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Israel’s announcement that it will illegally build thousands of homes in a highly controversial development in the occupied West Bank – in a move Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich boasted “buries the idea of a Palestinian state” – has drawn widespread international condemnation.

Smotrich announced Thursday that he was pushing ahead with long-frozen plans for the  E1 area settlement project that would connect occupied East Jerusalem with the existing illegal Israeli settlement of…

Kampala (Quds News Network)- The Ugandan vice-president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Julia Sebutinde, has said the “Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel.. the right side of history.”

“The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel,” she said on 10 August in a speech at the Watoto Church in Uganda, according to the Ugandan news website Monitor.

“The whole world was against Israel, including my country.”

Sebutinde, who briefly…

United States President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to meet in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday in a bid to try and end Russia’s three-year assault on Ukraine.

In the run-up to the meeting, Trump said that he believes Putin is ready to agree to a ceasefire. But his suggestion that Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy could “divvy things up” has alarmed observers in Kyiv.

For their part, remarks from top Russian officials suggest that Moscow…