Category: 1. Palestine

The embattled mayor of Istanbul is the opposition party’s candidate for the next presidential election, scheduled to take place in 2028.

The embattled mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, has been chosen as the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate for the next presidential election, scheduled to take place in 2028.

Imamoglu, who was detained on Wednesday, is widely seen as the top challenger of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. His arrest has prompted widespread protests,…

A US deportation flight carrying 199 people has landed in Venezuela. The resumption of flights comes after Donald Trump accused Nicolas Maduro of not accepting deportees at a sufficiently “rapid pace” and sent over 200 Venezuelans to a Salvadoran mega prison.

The Israeli occupation has a history of breaching agreements intended to end assaults. Whenever a ceasefire is signed, Palestinians hope that Israel will honor it, as they have experienced years of Israeli attacks on Gaza. However, Israel repeatedly confirms the opposite.

On March 18, Israel violated the ceasefire agreement signed with Hamas on January 19 to end its assault on Gaza. Although the ceasefire was fragile, Hamas adhered to it. Every time I hear people in Gaza discuss the…

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Hossam Shabat is one of two media workers killed in Israeli strikes on Monday.

An Al Jazeera journalist has been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, one of two media workers killed in attacks.

Hossam Shabat, a journalist for the Al Jazeera Mubasher channel, was killed in northern Gaza on Monday. Witnesses told the network that his car was targeted in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya.

Earlier, the Israeli army killed journalist Mohammad Mansour, who…

Over the past few months, thousands of people returned to their homes in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, where they faced threats from unexploded ordinances and lack of access to water, food, and safe shelter. Many were forced to handle war debris, which may pose long-term health risks.

Our new research from Fallujah, Iraq published today by the Costs of War project at Brown University reveals just how dangerous this debris can be. Two decades after the US-led invasion and almost a decade after…

The trial of French actor Gerard Depardieu, who has been charged with sexually assaulting two women during a film shoot in 2021, has begun in a Paris court.

It is thought to be a pivotal moment in France’s #MeToo movement.

On Monday, Depardieu, 76, sat on a seat opposite the judge while the two plaintiffs were also present in the courtroom.

Prosecutors alleged the assaults against the women, whose full identities have not been revealed, took place during the filming of Les Volets Verts…

On March 3, Tucker Carlson, an American political commentator popular among MAGA conservatives and the global far right, held an odd and disturbing interview with South African right-wing activist and deputy CEO of Afriforum, Ernst Roets. Afriforum is a right-wing South African NGO dedicated to advancing the interests of Afrikaners –  descendants of mainly Dutch colonial settlers who formalised the segregationist system of apartheid in 1948.

The discussion, titled “Man charged with…