Category: 1. Palestine

Islamabad, Pakistan – Eleven days after gunmen shot 26 people dead in the scenic valley of Baisaran in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Pahalgam, India and Pakistan stand on the brink of a military standoff.

The nuclear-armed neighbours have each announced a series of tit-for-tat steps against the other since the attack on April 22, which India has implicitly blamed Pakistan for, even as Islamabad has denied any role in the killings.

India has suspended its participation in the Indus Waters…

Cuts will reportedly take place over several years and be accomplished through reduced hiring as opposed to layoffs.

United States President Donald Trump’s administration is planning significant personnel cuts at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other major US spy units, according to The Washington Post, in a move seen as part of his bid to downsize key government agencies.

The CIA plans to cut 1,200 positions, along with thousands more from other parts of the US intelligence…

Government says 100km-long Texas National Defense Area runs east from the Texas-New Mexico border in El Paso.

The United States military has created a second military zone along the border with Mexico, adding an area in Texas where troops can temporarily detain migrants or trespassers, following another zone newly designated in New Mexico last month.

The announcement of a new military encampment comes as President Donald Trump has launched an aggressive anti-immigration crackdown since taking…

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The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) displaced a Palestinian family after forcing it to demolish its own house in the east Jerusalem district of Issawiya on Friday at the pretext of unlicensed construction.

The homeowner, Mahmoud Alyan, told SAFA news agency that the Israeli high court had given him 21 days to demolish his house at his own expense, or else he would have to pay 70,000 shekels in demolition costs to the Israeli municipality.

“I had no…

These are the key events on day 1,164 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is where things stand on Saturday, May 3:

Fighting

• A resident was killed in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region when a fallen attack drone detonated as the victim was trying to carry it away from a residential house.

• At least 46 people were injured after Russia launched a mass drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, hitting a high-rise apartment block and triggering fires.

• Kharkiv’s Mayor Ihor…

A United States district judge has struck down an executive order from President Donald Trump that targeted the law firm Perkins Coie over its representation of his Democratic election rival Hillary Clinton.

On Friday in Washington, DC, Judge Beryl A Howell issued a five-page order declaring the executive order unconstitutional.

“Executive Order 14230 is unlawful, null and void in its entirety and therefore should be disregarded,” Howell wrote in the order.

The ruling is the first to…

Singapore – David Wee has lived in the same terrace house with his family in the east of Singapore his entire life.

But over more than 40 years, the Wee family have been a part of five different electoral constituencies.

Singaporean electoral boundary changes occurring shortly before every general election have led government critics to raise accusations of gerrymandering – deliberately manipulating constituency boundaries to favour a particular political party.

According to…

Former Prime Minister Ali Larayedh and the opposition Ennahdha party have denounced the trial as politically motivated.

A Tunisian court has sentenced former Prime Minister Ali Larayedh to 34 years in prison over accusations he facilitated the departure of fighters to Syria – a charge the opposition figure strongly denies.

“I was neither sympathetic, nor complicit, nor neutral, nor lenient towards violence, terrorism,” Larayedh told the judge on Friday, rejecting what he and his…