Category: 1. Palestine

The Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has 15 days to make her case after the country’s high court suspended her for a breach of ethics.

This comes after a phone call between Shinawatra and Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen, discussing an earlier border dispute.

A leaked audio of that call, in which the prime minister referred to Hun Sen as “uncle” and appeared to criticise a Thai army…

Despite massive majority, Starmer could not get party fully behind signature legislation to pare down spending.

United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has won a key vote in Parliament on a signature plan to overhaul the country’s welfare system.

But the 335 to 260 House of Commons victory on Tuesday largely rang hollow, with Starmer forced to soften his promised cuts amid pushback from members of his own Labour Party, in what could represent a crisis for his leadership.

“Welfare…

Britain’s political and media class are currently seething with performative rage over a slogan chanted at a music festival last weekend. After rap duo Bob Vylan led the Glastonbury crowd in a chorus of “Death, death to the IDF,” the incident was almost universally decried as a carnival of antisemitism — from national newspapers to the UK culture minister, the chief rabbi and Jewish organizations, the director of Glastonbury, and even the BBC, which was…

New York City (Quds News Network)- The Trump administration has raised the possibility of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York, of his US citizenship over his Muslim identity and pro-Palestine views. Muslim Americans in New York and across the US said the country is seeing a spike in Islamophobic rhetoric in response to Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic primaries.

Andy Ogles, a rightwing Republican congressman for Tennessee, called for his…

North Korea President Kim Jong Un was shown honouring coffins of soldiers killed while fighting for Russia in Ukraine. The footage released Tuesday aired during a performance marking the one-year anniversary of a military pact signed by the two countries.

Gaza (Quds News Network)- More than 82 percent of the total area of the Gaza Strip is currently under Israeli forced displacement threats, and people have nowhere to flee, the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Tuesday.

In recent weeks, displacement orders
reached their highest point. Israel began a full purge of civilians from northern Gaza and Rafah in the south. The Israeli military also launched a new operation called “Gideon’s Chariots.”

The assault…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

In November last year, Odeh was forcibly removed from the Knesset after he accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being a “serial killer of peace.”

A parliamentary committee in the Israeli Knesset voted on Monday to advance the impeachment of Palestinian lawmaker Ayman Odeh over remarks he made welcoming the release of Palestinian detainees.

According to Israel’s Channel 12,…

In the predawn darkness of June 13, Israel launched a “preemptive” attack on Iran. Explosions rocked various parts of the country. Among the targets were nuclear sites at Natanz and Fordo, military bases, research labs, and senior military residences. By the end of the operation, Israel had killed at least 974 people while Iranian missile strikes in retaliation had killed 28 people in Israel.

Israel described its actions as anticipatory self-defence, claiming Iran was mere weeks away…

An al-Qaeda affiliate earlier claimed responsibility for ‘coordinated and high-quality attacks’ in the country.

Mali’s armed forces have killed 80 fighters in response to a series of simultaneous and coordinated attacks on military posts across the country, according to a video statement released by the military.

“The enemy suffered significant losses in every location where they engaged with the security and defence forces,” Souleymane Dembele, the army’s spokesperson, said in a…