Category: 1. Palestine

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Head of caretaker government and leader of 2023 coup secures XX percent of votes cast on Saturday.

Gabon’s military leader Brice Oligui Nguema has been declared the winner in the presidential race, cementing his grip on power following the first election since he led the 2023 coup.

Gabon’s election body announced provisional results on Sunday that Nguema secured 90 percent in Saturday’s election, against his closest rival, Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze.

Nguema, who had…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Most hospitals in the Gaza Strip are now out of service, according to the Health Ministry. Israeli airstrikes have destroyed more than 80 medical centers and over 140 ambulances.

On the eve of Palm Sunday, Israeli warplanes bombed the Baptist Hospital in central Gaza City. The strike targeted the surgical operations building and the medical oxygen station, both essential for intensive care patients.

Israeli forces had warned of the attack minutes before it…

Fighters from Hamas’ Qassam Brigades say they ambushed an Israeli force in Rafah, as air raid sirens sounded in hundreds of locations across Israel amid missile fire from Yemen.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, stated on Sunday that its fighters captured an Israeli force operating in the eastern part of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

In their statement, the Brigades announced…

Virgil van Dijk scores late to send Liverpool 13 points clear and to the verge of clinching their 20th league title.

Virgil van Dijk spared Liverpool’s blushes with a late winner to beat West Ham 2-1 and edge to within six points of the Premier League title.

Andy Robertson’s own goal four minutes from time on Sunday had given the lowly Hammers a deserved equaliser after Luis Diaz put Liverpool in front early on.

Van Dijk, though, swiftly restored the lead to show Liverpool retain the…

Just before a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, General Zaw Min Tun sat down with Talk to Al Jazeera. In a rare interview, the military government’s spokesperson defended military rule amid growing armed resistance, looming war crimes trials, and international condemnation. Hours later, entire villages were gone, and…

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has made history as Namibia’s first female president. But after decades as a senior figure in SWAPO, the governing party since independence, questions remain over whether her leadership signals genuine reform or a last-ditch attempt to revive a party widely seen as in decline. In this Talk to Al Jazeera interview, she speaks about inequality,…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Poilievre adopts Trump-style rhetoric as he targets foreign protesters for their pro-Palestine activism.

Canada’s Conservative Party leader, Pierre Poilievre, vowed on Saturday to deport foreign nationals who incite hatred, claiming that pro-Palestinian rallies are fueling a rise in antisemitism.

Speaking while campaigning in an Ottawa district—where he is running against…

Massachusetts (Quds News Network)- Professors at Harvard University have filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from cutting nearly $9 billion in federal grants and contracts under the pretext of ending antisemitism on campus. The faculty say the move is a political attack on free speech and academic freedom.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Boston federal court by Harvard’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), accuses the administration of…

Beijing calls on Washington to ‘completely cancel’ its reciprocal tariffs amid an escalating trade war.

China has welcomed the announcement by the United States of a series of exemptions from import levies on consumer electronics, which it said was a “small step” in correcting President Donald Trump’s “wrong practice” of imposing 145 percent tariffs on Chinese goods.

“China is now evaluating the impact,” a Ministry of Commerce spokesperson said in a statement on Sunday,…