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By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Liri Albag was released in February along with four other female captives as part of the prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel.

An Israeli captive freed in the prisoner exchange deal with Hamas said she has received threats and “despicable” insults from supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for blaming him for the October 7 resistance operation.

“I’m reading the threats…

About 1,000 current and retired Israeli Air Force pilots sign letter, saying Gaza war only serves ‘political interests’.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced about 1,000 current and retired Israeli Air Force reservists, who signed a letter calling for an end to the war in Gaza, referring to them as “marginal and extremist”, while expressing support for the serving pilots’ dismissal.

In a statement posted on X on Thursday, Netanyahu’s office said the prime…

Still, Gonzalez’s Indigenous supporters emphasise that she is not Correa. And Noboa, they say, has the potential to do worse.

“Noboa is a neoliberal fascist,” Taco said. “If he were to win again, there will be no stopping him.”

The son of Alvaro Noboa, the candidate Correa defeated in each of his three elections, the younger Noboa came to power in a snap election in 2023. His mandate was to serve the remainder of his predecessor’s tenure.

So far, during his truncated…

Globalisation has become the driver of international trade, giving both rich and poorer countries a stake in world business.
Then came US President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Could they torpedo globalisation? And what would that mean?

Presenter: James Bays

Guests:
Shirley Yu – senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics
Melanie Brusseler – US programme Director at the think-tank Common Wealth
Chris Weafer – CEO of the consultancy Macro-Advisory, which focuses on Russia and Eurasia

Russia’s territorial gains in Ukraine are slowing down dramatically, two analyses have found, continuing a pattern from 2024 at a time when both nations are trying to project strength in the face of United States-mediated negotiations aimed at ending the war.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence last week estimated that Russian forces seized 143sq km (55sq miles) of Ukrainian land in March, compared with 196sq km (76sq miles) in February and 326sq km (126sq miles) in January.

The Institute for…

United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday paused steep tariffs on America’s trading partners barring China, instead imposing a blanket 10 percent tariff on goods imported from these nations and territories.

The 90-day pause came within 24 hours of the duties taking effect.

The pausing of most additional tariffs, which had roiled the stock market, sent US major stock indices soaring to one of their biggest single-day gains since World War II, even though they remain nearly 11…

The US and China trade war is escalating after US President Donald Trump increased China’s trade levy to 125%. Beijing accused the US of violating rules of the World Trade Organization, saying it is disrupting the multilateral trading system.