Category: 1. Palestine

Five out of 11 big fires have been contained after rainfall improves firefighting conditions.

Wildfires sweeping through South Korea since last Friday have killed at least 28 people, injured dozens more and charred about 48,000 hectares (118,000 acres) of forest, according to local news agency Yonhap.

But better visibility and cooler temperatures following overnight rainfall on Thursday have led to improved firefighting conditions against the blazes that were driven by strong winds from…

Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- The co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land condemned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its response to the violent Israeli attack on his fellow, Hamdan Ballal. Ballal was beaten by Israeli settlers and arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Monday.

Israeli forces released Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal on Tuesday after kidnapping him following a brutal attack by Israeli settlers in…

On Monday, Ghassan Abdel Basset and his family left their home in the occupied West Bank to visit a relative.

They were going to break their fast together during the holy month of Ramadan.

Later that evening, their neighbours informed them that Israeli settlers had invaded their home.

Ghassan hurried back to confront the settlers, but the Israeli army intervened to block him and his family from getting back to their house.

The settlers claimed they bought the home, but the Abdel Basset…

Just days after the collapse of the Awami League government in Bangladesh in August 2024 following deadly street protests that culminated in the dramatic flight of then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the country’s newly appointed banking chief began a cat-and-mouse hunt for vast amounts of money smuggled abroad by its political and business elites.

Bangladesh Bank has set up 11 specialist teams to track the assets of 11 powerful families accused of laundering billions of dollars to the…

Trump’s new executive order targets what he describes as the spread of a “divisive, race-centered ideology” at museums.

United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to remove what he describes as “corrosive” anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum complex.

In one of his latest executive orders signed on Thursday, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, Trump placed Vice President JD Vance in charge of…

Magnitude 7.7 and 6.4 earthquakes have struck Myanmar, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), with reports of strong tremors felt in Thailand and elsewhere in the region.

The first tremor hit 16 kilometres (10 miles) northwest of the city of Sagaing at a depth of 10 kilometres at about 12:50 pm local time (06:20 GMT) on Friday, USGS said.

Meanwhile, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said the jolt measured magnitude 7.9, according to the Xinhua news agency, with a…