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Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- The co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land condemned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its response to the violent Israeli attack on his fellow, Hamdan Ballal. Ballal was beaten by Israeli settlers and arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Monday.

Israeli forces released Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal on Tuesday after kidnapping him following a brutal attack by Israeli settlers in…

On Monday, Ghassan Abdel Basset and his family left their home in the occupied West Bank to visit a relative.

They were going to break their fast together during the holy month of Ramadan.

Later that evening, their neighbours informed them that Israeli settlers had invaded their home.

Ghassan hurried back to confront the settlers, but the Israeli army intervened to block him and his family from getting back to their house.

The settlers claimed they bought the home, but the Abdel Basset…

Just days after the collapse of the Awami League government in Bangladesh in August 2024 following deadly street protests that culminated in the dramatic flight of then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the country’s newly appointed banking chief began a cat-and-mouse hunt for vast amounts of money smuggled abroad by its political and business elites.

Bangladesh Bank has set up 11 specialist teams to track the assets of 11 powerful families accused of laundering billions of dollars to the…

Trump’s new executive order targets what he describes as the spread of a “divisive, race-centered ideology” at museums.

United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to remove what he describes as “corrosive” anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum complex.

In one of his latest executive orders signed on Thursday, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, Trump placed Vice President JD Vance in charge of…

Magnitude 7.7 and 6.4 earthquakes have struck Myanmar, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), with reports of strong tremors felt in Thailand and elsewhere in the region.

The first tremor hit 16 kilometres (10 miles) northwest of the city of Sagaing at a depth of 10 kilometres at about 12:50 pm local time (06:20 GMT) on Friday, USGS said.

Meanwhile, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said the jolt measured magnitude 7.9, according to the Xinhua news agency, with a…

London (Quds News Network)- Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s international editor, has accused Israel of blocking journalists from entering Gaza because of scenes “they don’t want us to see”.

Bowen said that in the last 18 months of Israeli assault, he had been granted only half a day with the Israeli forces within Gaza. He said that the lack of access was part of an attempt to “obfuscate what’s going on, and to inject this notion of doubt into information that comes out”.

He…

Cairo (Quds News Network)- Egypt, one of the mediators in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, has reportedly received positive signals regarding a new ceasefire proposal that includes a transitional phase. Meanwhile, the U.S. has also presented Hamas with a new proposal via Qatar. These ceasefire talks come as Israel continues to bombard the Palestinian enclave, killing and injuring hundreds.

Egypt’s Proposal

The proposal suggests Hamas release five Israeli captives each week,…