Demonstration at what has become known as ‘Hostages Square’ marked 50 days since Hamas attack on Israel. An estimated 100,000 people demonstrated in Tel Aviv to call for the release of all captives held by Hamas, on the second day of a truce between the Palestinian group and Israel. On…
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon condemns attack as ‘deeply troubling’, no troops were injured. The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon has said that Israeli fire hit one of its patrols in the country’s south, despite a truce between Israel and Hamas largely quietening the Lebanon-Israel frontier. “At around 12:00 pm,…
October saw ‘unprecedented’ spike in cost of water, wheat flour as Palestinians flock to markets on second day of truce. Food prices skyrocketed in Gaza last month, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics has said, amid Israel’s bombardment of the enclave and suffocating siege. The bureau on Saturday called the…
Nurses recall horror of Israeli raid, interrogations, saying troops beat and humiliated them as they refused to leave patients behind. The Indonesian Hospital, one of northern Gaza’s largest healthcare facilities, was so severely damaged in Israeli attacks that it may never open again. On Saturday, Munir al-Bursh, director-general of the…
“The physician is the natural attorney of the poor” was a slogan Rudolf Virchow, a wealthy German pathologist, politician and social medicine activist, helped popularise in the mid-nineteenth century. More than 100 years later, Frantz Fanon – a Martinican-born psychiatrist who resigned from his position in the French medical system…
Andry Rajoelina has secured a third term in an election marred by a low turnout and an opposition boycott. Madagascar‘s President Andry Rajoelina has effectively secured a third term after the electoral body (CENI) said he had obtained the most votes in an election marked by low turnout and an…
NewsFeed “We’ve been tortured.” As dozens of Palestinian women and children return home from Israeli prisons as part of a Gaza truce deal between Israel and Hamas, many say they endured incredibly harsh conditions while detained. Published On 25 Nov 202325 Nov 2023 Check out our Latest News and Follow…
Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen on Finland’s NATO accession, Russian threats, and Israeli deal vs Gaza stance. As the easternmost European Union member, Finland, historically neutral, pivots towards NATO in response to Russia’s Ukraine invasion, new geopolitical challenges arise: increased Russian espionage, cyberattacks and potential election interference, the Finnish government says….
Liverpool snap City’s 23-match winning run at the Etihad as clash between the Premier League’s top two ends 1-1. An 80th-minute goal from Trent Alexander-Arnold secured Liverpool a 1-1 draw with leaders Manchester City on Saturday, keeping Juergen Klopp’s team a point adrift of the top spot in the tight…
In the first of a two-part series, Angela Muhindo spoke to UN Women ahead of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, marked annually from 25 November to 10 December, Human Rights Day. “My life has been full of pain,” she said, surveying the green landscape where she spent…
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