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Known for sweeping black-and-white photography that captured the natural world and marginalised communities, Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado has passed away at age 81.

His death was confirmed on Friday by the nonprofit he and his wife Lelia Deluiz Wanick Salgado founded, the Instituto Terra.

“It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Sebastiao Salgado, our founder, mentor and eternal source of inspiration,” the institute wrote in a statement.

“Sebastiao was much…

By Benay Blend

While Israel continues to perform one atrocity after the next, each more horrific than the last, there seems to be very little action to stop it.

In his first Sunday address on May 11, Pope Leo XIV called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and expressed concern over escalating global warfare. Because he reiterated his predecessor’s support for Gaza, the Pope committed…

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Labeling the war a “deception,” Barak says Netanyahu’s strategy is doomed to fail and could push Israel further into an international crisis.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak warned that Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a critical choice: either to pursue a “political war of deception” or end the war and secure the release of captives.

In an article published by Haaretz on Thursday,…

New York (Quds News Network)- Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian Columbia University graduate and anti-genocide activist, held his newborn son for the first time on Thursday. This emotional meeting came after a federal judge blocked US immigration authorities from keeping the father and infant separated by a plastic divider.

Khalil has been detained since March 8 at a jail in Jena, Louisiana. He is one of the first to be arrested under President Donald Trump’s crackdown on…

Abu Dhabi’s IMI will take a minority stake in the company of no more than 15 percent.

A consortium led by US investment firm RedBird Capital Partners has agreed to buy the publisher of the United Kingdom’s 170-year-old Daily Telegraph newspaper for about $674m (500 million pounds).

Redbird said it has reached an agreement in principle to become controlling owner of the Telegraph Media Group, ending a lengthy takeover saga for the conservative-leaning newspaper on Friday.

Gerry Cardinale,…