Category: 1. Palestine

Still, even voters who reject Correa’s legacy might be inclined to vote for Gonzalez out of disillusionment with the status quo.

President Noboa has faced criticism for human rights abuses and executive overreach during his short term in office. Some even say he has flashed an authoritarian streak, just like Correa.

Voting is compulsory in Ecuador, and voters demonstrated their displeasure at the polls in the first round of this year’s presidential race. Null and blank votes made up nearly 9…

The administration of President Donald Trump has moved to end legal protections for thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians legally living in the United States.

On Friday, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the decision, which will affect approximately 14,600 Afghans and 7,900 Cameroonians.

Those individuals were able to live in the US under a designation called “temporary protected status” or TPS.

The US government typically offers TPS to individuals already…

A United States federal judge has called it “extremely troubling” that the administration of President Donald Trump failed to comply with her court order to provide details on the status of a Maryland resident illegally deported to El Salvador.

At a tense hearing on Friday, US District Judge Paula Xinis demanded that the administration identify the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to El Salvador on March 15.

She also required daily updates on the administration’s…

By Robert Inlakesh

The PNGO demanded that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the United Nations officially declare Gaza a famine zone, in addition to putting out a call for countries to intervene.

Israel has imposed a complete blockade on Gaza since March 2, blocking all humanitarian aid from entering the already unlivable occupied territory. In light of this, the leading Palestinian NGO Network has launched an…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Precision strikes on Tel Aviv and the Red Sea mark Yemen’s latest response to Israeli aggression and US intervention.

The Yemeni Armed Forces, affiliated with the Ansarallah movement, announced on Friday that their drone unit carried out a precise military operation targeting two Israeli military sites in Tel Aviv. The strikes were conducted using two ‘Yaffa’ drones.

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Israel and Turkiye have been holding closed-door meetings in Azerbaijan to work out ways to avoid direct conflict in Syria.

Both have a military presence there, and both accuse the other of threatening regional security.

Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes on Syria since Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, destroying military infrastructure and hardware.

Turkiye says these attacks and Israel’s expansion into…

Al Jazeera takes a closer look at Premier League champions Manchester City’s clash with bogey team, Crystal Palace.

Who: Manchester City vs Crystal Palace
What: English Premier League
Where: Etihad Stadium, Manchester, United Kingdom
When: Saturday at 12:30pm (11:40 GMT)

Follow Al Jazeera Sport‘s live text and photo commentary stream.

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said Jack Grealish and Phil Foden “don’t feel good” after they suffered abuse in separate incidents during last…

United States consumer sentiment plunged in April, marking the fourth month in a row of declines – widely seen as a pointed reaction to President Donald Trump’s escalating trade wars, which have fuelled concerns over potential job losses and rising inflation.

The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan’s closely watched consumer sentiment index, released Friday, fell 11 percent in March to 50.8 percent, the lowest since the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year,…

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Gaza inches closer towards very, very deep hunger,” according to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).

“All basic supplies are running out. The prices of commodities have exponentially increased over the past one month plus since the Israeli authorities put the siege on the Gaza Strip,” Juliette Touma, Director of Communications at the UNRWA, said on Thursday.

“It means babies, children are going to bed hungry. Every day…

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Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to deport Khalil over his participation in pro-Palestine university protests.

A United States immigration judge has ruled that the deportation case against Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, a month after the Columbia University graduate student was detained over his involvement in pro-Palestine protests.

Judge Jamee Comans made the determination on Friday at the end of a nearly two-hour hearing.

Comans said the government…