Category: 1. Palestine

Reports come after US president teased the announcement of agreement with an unnamed country.

United States President Donald Trump is set to announce a trade deal with the United Kingdom on Thursday, US media have reported, in what would be the first such agreement since he rolled out his sweeping tariffs.

The reports come after Trump on Wednesday teased the announcement of a deal with an unnamed country on social media.

“Big News Conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 A.M., The Oval Office,…

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – As the camera panned around a home blown up by the mortar fire in Poonch, an embattled hill city perched on the disputed border between India and Pakistan, a disembodied female voice cried out.

“This is a calamity.”

The video, shared with Al Jazeera by locals in Poonch, revealed a collapsed staircase, large craters in the walls, and a courtyard cluttered with rubble and clothes, and painted in blood.

“Everything I built is in ruins,” the…

Here is where things stand on Thursday, May 8:

Fighting

• A three-day ceasefire declared by Russia to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany came into effect at midnight, Moscow time (21:00 GMT, Wednesday). Ukraine has not committed to abide by the ceasefire, proposing a 30-day cessation in fighting instead.

• Russian aircraft launched guided bombs on the Sumy region of northern Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday morning despite the ceasefire, Ukraine’s air force…

Pro-Palestinian student group says it staged demonstration to protest against university profiting from ‘imperialist violence’.

Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists have staged a protest at Columbia University in the United States.

Footage posted on social media showed demonstrators standing on tables, chanting and beating drums inside the university’s main library.

Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a pro-Palestinian student group, said it had occupied the library to protest the…

On Wednesday morning, India carried out multiple missile attacks on parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, in which at least 26 people were killed, including a three-year-old child.

India has claimed its Operation Sindoor targeted nine sites with “terrorist infrastructure”.

In response, Pakistan has claimed it has brought down five Indian planes – but India has not commented on this claim. At least 10 civilians have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir due to…