Category: 1. Palestine

Deadly clashes between nomads and farmers have multiplied recently in the Benue and Plateau states.

At least 17 people are reported to have been killed as suspected nomadic cattle herders carried out twin attacks in central Nigeria‘s Benue State.

Police spokesperson Anene Sewuese Catherine said in a statement on Friday that “a large number of suspected militia had invaded” a region of Benue State overnight. The attack came amid a resurgence of deadly clashes between herders and farmers,…

Government says on ‘maximum alert’ due to bid by rivals to kill re-elected president.

Ecuador has declared a state of “maximum alert” over an assassination plot against President Daniel Noboa.

In a statement entitled “The revenge of the bad losers” issued early on Saturday, the Ministry of Government said “all security protocols have been activated” due to the threat emanating from “criminal organizations, in collusion with political groups defeated at the polls”.

Noboa…

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- A Palestinian prisoners’ rights group has warned that Israel is attempting to kill detained Palestinian leader and Legislative Council member Mohammad Jamal Al-Natsheh, also known as Abu Hammam, through brutal torture and medical neglect.

In a statement issued Friday, the Prisoners’ Media Office said Al-Natsheh is in a coma after suffering a brain hemorrhage and kidney failure. He was transferred to the infamous Ramleh prison hospital in a…

A trade war that pits the world’s two largest economies against each other is now under way. Alongside the tariff battle is a heated battle of narratives and messages between the two countries.

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Andy Mok – Senior Research Fellow, Center for China and Globalisation
Jude Russo – Managing Editor, The American Conservative
Isaac Stone Fish – CEO, Strategy Risks
Yun Sun – Director of China Program, Stimson Center

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Speakers from Asia, Europe, and the Muslim world voiced urgent support for Palestine and condemned Israel’s genocide on Gaza.

Parliament speakers from 13 countries gathered in Istanbul on Friday for the Groups of Parliaments in Support of Palestine meeting, where they issued strong condemnations of Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip. 

The leaders called on international organizations to take…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- A powerful image of a wounded Palestinian child has won the top prize at the 2025 World Press Photo awards. The photograph, taken by Palestinian journalist Samar Abu Elouf, captures the haunting aftermath of Israel’s war on Gaza’s children — through the eyes of a 9-year-old boy who lost both arms in an airstrike.

Abu Elouf, herself a survivor of the genocide, took the photo in Doha, where the child, Mahmoud Ajjour, is now recovering. The image, made…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Gustavo Petro linked the Passion of Christ to the ongoing genocide in Gaza in a pointed Holy Week message.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Friday strongly criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza, drawing a parallel between the suffering of Palestinians and the Passion of Jesus Christ.

“At the moment of the Passion and death of Jesus, let us reflect on the Palestinian people, from where he came,…

These are the key events on day 1,150 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is where things stand on Saturday, April 19:

Fighting

• Russia launched eight missiles and 87 drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine on Saturday, causing damage in five regions across the country, the Ukrainian air force said. Air defence units shot down 33 Russian drones while another 36 were redirected by electronic warfare. Damage was recorded in five regions in the south, northeast and east.
• A Russian missile attack…