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Germany has acknowledged early 1900s genocide of Herero and Nama people, but reparations remain elusive.

Namibia has held its first Genocide Remembrance Day to commemorate tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people killed by German colonisers in the early 1900s, in what is widely considered the first genocide of the 20th century.

The southern African country’s president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, speaking at the event Wednesday, called again for reparations for the at least 70,000 Indigenous…

By Nour Dawood

Standing in the middle of the street in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood, I stared at the ruins—buildings that once stood tall, now reduced to rubble or left barely standing. I knew every corner of these buildings, every stone. Not just me, every Gazan did. These weren’t just buildings; they were part of us.

Memories run deep in this place for the people of Gaza. Al-Rimal was once the beating heart of the Strip—a vibrant center of life, now silenced by…

Joel Le Scouarnec tells court he committed ‘despicable act’ in another mass rape case that shocks France.

A French court has sentenced a retired surgeon to 20 years in prison for raping or sexually abusing nearly 300 victims, many of them children under anaesthesia, over 25 years of his career in another case of years-long abuse that has rocked the nation.

The conviction and sentencing on Wednesday in the Brittany court capped what is widely seen as the worst case of abuse of children…

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza, and that “thousands of innocent Palestinians are being killed.”

Olmert wrote in an opinion piece on Tuesday for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that “the government of Israel is currently waging a war without purpose, without goals or clear planning and with no chances of success”.

He added: “Never since its establishment has the state of Israel…