Protesters block New York stock exchange over US arms for Israel | Protests

Protesters block New York stock exchange over US arms for Israel | Protests

NewsFeed Hundreds of protesters blockaded the New York Stock Exchange to demand the US stops arming and funding Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and to condemn weapons firms profiting from the violence. Published On 15 Oct 202415 Oct 2024 Check out our Latest News and Follow us at Facebook…

OECD calls off antibribery mission to Hungary in unprecedented move | Corruption News

OECD calls off antibribery mission to Hungary in unprecedented move | Corruption News

Paris-based organisation cites government’s failure to act on its previous recommendations, some more than a decade old. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has cancelled a mission to Hungary to discuss antibribery measures, it says, citing the government’s failure to act on its previous recommendations. There was no…

UN warns of humanitarian catastrophe in Lebanon amid Israel-Hezbollah war | Israel attacks Lebanon News

UN warns of humanitarian catastrophe in Lebanon amid Israel-Hezbollah war | Israel attacks Lebanon News

UNICEF and WFP call for support for hundreds of thousands displaced by fighting, with women and children bearing the brunt. United Nations agencies have called for an urgent increase in funding to deal with the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Lebanon as the Israeli military continues its offensive against Hezbollah. UNICEF…

Israel says ‘national interests’ will dictate retaliation against Iran | Israel attacks Lebanon News

Israel says ‘national interests’ will dictate retaliation against Iran | Israel attacks Lebanon News

PM Netanyahu’s office says it will consider US ‘opinions’, but Israel will make its own decision in attacking Iran. Israel will take into account the “opinions” of the United States but will ultimately act against an Iranian missile attack according to its own “national interests”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office…

Desperate journeys: Syrian refugees fleeing Israel’s assault on Lebanon | Israel attacks Lebanon

Desperate journeys: Syrian refugees fleeing Israel’s assault on Lebanon | Israel attacks Lebanon

Al-Bara, Syria – Musa Baghdadi paid $6,000 for the privilege of exchanging one bombardment for another. “I paid to escape the shelling in Lebanon to reach my village, which is also under bombardment by Assad’s army,” he tells Al Jazeera at his modest, one-storey home in al-Bara, western Idlib. The…

Families want justice, ‘blood money’ for AU peacekeeper killings in Somalia | Conflict News

Families want justice, ‘blood money’ for AU peacekeeper killings in Somalia | Conflict News

Omar Hassan Warsame was a larger-than-life figure in the Somali town of Golweyn, where his sizeable farm provided maize, bananas and jobs that helped sustain the community. The 65-year-old and a contingent of up to a dozen of his employees would tend to crops on the plot in the Lower…

Nigeria return from Libya as Algeria and Cameroon qualify for AFCON 2025 | Football News

Nigeria return from Libya as Algeria and Cameroon qualify for AFCON 2025 | Football News

Nigeria’s refusal to play their Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualification fixture in Libya after alleged “inhumane treatment” of their squad and eventual return home has overshadowed Algeria and Cameroon qualifying for the 2025 football finals. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) confirmed on Monday that their national team had returned…

Cuban president leads pro-Palestinian march in Havana | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Cuban president leads pro-Palestinian march in Havana | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Thousands of Cubans, led by President Miguel Diaz-Canel and other leaders of the communist-run island, marched in Havana to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The demonstrators, including some 250 Palestinian medical students living in Cuba, carried a large banner that read “Long live free Palestine”, while the president and…

Deep pain in a beautiful West Bank home: The Arrabis’ dead sons | Israel-Palestine conflict

Deep pain in a beautiful West Bank home: The Arrabis’ dead sons | Israel-Palestine conflict

Jenin, occupied West Bank, Palestine – Muhammad Arrabi’s family, what’s left of it, lives in the heart of Jenin’s Old City in a house the family has handed down for 185 years. The Arrabi family had numbered 10 – a mother, a father, four daughters and four sons – until…

North Korea blows up roads near South Korean border as tensions soar | Military News

North Korea blows up roads near South Korean border as tensions soar | Military News

Latest move comes after Pyongyang accused South Korea of sending drones carrying propaganda leaflets over its capital. North Korea has blown up the northern sections of the roads that connect it to South Korea, according to South Korea’s military. Some parts of the road north of the military demarcation line…