornwall, Ontario – have been on strike since November 23rd, as employer and...

THE White House has confirmed that the United States has engaged in direct negotiations with Hamas regarding American captives held in Gaza, despite Washington’s...

IRAN’S Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) struck the US-run Muwaffaq Salti air base in Jordan with a missile barrage on Wednesday, leaving an A-10 Thunderbolt without...

WORKERS took to the streets in cities across the world yesterday to mark International Workers Day, with trade unions warning that the US-Israeli war...

THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has slammed Israel’s new land grab plans, urging the International Criminal Court (ICC) to speed up its investigation into...

THE Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, is facing extensive urban destruction by Israeli firepower and forced displacement of its residents. The Israeli military...

AT least 21 Palestinian men, women and children were killed in Gaza yesterday, bringing the death toll to 41,226, with a further 76 wounded,...

NASSER Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital remains under Israeli military siege in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip said the Palestinian Red Crescent...

THREE members of the Abdeen family were killed by an Israeli strike on al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis, yesterday as the occupation army broke...

HAMAS has condemned threats made by US President Donald Trump, warning that his remarks will embolden Israel to disregard the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas...

SINCE 7 October 2023, Israeli airstrikes have emerged as the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers globally, responsible for over 75 per cent...

GAZA Civil Defence Units have found mass graves of another 50 Palestinians at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with many of the...

TANKS and armoured vehicles fired on family cars and buses in Gaza yesterday, slaughtering the occupants, while areas around al-Quds Hospital were continuously targeted...

JERUSALEM – Israeli police yesterday morning quelled a rally against the forced expulsions of Palestinian families from the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan in...

JAILED Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is at immediate risk in Israeli jails, where he has been attacked three times in as many weeks, including...

‘THE entire country must mobilise to defeat this imperialist aggression,’ the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela declared in a defiant statement yesterday. It said: ‘The Bolivarian...

THE ISRAELI government’s move to revoke the licences of 37 international organisations operating in Gaza and the West Bank, including Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors...

IRAN launched more than 200 ballistic missiles on Israel yesterday in response to the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week as well...

HUGE crowds of Gaza residents, old and young, walked northwards with their belongings along the main road next to the Mediterranean Sea coast from...

THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles yesterday as part of its retaliatory...

THE Ukrainian army’s continued bombardment of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is destructive, dangerous and even suicidal, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova...