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On Tuesday, US authorities detained and revoked the student visa of Tufts University student, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national who had voiced her support for Palestinians affected by the Gaza war.

Ozturk’s arrest is the latest instance of President Donald Trump’s administration acting against international college students over their support for Palestinians during the Gaza solidarity encampments that erupted across university campuses last year. Students who protested for Palestine…

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) has warned of a “health disaster” among Palestinian detainees at Israel’s infamous Megiddo Prison due to the spread of contagious diseases.

PPS said it had documented reports from detainees of outbreaks of scabies and other contagious diseases, stating that most of the detainees “suffer from health problems and face difficult and tragic detention conditions”.

It accused Israeli prison…

A power-sharing deal between Kiir and Machar is unravelling, threatening a return to South Sudan’s blood civil war.

South Sudan’s opposition has said that the overnight arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar, longtime rival to President Salva Kiir, has invalidated their 2018 peace deal and risked plunging the country back into war.

A convoy of 20 heavily armed vehicles entered Machar’s residence in the capital, Juba, late on Wednesday and arrested him, according to a statement…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Ozturk’s detention reportedly follows a campaign by Canary Mission, a pro-Israel website that blacklists pro-Palestine students and activists.

Six masked US immigration agents arrested a Turkish doctoral student on a street near her home in Massachusetts on Tuesday evening.

In a now-viral video capturing her arrest, Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, is seen…

When addressing Congress for the first time as US president on March 4, Donald Trump said, “Europe has sadly spent more money buying Russian oil and gas than they have spent on defending Ukraine.”

Trump has not been known for his statistical accuracy, but on this occasion, he may be right.

A report released on Thursday by Ember, an energy think tank, estimates that European purchases of Russian gas amounted to 21.9 billion euros ($23.6bn) last year, compared with 18.7 billion euros…

Sudan’s army has scored some major victories in the capital, Khartoum, against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as the war between them nears the two-year mark.

But the fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and its paramilitary rival, which has devastated the country, appears far from over.

There are fears now that the country’s territorial integrity could be jeopardised as the warring parties, each of whom has their own backers, look to entrench themselves in captured…

France urges multilateralism and deepened ties with China amid trade and security tensions with the US.

France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has called for a “powerful Franco-Chinese partnership” in the face of geopolitical upheaval caused by the Trump administration’s America First policy as he met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi for talks on the Ukraine war and Beijing’s trade row with Europe.

“More than ever, the current context requires a powerful Franco-Chinese…