The Israeli military has dropped more than 85,000 tons of bombs inside Gaza since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority. The bombings include the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus munitions, prohibited under the U.N. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Palestinian officials told Wafa news agency ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has downplayed the significance of the US presidential election result, saying it “does not matter” who the US president is. Addressing reporters in Tehran, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said that the “general policies” remain unchanged. Republican Donald Trump claimed victory in the Nov. 5 elections after...
A far-right Danish-Swedish politician known for provoking Muslims by burning copies of the Quran in Sweden has been sentenced to four months in prison. A district court in Malmo charged Rasmus Paludan with two counts of hurt against an ethnic group and insult to Arabs and Africans during public gatherings in 2022. Paludan is leader […]...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Knesset member Gideon Saar as the foreign minister, replacing Israel Katz who became a defense minister. A hardliner, Saar takes the helm of Israeli diplomacy at a time when Tel Aviv presses ahead with its deadly genocidal wars on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Born [&hellip...
LONDON (AA) – Doctors Without Borders Denmark urged the Danish government to accept sick and injured patients from Gaza, local media has reported. Although Denmark is evacuating and treating patients from Ukraine, the authorities have rejected to treat Palestinian patients from Gaza. For patients who cannot get necessary treatment inside...
Lebanon’s labor minister announced on Wednesday that the country has filed a complaint with the International Labor Organization (ILO) over deadly pager explosions in Lebanon in September. Moustafa Bayram described the attacks as an “egregious war against humanity, against technology, against work,”. In a press briefing in G...
Palestinians carried out debris removal efforts in the aftermath of an Israeli attack on the Tulkarem Refugee Camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the raids targeted several towns in the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem, Tulkarem, and Rama...
Somalia on Wednesday urged Germany to end the “forced” deportation of Somalis. Visiting Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin to discuss cooperation on the deportation of migrants from the East African nation. Approximately 65,000 Somalis live in Germany. Somali government spokesman...
A group of climate activists sprayed orange paint on the wall of the U.S. Embassy in London to protest against Republican candidate Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency. In a statement, the Just Stop Oil activists said they took the action in response to Trump’s victory. They also reiterated their demand for governments to [&h...
Climate experts are warning that Donald Trump’s upcoming term as U.S. president poses a grave threat to the planet if it blows up the international effort to curb dangerous global heating. They say his return to the White House is widely expected to result in the U.S. again exiting the Paris climate agreement. It may […]
