Category: 1. Palestine

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Public broadcaster says Liberals will fall short of majority after winning election race dominated by Trump threats.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party will form a minority government, public broadcaster CBC is projecting, after an election race dominated by concerns over United States President Donald Trump’s threats against Canada.

CBC said on Tuesday afternoon that the Liberals had won enough of the 343 seats in the House of Commons to form a…

Palestinian ambulance driver Assaad al-Nassasra, who survived an Israeli attack in March that killed 15 medics, has been released from Israeli detention. He was among at least 10 Palestinian detainees released on Tuesday, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.

The Israeli far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has wrapped up his weeklong visit to the United States.

The settler leader’s trip drew protests and generated violence, but these developments didn’t stop Ben-Gvir from meeting with Republican lawmakers at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and the U.S. Capitol.

Ben-Gvir has previously been convicted of supporting terrorism and inciting anti-Arab racism. Before running for office, he kept a picture of…

By Fayha Shalash – Ramallah

Last Friday, Shamlawi went to his land when he was suddenly ambushed by five illegal Israeli Jewish settlers, including several youths, who beat him and smashed his phone when he tried to document the assault.

Palestinian farmer Aysar Shamlawi never imagined that a routine visit to his land would turn into a violent ordeal, when he was attacked by a group of illegal Israeli…

It was an election result that looked not just improbable but impossible just a few months ago.

Canada has voted in the Liberal Party for another term in government.

That’s a rare fourth consecutive mandate for the centre-left party.

Mark Carney, a former central banker and economist, will stay on as prime minister.

He’ll be the man sitting across the table from United States President Donald Trump as the two neighbours – and once close allies – confront disagreements on tariffs,…

Aside from the intermittent bombardment and shelling, something more constant preoccupies Muhammad al-Hajj Ahmad, 54. A resident of the Zeitoun neighborhood east of Gaza City, Hajj Ahmad cannot stop thinking about how he is going to feed his seven children, the eldest of whom is 16. Since the beginning of the war, he and his family have relied on food distribution points run by relief organizations, as well as individual and collective initiatives. The last satisfying meal he and his…