Category: 1. Palestine

These are the key events on day 1,167 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is where things stand on Tuesday, May 6:

Fighting

• Russian attacks on the Donetsk and Sumy regions of eastern Ukraine killed at least three people on Monday, Ukrainian authorities said.
• A Ukrainian drone attack on a car in Russia’s Kursk region killed two women, Governor Alexander Khinstein said in a post on Telegram.
  He said a 53-year-old man was also killed when an explosive device was dropped onto his car.
• Russian…

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Drones believed to have been launched by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are said to have struck fuel depot causing huge fire: Reports

Multiple explosions have been heard and a huge fire seen in Port Sudan, though the exact locations and causes were unclear, as Sudan’s civil war rocks the previously quiet city for the third day.

Dark plumes of smoke could be seen emerging from the vicinity of the country’s main maritime port in the city, where…

Pentagon chief says cuts will maximise ‘strategic’ and ‘operational readiness’.

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced steep cuts in the number of top-ranked officers in his latest move to streamline the world’s most powerful military.

In a memo on Monday, Hegseth ordered a 20 percent reduction in the number of four-star generals and admirals – currently the highest-ranked personnel in the US military – as well as a 10 percent reduction in the number of…

US Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon halts funding in escalation of dispute centred around anti-Semitism claims.

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has announced that Harvard University will no longer receive public funding for research in a sharp escalation of its dispute with the top university.

In a letter to Harvard on Monday, US Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon said the elite university had made a “mockery” of higher education and should…

The poet gets the prestigious award for New Yorker essays ‘on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza’ amid war.

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, who has been targeted by pro-Israel groups in the United States for deportation, has won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

Abu Toha received the prestigious award on Monday for essays published in The New Yorker “on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian…

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has dropped charges against seven student protesters from the University of Michigan, citing legal delays and controversies surrounding the US case, which she said has become a “lightning rod of contention”.

The decision on Monday puts an end to the case that started in May 2024 when the students, who pleaded not guilty, were charged with trespassing and resisting a police officer while attending a pro-Palestinian campus protest. 

“We feel…

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli officials say U.S. President Donald Trump has stepped back from ceasefire efforts in Gaza and given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the freedom to act as he sees fit. Gaza is not a top priority for Trump, according to Axios.

Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE next week. He is not expected to stop in Israel. U.S. and Israeli officials say the ongoing genocide makes such a visit politically risky. “Nothing good…