By Jeremy Salt
Gaza has been turned into a death zone by Israel, with deliberate, mass-scale violence and complicity from its civilian population, while the international community remains largely indifferent.
War crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed in Gaza on a scale we have never seen before, not in the lifetime of almost all of us. They have been committed every day for more than 18…
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Could Canada become the 51st American state? Redi Tlhabi speaks with Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae.
Canada’s relationship with the United States is back in the spotlight after US President Donald Trump suggested that Canada could be annexed as the 51st American state. The comment has sparked political backlash and heightened tensions on both sides of the border.
So is this threat of annexation credible?
This week in UpFront, Redi Tlhabi speaks with Canada’s…
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Redi Tlhabi speaks with experts on fears of human rights abuses during Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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Israeli settlers this morning carried out acts of vandalism and destruction in the Masafer Yatta region, located south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, reported Wafa news agency.
Osama Makhamra, a Palestinian community activist, stated that settlers targeted farmland owned by the Al-Hathalin family in the village of Umm Al-Khair, uprooting newly planted olive saplings and dismantling the protective fencing around the area.
In a separate assault, settlers…
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Seven Iranian oilfields will be developed in cooperation with Russian firms, according to Iran’s oil minister.
Iran will sign a $4bn energy agreement with Russian companies, Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad has announced, as the two nations seek to bolster ties while trying to cope with punishing Western economic sanctions.
Speaking on state TV earlier on Friday, Paknejad said the deal aims to develop seven Iranian oilfields in cooperation with Russian firms.
From military cooperation…
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By Palestine Chronicle Staff 
Discrepancies in casualty figures, rising fatalities, and internal military disagreements underscore the escalating human cost of Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.
More than 300 Israeli soldiers have been killed during the last 12 months alone, according to new figures released on Friday by the Israeli Defense Ministry—part of a rising toll that coincides with growing domestic discontent and calls…
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The US military said, on Thursday, a blast on Sunday near a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a was caused by a Houthi missile and not an American air strike, Reuters reports.
The Houthi-run Health Ministry said a dozen people were killed in the US strike in a neighbourhood of Sana’a. The Old City of Sana’a is a recognised UNESCO World Heritage Site.
President Donald Trump ordered the intensification of US strikes on Yemen last…
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A group of Jewish activists in Austria will host its first Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna in June, activist Dalia Sarig-Fellner told Anadolu.
The congress aims to prove that criticising Zionism is not anti-Semitism and to ensure anti-Zionist Jewish voices are heard globally on the issue of Palestine, said Sarig-Fellner, a member of the Vienna Jewish Anti-Zionist Initiative in Austria, Anadolu Agency reports.
She said the initiative was founded after…
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Chris Eubank Jr fined £375,000 after missing the weight limit for Saturday’s grudge match with Conor Benn.
Chris Eubank Jr will be fined 375,000 pounds ($500,000) after hitting the scales 14g (0.5oz) more than the weight limit for Saturday’s long-awaited fight with fellow Briton Conor Benn at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Benn came in lighter than expected at 71kg (156.4lb) with the limit for the 12-round Ring Magazine middleweight bout set at 72.57kg (160lb).
Eubank was 72.597kg…
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US President Donald Trump has said he is open to meeting Iran’s Supreme Leader or President, as the two countries began talks on Iran’s nuclear programme, Reuters reports.
Following a meeting last week to outline a framework for a potential nuclear deal, which a US official described as yielding “very good progress”, Trump told Time magazine, in a 22 April interview, published on Friday: “I think we’re going to make a deal with Iran.”
Asked…
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