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Mohamad Elmasry, a professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, talks about Israel’s attacks in Gaza – arguing they are a deliberate targeting of the civilian population.

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 Israeli occupation authorities Thursday began demolishing two Palestinian homes in the village of al-Rihiya, south of Hebron, according to local sources.

Activist Osama al-Harsh confirmed that Israeli bulldozers began demolishing the two-story home of Ibrahim Muhammad Atta al-Harsh, each occupied an area of 220 square meters, and the home of Atallah Ahmed al-Harsh, which is under construction and has two floors, the first floor measuring 120 square meters…

In a reversal of the plan he defended for days, United States President Donald Trump delayed almost all of the country-by-country tariffs he unveiled on April 2.

For two days, Trump and the White House denied that he was considering a pause in the tariff plan shaking global markets.

During an April 7 Oval Office event with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a reporter asked Trump, “Would you be open to a pause in…

If you listen to President Donald Trump and his allies discuss his sweeping tariff plans, one word pops up a lot: “Cheating”.

During his April 2 announcement of what he called “Liberation Day”, Trump released a list of new tariffs of up to 50 percent on virtually every country – a plan that took effect at midnight on April 9 before he abruptly issued a 90-day pause hours later. (His April 9 change in course increased tariffs on China and kept a 10 percent across-the-board tariff on…

Moscow releases US-Russian former ballerina for German-Russian businessman freed by Washington.

The United States and Russia have completed a prisoner exchange in the United Arab Emirates with Moscow releasing US-Russian national Ksenia Karelina and Washington freeing German-Russian businessman Arthur Petrov.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Karelina’s lawyer confirmed the release on Thursday of the former ballet dancer, who was charged by Russia with treason.

Karelina was arrested in…

US President Donald Trump has hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the second time since returning to office in January.

Iran and Gaza were the main topics discussed. Why did the meeting take place, and what does it signal?

Presenter: Dareen Abughaida

Guests:
H A Hellyer – senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute
Trita Parsi – executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible…

The Philippines is the only country in the world, apart from the Vatican, where divorce is illegal.

In this predominantly Catholic nation, there is intense pressure to uphold the sanctity of marriage.

This leaves many women trapped in violent and abusive relationships.

But a growing number of Filipinas are fighting to change the law.

101 East travels to the Philippines and follows these…

In conversations about Israel and Palestine, I am often asked about my views on the internal resistance to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

My questioners point to hundreds of thousands of Israelis who have been taking to the streets to protest against the government and its efforts to introduce a judicial overhaul over the past two years and inquire why I remain apathetic to these efforts to end Netanyahu’s rule.

My answer is simple – the real problem facing Israel is…