Category: 1. Palestine

A group of seven European nations has called for an end to Israel’s military assault and blockade of Gaza, as the United Nations aid chief says time should not be wasted on an alternative United States-backed proposal to deliver aid to the Palestinian territory.

In a joint statement late on Friday, the leaders of Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovenia, Spain and Norway said they “will not be silent in front of the man-made humanitarian catastrophe that is taking place before our…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The death toll from Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has jumped to 53,272, with 120,673 wounded, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry on Saturday, amid relentless Israeli bombardment.

It added many bodies remain trapped under debris and in the streets, where rescue teams cannot reach them due to ongoing Israeli restrictions and attacks.

It said the bodies of 153 people killed in Israeli attacks arrived at hospitals across Gaza in the past 24…

United States President Donald Trump’s tour of the Middle East this week is his first international trip since he started his second term. Conspicuously absent from his itinerary, however, was Washington’s closest ally in the region: Israel. In the US and Israeli media, the apparent snub has fuelled talk of a growing rift between Trump and his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Contributors:
Diana Buttu – Human rights lawyer and analyst
Dana Mills – Writer, +972 magazine and…

Poland will hold the first round of voting in its presidential election on Sunday.

This is a hotly contested race between two main candidates – one from Civic Platform, the lead party in the ruling Civic Coalition, and the other an independent backed by the main opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS).

While much of the power rests with the prime minister and parliament in Poland, the president is able to veto legislation and has influence over military and foreign policy decisions. The…

Liverpool, England – “I love it when it gets like this,” exclaimed the man beside me as he rubbed his hands with glee.

It was the Halloween of 2009 and in the gloom of an early winter’s afternoon, Goodison Park was at its best.

Everton were playing Aston Villa in a league match, which was becoming increasingly bad-tempered. Two late red cards, an appalling referee and the floodlights taking full effect. It was the perfect recipe for a big bowl of Goodison fury.

The game finished as…

The men were charged with engaging in conduct likely to assist a foreign intelligence service, police said.

British police say they have charged three Iranians with suspected espionage for Iran’s intelligence services from August 2024 to February 2025.

The police said in a statement on Saturday that the three men were charged with offences under the National Security Act following a major counterterrorism investigation.

Mostafa Sepahvand, 39, Farhad Javadi Manesh, 44, and Shapoor Qalehali…

In the latest episode of the TV game show, “The White House on Uber: How to pre-purchase a US President”, it appeared, fleetingly, as if the host was reading from the right script.

US President Donald Trump said in Saudi Arabia that liberal interventionism was a disaster. That’s true. He said you can’t break and remake nations. Post-Soviet Russia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen are each testimony to that.

He stopped bombing Yemen and reversed decades of sanctions on…