Category: 1. Palestine

Opposition figure Leonid Volkov, based in Lithuania, has been found guilty on dozens of charges by a military court.

Russian dissident and Kremlin critic Leonid Volkov, a prominent ally of the late opposition leader Alexey Navalny, has been sentenced in absentia to 18 years in prison.

The sentence was handed down by a Russian military court on Wednesday that found Volkov guilty on dozens of charges, including spreading fake news about the war in Ukraine and “justifying…

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Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, former land minister, was featured in Al Jazeera’s investigation, The Minister’s Millions.

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen properties in the United Kingdom owned by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, Bangladesh’s former Minister of Land, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal.

The move follows legal requests from Bangladesh authorities to take action against assets owned by Chowdhury, a political ally of deposed Bangladesh Prime…

The body of Thai farmworker Nattapong Pinta, who was kidnapped by Hamas from Israel on Oct. 7 and later killed in captivity, was returned to Thailand. He was one of 31 Thai farmworkers taken to Gaza. At least 45 Thai nationals have died in the conflict.

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The “emergency meeting” will centre the legal obligations of states, as determined by the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of July 2024.

The Hague Group, co-chaired by Colombia and South Africa, will hold an emergency ministerial meeting in Bogota next month to address…

Rising Tides, Shifting Powers delves into the poignant reality of Pacific islanders grappling with the existential threat of climate change and the complex geopolitics involving the United States and China. The episode opens with Millicent Barty, a climate activist and entrepreneur, whose daily life exemplifies the immediate dangers faced by Pacific communities. As sea levels rise,…

Renewed violence by armed groups Boko Haram and ISIL (ISIS) has forced thousands of people to leave their homes in Nigeria.

Despite repeated government pledges, the military has been unable to end the unrest.

So why is it continuing – and what threats does it pose?

Presenter: 

Elizabeth Puranam

Guests: 

Kabir Adamu – Managing director at Beacon Security and Intelligence in Abuja

David Otto – Deputy director of…

Israeli forces killed two Palestinian brothers and injured more than 30 others in a military raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, which lasted for 28 hours. The two brothers were identified as Nidal and Khaled Amira, ages 35 and 40, respectively.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its teams gave first aid to more than 80 Palestinians during the Israeli raid, 55 of whom suffered choking by breathing tear gas, and the rest were injured by…

The Sudanese Armed Forces say they have withdrawn from the area as part of its ‘defensive arrangements’.

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have said their fighters have seized a strategic zone on the border with Egypt and Libya, as the regular government-aligned army, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), announced its withdrawal from the area.

The announcements on Wednesday came a day after SAF accused forces loyal to eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar of launching a…

A Myanmar military jet crashed on Tuesday in Sagaing Region, an area that has seen intense fighting during Myanmar’s civil war. The military blamed engine failure, while a rebel group claimed it shot down the plane.