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Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s film, It Was Just an Accident, has been awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The dissident has endured years of travel bans and prison terms in Iran for his filmmaking, which served as inspiration for his award-winning work.

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Major international airlines have not resumed flights to Israel, with some extending their suspension in recent days. This comes as Yemen continues its aerial blockade on Israel to pressure it to end the genocide in Gaza.

On Sunday, the Israeli army claimed that it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen. Air raid sirens sounded across occupied Jerusalem and southern Israel. Soon after, Israel temporarily halted departures and arrivals at Ben…

On April 27, my brother-in-law, Samer, was killed in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza when his vegetable stall was bombed. He wasn’t armed. He wasn’t a political figure. He was a peaceful man trying to earn a living to feed his children in a place where food has become more expensive than gold.

Samer wasn’t a vendor by profession. He was a lawyer who defended the rights of the oppressed. But the war forced him to change his path.

During the ceasefire, he was able to buy vegetables from…

Five years ago on May 25, 2020, a white police officer in the United States killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, during an arrest.

A bystander’s video showed officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as Floyd pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. The footage sparked weeks of global protests against police brutality and racism. It contributed to a jury’s murder conviction against Chauvin and a federal investigation into the…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- A new investigation by Israeli Haaretz has confirmed that the Israeli military intensified its attacks on hospitals and clinics across Gaza over the past week. At least ten medical facilities were struck, forcing many out of service and pushing Gaza’s health system closer to collapse.

The attacks began with a major strike on the European Hospital in Khan Younis. That assault marked the beginning of Israel’s expanded ground operation, now called…

Bulls are yoked together by thick wooden frames in a sun-scorched field in rural Pakistan. Behind them, clutching nothing more than ropes – and his pride – stands a man perched on a plank.

Hundreds of spectators whoop and cheer as the animals thunder down a track, kicking up clouds of dust and a tangible sense of danger.

This is bull racing, Punjabi style.

The traditional sport encapsulates the raw vibrancy of village life and stands in stark contrast to the floodlit cricket and hockey…

The attempted land seizures took place in Deir Jarir, Al-Mughayyir, and Ein ‘Arik in Ramallah Governorate, and in Shalal Al-Auja area near Jericho.

The Commission called the escalation part of an organized push to take over more Palestinian land under the protection of the Israeli military.

Settlers also launched violent attacks on Palestinian communities across the West Bank in less than 24 hours:

• In the northern Jordan Valley, armed settlers chased shepherds and expelled them from…