Category: 1. Palestine

Those sanctioned engaged in vote-buying and bribery ahead of the country’s 2024 election, the EU says.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on seven individuals and three entities it said are responsible for efforts to destabilise Moldova’s democracy, including through vote-buying and political bribery linked to the country’s 2024 presidential election and referendum on EU accession.

In a statement on Tuesday, the European Council said those sanctioned were engaged in “actions…

Authorities have warned residents to avoid unnecessary travel as waters inundate transportation infrastructure.

Two people have been killed in New Jersey following flash flooding in the northeastern United States that caused travel chaos, authorities said, as the region braced for more heavy rain.

Governor Phil Murphy on Tuesday noted the deaths occurred in the northern New Jersey city of Plainfield, where there were two storm-related deaths on July 3. A third person was killed in North…

Former Brazilian president says he never violated democracy, rejects coup attempt accusations as a ‘witch hunt’.

Brazil’s chief prosecutor has called for a guilty verdict in the case of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, who has denied accusations of leading an alleged coup plot.

“The evidence is clear: the defendant acted systematically, throughout his mandate and after his defeat at the polls, to incite insurrection and the destabilisation of the democratic rule of law,”…

United States inflation rose last month to its highest level since February as President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs push up the cost of a range of goods, including furniture, clothing, and large appliances.

Consumer prices rose 2.7 percent in June from a year earlier, the Labor Department said on Tuesday, up from an annual increase of 2.4 percent in May. On a monthly basis, prices climbed 0.3 percent from May to June, after rising just 0.1 percent the previous month.

Worsening…

Brussels (Quds News Network)- European Union aid chief Hadja Lahbib stated that Israel has not yet fully implemented an agreement with the EU aimed at improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which has been under a suffocating blockade since March and relentless bombardment.

“We have [seen] some positive developments. It’s true that we have trucks that are able to enter, but we don’t know exactly how many. And what is clear is that the agreement is not fully…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people … But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

A leading scholar in the Holocaust and genocide studies, Professor Omer Bartov, has come to the “inescapable conclusion” that Israel “is committing…

Adam has been on my mind lately, more so than usual.

I met Adam in 2018 in the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, which was then under siege and heavy bombardment. In the dilapidated hospital ward, there lay Adam: 10 years old and weighing just over 10 kilograms. Unable to speak or cry, all he could do was make a hoarse sound with every breath. A few days later, Adam died of malnutrition.

A couple of years before that, my colleague Hanaa called from Syria late one night….