By Palestine Chronicle Staff 
The senator’s announcement marks the second time that he will seek to halt arms sales to Israel using a resolution of disapproval.
US Senator Bernie Sanders announced on Thursday that he would force votes next week on two resolutions that would block $8.8 billion in arms sales to Israel in support of its genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip.
“These sales, proposed by the Trump…
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was a top spreader of vaccine misinformation during the pandemic. Now he leads America’s health efforts.
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Less than a year after COVID-19 upended life as we know it and killed the first of what would become more than 7 million people, the FDA and other regulators around the world authorized the first mRNA vaccine. Co-developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the vaccine was based on new biotechnology that uses the body’s own machinery to…
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Jamie Gaskarth critiques Trump officials’ disregard for intelligence and defence secrecy risks.
Jamie Gaskarth, a professor of foreign policy & international Relations at Open University, analyses the Trump administration’s apparent lack of respect for the sensitivities surrounding intelligence and defence secrets.
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Turkey intensified its crackdown on anti-government protests on Friday, arresting the lawyer of the jailed Istanbul mayor and targeting more journalists, as the country faces its biggest wave of unrest in more than a decade.
Nine days after the arrest and subsequent jailing of Istanbul’s popular opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, demonstrators were again out on the streets on Thursday night, despite a growing sense of fear.
Overnight, police raided more homes, and Imamoglu — seen as President…
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“The attorney general looks like a lioness when fighting for ‘Jewish democracy,’ but when it comes to [the state’s] relations with Arabs, she turns into [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben Gvir.” This is how Dr. Hassan Jabareen, director of the Palestinian civil rights group Adalah, described Gali Baharav-Miara, the Israeli government’s legal advisor, in an interview with Local Call last year. With the government now pushing ahead with plans to…
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Senators advanced a bipartisan bill on Thursday that would threaten foreign governments with visa bans if they fail to contain Hezbollah activity in their territories.
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Commitments from Abu Dhabi–based asset manager Lunate and the Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund, increased Affinity’s assets by $1.5 billion over a year.
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Tamim Iqbal was admitted to hospital on Monday after suffering chest pains while competing in a match in Bangladesh.
Former Bangladeshi cricket captain Tamim Iqbal has returned home from hospital, days after suffering a massive heart attack during a local match.
The 36-year-old was released on Friday. He was leading Mohammedan Sporting Club in a match of the 50-over Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League on Monday when he was rushed to a nearby hospital, complaining of severe chest…
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Israeli airstrikes in south Lebanon have resulted in casualties and destruction, while Defense Minister Katz threatens further action against Beirut.
Following three Israeli drone strikes, Israeli occupation forces bombed and destroyed a building in Hadath, located in the Southern suburb of Beirut, on Friday.
The building, which was situated next to two schools, was hit during school hours, in an area typically crowded with civilians.
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Two powerful earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 6.4 have hit central Myanmar, causing death and large-scale destruction in both Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand.
Friday’s tremors were also felt elsewhere in the region.
Authorities in Myanmar have imposed a state of emergency in six states after structures collapsed and multiple deaths and injuries were reported.
Here is everything we know about the disaster so far:
About 12:50pm (06:20 GMT), an earthquake of…
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