Category: 1. Palestine

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Kieu Quoc Thanh, the CEO of cashew export business SVC Group, says that everyone in his industry has been “feeling crazy” for the past two weeks.

Since United States President Donald Trump announced his since-paused “reciprocal” tariffs on April 2, Thanh has witnessed mass confusion among Vietnamese exporters.

Many businesses reliant on the US market are checking online hourly for updates on the tariffs, Thanh says, while he has a shipping container full…

Adam Boehler tells Al Jazeera ‘nothing goes forward’ on ceasefire deal until release, as Israel’s assault continues.

Washington, DC – Israeli attacks on Gaza will end if Hamas releases all remaining captives, US President Donald Trump’s top hostage envoy said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

“I can tell you that the fighting would end immediately, immediately if hostages are released,” said Adam Boehler, US special envoy for hostage response. “The day that those hostages are…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 10 people burnt alive in a horrific Israeli airstrike on a makeshift camp for displaced families in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. The strike targeted tents in Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, where hundreds of civilians had sought refuge from ongoing Israeli genocide.

A heartbreaking scene: displaced families burned alive, most of them women and children, after an Israeli airstrike targeted their tents in the Al-Mawasi area, west of…

By Yves Engler

Why the double standard? Is it because Israel is Canada’s ally, as Zionists claim? An ally in the announced Trump-Netanyahu plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is openly throwing his weight behind Pierre Poilievre. But few are pushing back against this flagrant interference in Canada’s election.

On Friday, the Israeli prime minister posted,…

“The day that those hostages are released, the fighting will end.” In an interview with Al Jazeera, the Trump administration’s envoy for hostage negotiations Adam Boehler says he told Hamas that the US will “come for them” if Israeli-American captive Edan Alexander is harmed. He added that “the day that those hostages are released, the fighting will end.”

Real Madrid’s Champions League defence ends with a tame 2-1 defeat in Spain by Arsenal, who claim a 5-1 aggregate win.

Arsenal have defeated defending champion Real Madrid 2-1 to reach the Champions League semifinals for the first time since 2009 in a match in which VAR played a key role in two penalty decisions.

Arsenal advanced 5-1 on aggregate on Wednesday after a 3-0 first-leg win at home in London last week, keeping alive its chances of winning Europe’s top club competition for the…

US Sen. Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador to try to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported by the Trump administration. The Maryland Democrat said Trump officials were “lying” about MS-13 ties and that El Salvador’s vice president told him they are holding Abrego Garcia at the administration’s request.

A motorised wooden boat with about 400 passengers caught fire and capsized near the town of Mbandaka.

A boat has capsized after catching fire in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), leaving at least 50 people dead and hundreds missing, a local official has said.

The search for the missing was under way on Wednesday with rescue teams supported by the Red Cross and provincial authorities, following the accident on the Congo River late Tuesday night.

The motorised wooden boat…