Category: 1. Palestine

Argentinians are mourning the death of their compatriot Pope Francis, who served as the archbishop of Buenos Aires and was known for working with the poor in the city before ascending to the top of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Argentinian government has announced seven days of mourning for Francis, who died on Monday at age 88.

“As Argentinians, we are orphaned,” street sweeper Javier Languenari told the AFP news agency outside the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral early on Monday….

Visit will include talks with PM Modi as New Delhi is seeking to avoid sweeping 26 percent Trump tariffs.

United States Vice President JD Vance has arrived in India for a four-day visit as New Delhi looks to avoid US tariffs, negotiate a bilateral trade deal with Washington and strengthen ties with the administration of President Donald Trump.

Vance was meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, the first day of his largely personal visit. He was greeted with a hug by the Indian…

Iran says it will brief China this week in advance of a third round of talks with the United States on its nuclear programme, as Iranian officials separately accused Israel of seeking to “undermine and disrupt the diplomatic process”.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit Beijing on Tuesday to discuss the latest talks with the administration of US President Donald Trump on the country’s nuclear programme, spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said on Monday.

The trip echoes

The Israeli army has described its killing of 15 emergency workers in Gaza and burying them and their vehicles as a “professional error”.

The bodies of 14 humanitarian workers were found in a mass grave along with their crushed vehicles a week after coming under Israeli fire in late March. One body had been found a few days before.

The army said it had “shrouded” the bodies with cloth and sand to protect them until humanitarian organisations could retrieve them.

Israel had blocked…

BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN/

Palestinian refugee camp committees have condemned Israel’s decision to bar entry to a French diplomatic delegation that included members of the French parliament and mayors of cities twinned with Palestinian refugee camps across the West Bank.

The Popular Committees of Palestinian Refugee Camps described the move as a reflection of what they called Israel’s “racist and brutal policies” aimed at isolating the Palestinian people. They…

NEW YORK /PNN / 

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday that the vast majority of Gaza’s population are civilian children, women, and men, suffering indescribable suffering.

The agency affirmed via its Twitter account that nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people, calling for a ceasefire now.

UNRWA currently operates 115 shelters across the Gaza Strip, housing more than 90,000 displaced…

Agency says gangs caused $37bn in losses in Asia as they gain new footholds in Africa, South America, and Middle East.

Asian cybercrime syndicates have caused an estimated $37bn in losses in the East and Southeast Asian regions, with the United Nations warning that the reach of the criminal networks is expanding globally.

In a report released on Monday, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) detailed how Chinese and Southeast Asian gangs have been raking in tens of billions of dollars…