Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s announcement comes despite international pressure against Israel’s building of illegal settlements. Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared 800 hectares (1,977 acres) in the occupied West Bank as state land, in a move that will facilitate the use of the ground for settlement building. The announcement…
Washington, DC – Describing the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza as a genocide, progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called on the United States to suspend weapons transfers to Israel. In an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez condemned the Israeli blockade on Gaza, which…
NewsFeed Screams and gunshots can be heard from inside a concert hall near Moscow, Russia after gunmen burst in and opened fire. Russia’s Federal Security Service said 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded. Russian news reports say the gunmen threw explosives that set the building on fire….
The IOM believes the people were migrants who died in the process of being smuggled through the desert in Libya. The bodies of at least 65 people have been discovered in a mass grave in southwest Libya, the United Nations’ migration agency has said. In a statement on Friday, the…
Washington, DC – The United States House of Representatives has approved a $1.2 trillion funding bill that would ban funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) amid the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. The measure, which passed in a 286 to 134 vote on Friday, would…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the United States’s top diplomat that Israel is determined to send troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where some 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering, and will do so without US backing if necessary. Following a meeting with visiting US Secretary of…
The Kremlin has for two years referred to its invasion of Ukraine as a ‘special military operation’, not a war. More than two years after invading Ukraine, the Kremlin has said that Russia regards itself to be at “war” due to the West’s intervention and support of its neighbour. So…
Is Haiti on the verge of collapse? We look at the current violent upheaval in the country and discuss what’s ahead. Haiti is facing a major and violent upheaval after armed gangs took control of 80 percent of the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, locking Prime Minister Ariel Henry out of the…
Russia and China have vetoed the US draft Security Council resolution at the UN headquarters in New York. The United Nations Security Council has failed to pass a United States draft resolution calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza after two permanent members chose to veto it….
German laws on cannabis use now among most liberal in Europe, but medical experts warn it ‘makes you stupid’. The German parliament has approved the partial legalisation of cannabis for personal use in a landmark vote that leaves the country with some of the most liberal laws on the substance…
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