Huwara, Palestinian Territories – AFP Schools were shut Sunday in the occupied West Bank town of Huwara as Israeli troops searched for the suspected killer of an Israeli father and his son who were shot dead over the weekend. The two Israeli men were gunned down Saturday at a car wash in Huwara, in the […]
LONDON (AA) – The EU has called on Israel to respect the Palestinian children’s right to education and pay compensation for the demolition of a school in the occupied West Bank. “Appalled by the demolition of the EU-funded school in Ein Samiya in the Occupied West Bank,” EU Delegation to the Palestinians wrote on X. […...
LONDON (AA) – The UK on Thursday criticized Israel for demolishing a school in the occupied West Bank, calling on Tel Aviv to ensure Palestinian children’s right to education. “All children have a right to education. The UK calls on the government of #Israel to uphold this right for Palestinian children,” the British Co...
WASHINGTON – With U.S. federal student loan payments about to resume, 62% of students say they are likely to boycott repayments. According to a survey conducted by intelligent.com, nearly half of the 1,000 borrowers surveyed believe a boycott could result in all of their student debt being forgiven. Loan payments are expected to resume i...
– UN official urges Muslim-majority countries to persuade clerics in Kandahar to lift ban on girls’ education and women’s employment. KABUL, Afghanistan – The United Nations has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute the Afghan Taliban transitional government for gender discrimination. The U.N...
Kabul, Afghanistan — AFP Afghanistan’s Taliban government marked on August 15 the second anniversary of their takeover of the country with celebrations and a public holiday, issuing a defiant statement commemorating their surge back to power. Flags of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — the name given to the country by its n...
JERUSALEM, Palestine – A group of Jewish settlers raided a Palestinian school in the West Bank. According to Palestine’s official WAFA news agency, Jewish settlers raided the Ra’s et-Tin school in the eastern Ramallah area where Bedouin communities live. They broke the windows of the school. In October 2020, Israel decided to...
TORONTO (AA) – The UN said Tuesday that the International Criminal Court should recognize gender discrimination in Afghanistan as a crime against humanity. “The legal opinion we have received shows that the denial of education to Afghan girls and employment to Afghan women is gender discrimination, which should count as a crime aga...
RAMALLAH (AA) – A group of Jewish settlers raided a Palestinian school in the West Bank, according to local media on Sunday. Jewish settlers raided the Ra’s et-Tin school in the eastern Ramallah area where the Bedouin communities live, according to Palestine’s official WAFA news agency. They broke the windows of the school, it adde...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The former deputy prime minister of Turkey said the closure of Turkish minority schools in Western Thrace by Greece is a violation of historical agreements that guarantee minorities’ rights to education in their own language. “It clearly shows that Greece does not respect human rights and minority rights,” Hak...
