By Palestine Chronicle Staff 
The Spanish Parliament has taken a significant step by approving a proposal to consider a ban on arms trade with Israel.
The move aligns with growing European sentiment and increasing pressure on Israel to end the starvation of Gaza’s population and halt its ongoing genocide, which has lasted over 18 months.
On Tuesday evening, the Spanish Parliament voted in favor of a motion put…
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Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have laid out their clearest plan yet for the “Golden Dome” missile defence programme, which would include putting weapons in space for the first time.
Speaking from the White House on Tuesday, Trump said he had “officially selected an architecture” for the system, designed to take down “hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles and advanced cruise missiles”.
“I promised the American…
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The new framework unveiled May 20 says new COVID-19 shots should go only to those ages 65 and up or with underlying medical conditions.
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How did the US right become fixated on a debunked conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa?
The administration of US President Donald Trump has granted refugee status to 49 white Afrikaners, echoing a debunked conspiracy theory about “white genocide” in South Africa. The move comes after Trump cut aid to the nation and threatened to boycott meetings with its government. What’s behind Trump’s fixation on South Africa?
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The EU on Tuesday ordered a review of its cooperation deal with Israel and Britain halted trade talks with it as European nations took a tougher line over the Gaza war.
France renewed its commitment to recognise a Palestinian state, a day after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily hit back at Britain, France and Canada for threatening action over his country’s military offensive and blockade of Gaza.
EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas said “a strong majority” of the 27 member…
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Using the gene scissors CRISPR and stem cells, researchers at Stockholm University and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) at King’s College London have managed to identify a common denominator for different gene mutations that all cause the neurological disease ALS. The research shows that ALS-linked dysfunction occurs in the energy factories of nerve cells, the mitochondria, before the cells show other signs of disease, which was not previously known. The study was recently…
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Sets of metabolites found in blood and urine reliably correspond with how much energy from ultra-processed food a person consumes, according to a new study published May 20 in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Erikka Loftfield of the National Cancer Institute, USA, and colleagues.
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) account for more than half of calories consumed in the average American diet, yet their impact on human health remains unclear, in part because it is so difficult to accurately…
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Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a study published May 20 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Bo Liu from Beijing Normal University, China, and colleagues.
Seeing an object and knowing visual information about it, like its usual color, activate the same parts of the brain. Seeing a yellow banana, for example, and knowing that the object represented by the word…
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President Yoweri Museveni’s government has frequently defended military trials, citing national security concerns.
Uganda’s parliament has passed a controversial bill authorising military tribunals for civilians, drawing condemnation from opposition figures and rights groups, who accuse the government of trying to silence opponents, which it denies.
The practice has long been used in Uganda, but was struck down by the country’s top court in January. The Supreme Court had ruled that the…
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Experts explain the science behind Biden’s advanced prostate cancer diagnosis, including how common it is and what treatments are available.
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