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Parts of downtown Los Angeles were under a nighttime curfew on Tuesday after LA Mayor Karen Bass declared a local emergency to “stop the vandalism” and “to stop the looting”.

The protests began on Friday after United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities conducted a series of immigration raids across the city.

The next day, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order to deploy 2,000 National Guard troops to LA without California Governor Gavin…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Since limited humanitarian aid resumed on May 19, only 700 trucks of food and supplies have entered Gaza, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said. That is equal to what entered in just one day during the ceasefire earlier this year.

WFP said the volume is far too small to meet the needs of Gaza’s 2.2 million people. The aid that was sent over the past three weeks includes 11,000 metric tons of food. But just 6,000 metric tons actually made it into Gaza —…

Stunned nation observes minute’s silence, mourners line central square in Graz where 10 people were shot dead at local school.

Austrian police investigating a school mass shooting in the city of Graz this week said they had found discarded plans for a bomb attack at the suspect’s home, as the grief-stricken country embarked on three days of national mourning.

Investigators said on Wednesday that they had discovered abandoned plans for a bombing, a non-functional pipe bomb and a farewell…

Wherever Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks, trouble seems to be looming.

Criticism of his government’s war on Gaza is mounting, with charges of genocide and war crimes coming from both foreign leaders and former Israeli prime ministers.

Internationally, Israel is looking increasingly isolated, as images of the starvation it is inflicting on Gaza flood global media.

Domestically, Netanyahu faces deep criticism of a war many believe he is only prolonging to stay in…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich were sanctioned on Tuesday for having incited “extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights.”

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in the occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday morning.

In a brief statement, the Islamic Endowment Department in…

The International Organization for Migration says group of 150 were forced off boat by smugglers and made to swim to shore.

Eight refugees and migrants have died and 22 others are missing after they were forced off a boat near the Djibouti coast, according to the United Nations agency the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

In a statement, IOM said the dead and missing were part of a group of 150 others who were forced by smugglers to get off a boat and swim to shore last week on…

US President Donald Trump has claimed that a “migrant invasion” has taken over Los Angeles, in a bid to justify migrant arrests during Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids since June 6.

Others in his administration have echoed that rationale, after the raids triggered ongoing protests and Trump called the National Guard and Marines into the city to quell unrest, clashing with California Governor Gavin Newsom.

But how accurate are these claims of an invasion by undocumented…