Category: 1. Palestine

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Israeli warplanes launched heavy air raids on vast areas across Yemen on Monday evening.

According to Israel’s Channel 12, more than 30 Israeli Air Force aircraft carried out extensive attacks on Yemen.

Yemeni media reported that joint American-Israeli strikes targeted Bajil District in Hudaydah, western Yemen, alongside six air raids on Hudaydah’s port.

The news site Axios quoted an Israeli official as saying that the strikes were in retaliation for a missile…

Erin Patterson, 50, is on trial for allegedly murdering three people with poisonous mushroom-laced beef wellingtons.

An Australian woman accused of murdering three of her former in-laws with poisonous mushroom-laced beef wellingtons refused offers of help serving the dish, the sole survivor of the deadly lunch has told a court.

Erin Patterson, 50, is on trial for the alleged murder of her estranged husband’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and his aunt, Heather Wilkinson, in a case that…

Rome, Italy – When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, he faced loud calls to expand the role of women within the Roman Catholic Church.

To some extent, he delivered. Francis opened key meetings to women; allowed them to senior roles within the powerful central bureaucracy of the Church; and appointed the first female head of the Vatican governorate. For some, these were giant strides for a deeply conservative institution. But to many others, Francis’s moves fell short of what was needed…

Zia’s presence raises pressure on the interim government to set a date for elections nine months after her archrival Hasina’s ouster.

Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has returned to Dhaka after four months of medical treatment in the British capital, London, raising pressure on the country’s interim government to set a date for national elections.

Zia’s return on Tuesday came at a critical juncture for Bangladesh, which has been governed by an interim administration…

Malakal, South Sudan – One morning in mid-April, Nyandeng Meeth was fetching water from a borehole in Mat town, in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, before heading home to cook for her nine children and open her small street stall.

Suddenly, the sound of gunfire and shelling tore through the familiarity and routine of the 50-year-old mother’s everyday life. She remembers the town being plunged into chaos as people scrambled to save what they could – their families or a few…

Aaron Gordon’s late 3-pointer handed Denver Nuggets a huge Game 1 road win over the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder.

Aaron Gordon scored a last-gasp 3-pointer and Nikola Jokic produced a 42-point masterpiece as the Denver Nuggets stunned the No.1 seeded Oklahoma City Thunder 121-119 in a dramatic NBA Western Conference second round series opener.

Nuggets forward Gordon drained a 25-foot effort from outside the arc with four seconds remaining to snatch victory on Monday against a Thunder…

Madrid (Quds News Network)- Spain will provide more than $560,000 to support UN investigations into human rights abuses and possible war crimes committed in Gaza, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Monday.

“With the aim of ending these violations of international law and with the desire to ensure accountability, I announce that we will support the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in increasing its investigative efforts into human rights violations and…

Dublin (Quds News Network)- Irish Foreign Minister Simon Harris described Israel’s plans to expand its assault on Gaza as “alarming” and “would result in further deaths, casualties and untold suffering for the Palestinian population who already face a dire humanitarian situation”.

“What is happening to the people of Gaza is despicable and unconscionable,” the Irish minister for foreign affairs and trade, as well as for defence wrote on X on Monday, calling it a…