Category: 1. Palestine

United States President Donald Trump said this month that his tariffs were bringing in $2bn a day already. The real number turned out to be $192m per day at the time.

While the import revenue has increased slightly since then, it is still nowhere close to what the president had suggested.

On Friday, April 25, according to the most recent data from the US Department of Commerce, the US brought in $285m in customs and certain excise taxes for the day. Thus far in April, the total has hit more…

Japan’s Ishiba and Philippines’s Marcos meet in Manila as nations confront China’s assertiveness in South China Sea.

The leaders of Japan and the Philippines have pledged to deepen their security ties, including increased intelligence sharing, as they grapple with territorial disputes with China.

On his first visit to the Philippines since assuming office in October, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Tuesday that the two countries oppose “attempts to change the status quo…

People cheered and danced in Spain’s streets as power was restored following a massive, hours-long blackout. Spain and Portugal, which was also impacted, had nearly full power back by early Tuesday. The cause of the outage remains unclear.

When we were children, my siblings and I regularly spent our pocket money on new books. Our mother had instilled in us a passionate love for books. Reading wasn’t just a hobby; it was a way of living.

I still remember the day our parents surprised us with a home library. It was a tall and wide piece of furniture with lots of shelves that they had placed in the living room. I was just five years old, but I recognised the sacredness of its corner from the very first moment.

My father was…

Since taking office in January, United States President Donald Trump has been hyping about the performance of the US economy.

“In the first four years, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country,” Trump (falsely) said on April 17 while meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. “I think we’re going to do even better this time,” he added, referring to his first term between 2016 and 2020.

At a March 24 Cabinet meeting, he said, “We have numbers, and we…

Spain and Portugal have regained access to electricity after one of Europe’s worst blackouts paralysed transport systems, disrupted mobile communications and postponed medical procedures.

For almost a day from Monday to early on Tuesday, tens of millions of people were plunged into darkness. In major cities like Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbon, people were trapped in lifts, stuck on trains and unable to access the internet.

Meanwhile, queues snaked outside the few supermarkets running on…

NABLUS, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bulldozed Palestinian agricultural land belonging to citizens in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, on Tuesday.

Hani Odeh, head of the village council in Qusra, reported today that an occupation bulldozer was bulldozing citizens’ land south of the village.

He explained that bulldozing operations are taking place on a daily basis in the north, south, and east of the village, noting that dozens of olive trees…