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International concern is mounting over the India-Pakistan conflict, as both are armed with substantial nuclear arsenals.

Atomic bombs have only been used twice – 80 years ago on Japan.

What nuclear risks do the current hostilities pose?

Presenter:

James Bays

Guests:

Dan Smith – Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a think tank focusing on global security

Susi Snyder – Programme co-ordinator at the…

Thousands in St. Peter’s Square cheered the election of Robert Prevost from the US as the new pope. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Al Jazeera’s Virginia Pietromarchi was in the square with witnesses who expressed joy at his message of peace and unity.

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The Hamas Movement extended its sincere congratulations and blessings to Pope Leo XIV on the occasion of his election as the new head of the Catholic Church.

In a statement issued on Thursday evening, Hamas wished him success in fulfilling his spiritual and humanitarian mission amid the tragedies and disasters unfolding around the world, foremost among them the ongoing brutal Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas praised the courageous…

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)

The Hamas Movement has condemned the storming of six UNRWA-run schools in Occupied Jerusalem by Israeli occupation forces, forcibly expelling students and staff and closing the schools.

In a statement issued on Thursday evening, Hamas described the Israeli move as a blatant violation of international conventions and laws and a direct assault on the United Nations and its institutions.

Hamas said this criminal act comes within the context of the…

TULKAREM, (PIC)

Former Palestinian prisoner Moatasem Raddad, 42, from the town of Seida north of Tulkarem, passed away on Thursday in an Egyptian hospital due to complications from illnesses that had severely worsened during his detention in Israeli prisons.

Raddad was arrested in 2006 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Throughout his detention, he suffered from dire health conditions, having sustained shrapnel injuries at the time of his arrest. His health progressively…