Category: 1. Palestine

Artificial intelligence is on full display at an exposition in Washington, DC, where one of the main focuses is how to incorporate AI into weapons systems. Organisers say the technology will lead to a better future, but critics are warning of the dangers that come with the high-tech advances. Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi shows us around.

More than 212 active fires were burning in the country as of Tuesday afternoon, half of which were out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.

Smoke from wildfires burning in three Canadian provinces has covered about a third of the United States, forecasters said, but had little effect on air quality except in New England and parts of New York state and the Midwest.

Alerts were issued on Tuesday for parts of Canada and the neighbouring US, warning of the haze,…

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The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) announced that an elderly Palestinian detainee has died while in Israeli custody.

They reported that the death of 70-year-old detainee Mohammad Ibrahim Hussein Abu Habel, from Gaza, adds to the growing number of Palestinians who have died as a result of the intensified and systematic abuses perpetrated by the Israeli prison system since the onset of the…

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Vice President and Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hussein al-Sheikh, and the Advisor to the French President for Middle East and North Africa Affairs, Anne-Claire Legendre, discussed and shared today political visions for ending the war of genocide against the Palestinian people and recognizing the Palestinian state.

During a meeting in Ramallah, al-Sheikh conveyed the greetings of President Mahmoud…

He has been dubbed the “Dutch Donald Trump”.

Geert Wilders has pulled his Party for Freedom (PVV) out of the coalition that governs the Netherlands in a row over immigration policy.

It has plunged the NATO ally into political turmoil and new elections.

After years in opposition, the PVV won the most votes in 2023 by tapping into rising populism in Europe with promises to reduce immigration.

Wilders…

A convicted Swedish member of ISIL has gone on trial in Stockholm, accused of war crimes for his role in the horrific 2015 killing of a captured Jordanian pilot, who was burned alive in Syria.

“Osama Krayem has, together and in agreement with other perpetrators belonging to IS [ISIL], killed Maaz al-Kassasbeh,” prosecutor Reena Devgun told the district court on Wednesday.

“Osama Krayem, in uniform and armed, guarded and led the victim Moaz al-Kassasbeh to a metal cage, where the latter…

In “China’s Pacific Wave”, the episode delves into the economic tug-of-war between the United States and China in the Pacific, seen through the experiences of locals like Jacob George, a Vanuatuan customary land owner confronting Chinese encroachment, and Maikolo Ikahihfo, a Tongan stall owner amid the rise of Chinese businesses.

Highlighting the Pacific nations’…

Tucked within the proposed “Big Beautiful Bill”, the more than 1,000-page tax and spending overhaul that United States President Donald Trump wants to see enacted in law, is a provision that is being referred to as a “revenge tax”.

The “Enforcement of Remedies Against Unfair Foreign Taxes” in Section 899 targets countries that the Trump administration believes impose unfair or discriminatory taxes on US companies and individuals, and will allow the US to impose additional taxes…

By Jamal Kanj

In Gaza, it is not just food aid sites that have become death traps. Ambulances are targets. First responders, doctors, and even their children have become “legitimate” military objectives.

Throughout its long history of ethnic cleansing and occupation, Israel has remained consistent in its tactics: lie, deny, and distort the truth—often with the backing, or at least the indulgence, of Western powers….