The Palestine Ministry of Education says that Israel has killed 12,799 students, with over 20,000 others injured across Gaza and the West Bank. At least 14 Palestinians, including 10 in a single Gaza City home, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday. Israeli tanks were seen advancing deeper into Rafah’s western areas, according to medics...
A Senate investigation, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, has led to accusation that Amazon manipulated workplace injury data and ignored safety recommendations to prioritise profits. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions found Amazon warehouses reported injury rates 31% higher than industry averages in 2023 and nearly do...
Six years after the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, 1,360 children remain separated from their parents, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The 135-page report highlights the lasting trauma inflicted by the policy, describing it as “calculated cruelty”. Children were forcibly taken from their parents, many left in angu...
The family of a Turkish-American activist, killed by Israeli forces in September, expressed frustration after meeting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The family of deceased Aysenur Ezgi Eygi cited repeated rhetoric without meaningful action. Eygi’s husband, Hamid Ali, compared the response to the 2003 killing of American activist Rachel ...
A former FBI informant has pleaded guilty to lying about a false bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. Alexander Smirnov admitted fabricating claims that Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid $5 million each to the Bidens, allegations that fueled the Republican-led impeachment inquiry. Smirnov, who faces up to...
The Syrian revolutionary flag was raised at the Syrian Embassy in Washington, marking a historic moment and symbolizing the fall of the Assad regime. This symbolic act reflected the seismic political shift in Syria. On November 27, Syrian opposition forces launched a lightning offensive, capturing key cities, and then took the capital, Damascu...
With Donald Trump’s second term approaching, several federal judges are reversing their retirement plans, triggering outrage among Republicans. Judge James Wynn of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, along with district judges Algenon Marbley and Max Cogburn in North Carolina, rescinded their retirements, denying Trump vacancies to fill and til...
A mass grave has been discovered near Damascus which reportedly contains the remains of at least 100,000 people killed by the Bashar al-Assad regime. According to Syrian Emergency Task Force, a US-based advocacy group, the site, located in al-Qutayfah — 40 kilometres north of the capital — holds a chilling testament to the regime’s bruta...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Families in Syria are gathering in the capital Damascus to post photos of missing loved ones, hoping to find answers about those who disappeared during the rule of Bashar Assad. After the collapse of the Assad regime on December 8, thousands of prisoners, many held in notorious facilities like Sednaya, were freed by anti-...
ANKARA (AA) – Indonesia has deployed the second batch of its military health personnel to Egypt to treat Palestinians from Gaza, state-run media reported on Tuesday. A group of 25 Indonesian military health personnel departed on a humanitarian mission to treat Gazans on a UAE-owned hospital ship at El Arish Port, Egypt, according to Anta...
