Category: 1. Palestine

Red Bull boss exits the team after a stellar two decades that yielded eight Formula One Drivers’ World Championships.

Red Bull have sacked team principal Christian Horner and appointed Laurent Mekies as the Briton’s replacement, the Formula One team announced.

The 51-year-old Horner was the longest-serving team principal, having been in the position since Red Bull made its Formula One debut in 2005.

Frenchman Mekies joins from Red Bull’s sister team Racing Bulls. Alan Permane, currently…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli forces opened fire on starving civilians waiting for food near an aid distribution site run by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in southern Gaza, killing at least seven people.

Local and medical sources confirmed at least seven people were killed and others injured while waiting for food after Israeli forces opened fire at a crowd seeking aid near the GHF aid site, north of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.

Since the GHF…

Europe’s top human rights court has ruled that Russia violated international law in Ukraine, marking the first time an international court has found Moscow responsible for human rights abuses since the full-scale invasion in 2022.

Judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg are ruling on four cases brought by Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia, encompassing a wide range of alleged human rights violations since the start of the conflict, including the downing of…

The release of DeepSeek’s R1 – China’s powerful new open-source AI model – has sent shockwaves through the global tech industry. Offered for free and royalty-free, it has disrupted financial markets, challenged the United States’ dominance in artificial intelligence, and prompted fears that Silicon Valley’s tightly guarded business model may no longer hold.

DeepSeek’s open-source launch is widely seen as a key trigger behind a trillion-dollar tech sell-off in the US, signalling…

In the latest instalment of the “can’t-make-this-sh*t-up” contest in global politics and diplomacy, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated United States President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In other words, the person currently presiding over the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has proposed that the world’s top peacemaking prize be awarded to the primary enabler of that genocide – the man who in March announced that he was “sending…

Rescue operations under way in Vadodara district after several vehicles fall into river.

At least nine people have been killed after the collapse of a bridge over a river in India’s western Gujarat state, according to authorities.

Gujarat’s Health Minister Rushikesh Patel said several vehicles fell into Mahisagar River when a portion of Gambhira Bridge collapsed on Wednesday morning.

The bridge in the state’s Vadodara district had been constructed in 1985, added Patel.

Anil Dhameliya, a…

London (Quds News Network)- British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has condemned the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli blockade, warning that the United Kingdom may take further action if the “intolerable” situation continues.

Speaking to the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Lammy criticised the new aid distribution mechanism in Gaza run by US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

Over 750 aid seekers have been…

Kyiv, Ukraine – Former Ukrainian serviceman Andriy Hetman says he has stopped paying attention to United States President Donald Trump’s decisions to halt and resume military aid to Ukraine.

“This time, [Trump] realised he’ll look bad, weak, he’ll look like he’s on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s side,” the 29-year-old, who was demobilised after being wounded in the eastern Donbas region in March, told Al Jazeera.

Trump said on Monday that he reversed the White House’s…

Influential leader records message from prison, saying ‘care and sensitivity’ needed for peace process.

Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has announced the end of the group’s armed struggle against Turkiye, calling for a full shift to democratic politics.

The jailed leader relayed his message via a video recording dated June, which was aired by the PKK-aligned Firat News Agency on Wednesday, describing the shift as a “historic…