Category: 1. Palestine

The deal could be announced during US President Donald Trump’s planned trip to the Middle East next month.

The United States is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth more than $100bn, the Reuters news agency reports, citing six sources familiar with the matter.

The deal is reportedly in the works in advance of a planned trip by US President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates next month, Reuters reported on Thursday.

Top defence contractors such as…

Langtang, Nepal – On the morning of April 25, 2015, Nima Chhiring Tamang, 30, left his home in northern Nepal’s Langtang village to spend time with friends in the neighbouring village of Kyanjin Gompa – about a three hour walk through the Himalayas, in the shadow of the towering 7,234-metre (13,733-foot) Langtang Lirung peak.

Chhiring had recently completed his university education in the capital, Kathmandu, a three-day walk combined with an eight-hour drive away, and returned to his…

Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir – On Monday this week, Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir was a bustling tourist destination. Today, it’s a ghost town.

Suspected rebels killed at least 26 people on Tuesday in the picturesque tourist resort in the deadliest such attack in 25 years in Indian-administered Kashmir, raising fears of an escalation in India-Pakistan tensions.

The Resistance Front (TRF), a little-known armed group that emerged in the region in 2019, claimed…

These are the key events on day 1,156 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is where things stand on Friday, April 25:

Fighting

• Russian missiles and drones killed 12 people in Kyiv, in the biggest attack so far this year on the Ukrainian capital. The attack involved 145 drones and 70 missiles, including 11 ballistic missiles, according to Ukrainian forces.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is using its air strikes on Ukraine’s cities to cover advances by its ground forces,…

By Romana Rubeo  

A legal expert representing Gaza victims before the ICC told The Palestine Chronicle that the arrest warrants remain valid, contrary to misleading media reports.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected on Thursday one of Israel’s key appeals aimed at overturning the arrest warrants issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, confirming that the…

Pakistan has announced a series of retaliatory diplomatic moves against India and demanded evidence to back up the Indian government’s claims that Islamabad was involved in the Kashmir attack.

Suspected rebels killed at least 26 people on Tuesday in the picturesque tourist resort of Pahalgam in the deadliest such attack in a quarter-century in Indian-administered Kashmir. A statement issued in the name of The Resistance Front (TRF), which is believed to be an offshoot of the…

Approximately 1,500 former banana workers in Costa Rica say a US-made pesticide has left them sterile. Though banned in the United States in the 1970s, the chemical DBCP was still used by US fruit companies in countries with lax regulations. Decades later, those affected are still fighting for justice.