Last week more than 100 people were killed after Israel hit a school in Gaza City sheltering displaced Palestinians, as the United Nations accused Israel of intensifying attacks on schools. The targeting of al-Talbin School on Saturday during dawn prayers triggered global outrage. Paramedics at the scene described the carnage…
Rioters have attacked people, shops, cars and public spaces as far-right violence sweeps across the United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has decried “far-right thuggery”. But members of Muslim community and activists have accused politicians, including the governing Labour party, of downplaying the levels of racism and Islamophobia taking place….
The world has at least 58 million US dollar millionaires, accounting for 1.5 percent of the global adult population, according to the 2024 UBS Global Wealth Report (PDF), which sampled 56 markets that account for 92 percent of global wealth. The United States has the highest number of millionaires, with…
EXPLAINER Thirteen countries have been banned from the Olympics in the past for reasons such as war, doping, political stances or violations of IOC rules. As Israel’s national football team took the field for their opening game of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris on Thursday, their national anthem was…
The FBI suspects a 20-year-old man to be behind the failed assassination attempt on the former US president. Former United States President Donald Trump has survived an assassination bid during a campaign rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania months ahead of the presidential elections. Trump, who was injured in the right…
Four US presidents and one candidate have been assassinated since the founding of the US. Former United States President Donald Trump has been wounded in an assassination bid during a campaign rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Trump, who was injured in the right ear, is “safe”. He was escorted off…
EXPLAINER The 32 members of the world’s most powerful military alliance will spend $1.47 trillion this year. NATO is holding the final day of its three-day summit in Washington, DC, to mark its 75th anniversary. On Wednesday, the world’s most powerful military alliance formally declared Ukraine was on an “irreversible”…
In 2024, Israel illegally seized 23.7sq km (9.15 sq miles) of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, amid its ongoing war on Gaza. That’s more than the land it took over the past 20 years combined. On July 2, Israeli authorities announced the largest single seizure in more than…
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s party is expected to lose the July 4 election after 14 years of Conservative rule. Vote counting is under way in the United Kingdom’s snap general election with 650 seats in the House of Commons – the lower house of Britain’s parliament – up for grabs….
For nearly nine months, Israel’s war on Gaza has forced Palestinians to run from place to place in search of pockets of safety in the besieged Strip. Israel’s latest mass evacuation order told 250,000 displaced people in Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, to leave, as it carries out renewed attacks…
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