Category: 1. Palestine

The city council has chosen a temporary mayor to take over from Ekrem Imamoglu, who was jailed last week.

Istanbul’s municipal government has elected Nuri Aslan as interim mayor to replace Ekrem Imamoglu, who has been imprisoned on corruption charges.

Local broadcaster NTV and Turkish news outlet Anadolu reported on Wednesday that Aslan, from Imamoglu’s Republican People’s Party (CHP), was chosen to run the city for the remainder of Imamoglu’s term, as he awaits trial.

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It was already dark by the time Hamdan Ballal arrived back home on Tuesday evening, after 24 hours in Israeli military and police custody. The night before, around 15 Israeli settlers — armed with knives, batons, and one with a rifle — had stormed his village of Susiya in the occupied West Bank, hurling stones and assaulting residents along with activists who were staying there.

Ballal, the Oscar-winning co-director of “No Other Land” (which he wrote about…

The former president has been accused of five crimes including attempting a coup d’etat.

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to stand trial on charges of attempting a coup d’etat after failing to win the re-election in 2022.

Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain who served as Brazil’s president from 2019 to 2022, is accused of five crimes, including an alleged attempt to violently abolish the democratic rule of law. He has denounced the accusations…

By Ramzy Baroud  

The situation in Gaza embodies Orwell’s concept of “doublethink”—the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both.

In a genocidal war that has spiraled into a struggle for political survival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and the global powers supporting him continue…