Category: 1. Palestine

“A budget is a moral document,” as numerous human rights activists have said over the decades. If that is true, then the so‑called “One Big, Beautiful Bill” represents a grotesque example of the immorality of US leadership in 2025.

It is a budget that slashes Medicare and Medicaid by $930bn over the next decade and could leave as many as 17 million without healthcare insurance. The cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – a food aid scheme for Americans…

Olivier Roy, a professor of Orientalism, joins Centre Stage to talk about the roots of Orientalism and the enduring myth of how only the West represents progress. From colonial-era narratives to modern-day politics, Roy explores how the Global South is still perceived through a Eurocentric lens — and what that says about our civilisation, modernity and the West’s ongoing struggle with pluralism.

This episode is produced in partnership with the International Conference on…

Crackdown on small boat arrivals similar to EU-Turkiye deal, comes as Starmer comes under increasing pressure from the hard right.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are finalising a “one in, one out” scheme to curb crossings of refugees and migrants in small boats across the English Channel.

The leaders are expected to announce the reciprocal returns deal, which would see the United Kingdom deporting people to France in return for a similar number…

Iran links future IAEA cooperation to impartiality, after deadly June conflict with Israel and US.

Iran’s president has warned the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to abandon its “double standards” if it hopes to restore cooperation over the country’s nuclear programme, amid an acute mistrust following Israel and the United States’ attacks on Iranian nuclear sites last month, and the UN nuclear watchdog’s refusal to condemn the strikes.

Speaking to European Council…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The population of Gaza has declined by 10% since the start of the Israeli genocide in October 2023, with over 57,600 people killed, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

Around 57,000 Palestinians have been killed since the assault began, an estimated 2.4% of the total population, including 18,000 children and about 12,000 women, according to the bureau. An additional 100,000 people have left the enclave.

According to the bureau,…

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Israel has agreed to a series of urgent humanitarian measures aimed at easing the crisis in the Gaza Strip, following decisions by its Cabinet and a renewed round of talks with the European Union, the EU’s foreign affairs chief announced Thursday.

EU High Representative and Vice President Kaja Kallas said the measures — either already underway or set to begin in the coming days — reflect a shared understanding that large-scale aid must be delivered…

Multiple Israeli raids have taken place in Nablus, Qalqilya, Tubas, Hebron, Jenin, Bethlehem and Ramallah.

More than 50 Palestinians have been arrested in Israeli military raids across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) says, as the army’s deadly assault on the territory, in tandem with its punishing war on Gaza, escalates.

Multiple raids on Thursday took place in Nablus, Qalqilya, Tubas, Hebron, Jenin, Bethlehem and Ramallah.

ASRA said children,…

Fast fashion has become a global wardrobe staple.

It’s an affordable way to stay on top of ever-evolving trends, but at what cost?

Many items are discarded after just a few wears, with shipping containers of textile waste flooding into India, now known as the world’s textile wasteland.

For workers tasked with recycling these cast-offs from Western countries, the…