(2024-08-17). Taliban officials attend military parade on 3rd anniversary of Afghanistan takeover. presstv.ir Taliban officials attend a military parade on the third anniversary of Afghanistan's takeover.
(2024-08-17). Afghan interim govt offers mediation between Pakistan, TTP. gnnhd.tv 
Zabihullah Mujahid said that if Pakistan wants, we can play the role of mediator between Pakistan and TTP…
(2024-08-17). The Asian elephant population grows in southwest China. tvbrics.com 
The Republic strives to conserve the species…
(2024-08-17). Giant panda twins born in HK. ecns.cn Hong Kong is experiencing a new wave of panda fever, with residents warmly extending wishes to the first locally-born twin giant pandas, and hailing the new progress on the delivery of one more pair of pandas gifted by the central government.
(2024-08-17). Panda twins born in Hong Kong. ecns.cn Giant panda Le Le gave birth to panda twins on Thursday. The pair, a female and a male, were cubs of Ying Ying and Le Le, pandas given as a gift by the central government to Hong Kong in 2007. In March, Ying Ying and Le Le completed natural mating in Ocean Park.
(2024-08-17). Ten Theses On The Far Right Of A Special Type. popularresistance.org There has been widespread consternation about how to understand Donald Trump's emergence as a serious candidate for US president since 2016. Far from an isolated phenomenon, Trump rose to power alongside other strongmen such as Viktor Orbán (prime minister of Hungary since 2010), Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan (president of Turkey since 2014), and Narendra Modi (prime minister of India since 2014). People like this, who came to power and cemented their rule through liberal institutions, seem to be impossible to permanently remove through the ballot box. It has become clear that a rightward shift is taking place…
(2024-08-17). Indian-administered Kashmir to hold first elections in 10 years. presstv.ir India has announced three-phased assembly elections in the Kashmir region scheduled for next month, the first since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in 2019 stripped the Muslim-majority region of its semi-autonomy status.
(2024-08-17). Scientists discover herbal medicines in India. tvbrics.com 
They were discovered on Brahmayoni Hill in Gaya, Bihar…
(2024-08-17). While Modi professes concern for the jobless, his government's budget escalates class war. wsws.org The re-elected Modi-led BJP government is whipping up communalism, persecuting political opponents, expanding India's involvement in Washington's incendiary military-strategic offensive against China, and implementing a raft of anti-worker, "pro-investor" policies.
(2024-08-17). Book Release: 'Modi's Governance Triumph' by BJP General Secretary Tarun Chugh. devdiscourse.com New Delhi—BJP General Secretary Tarun Chugh released his new book, 'Modi's Governance Triumph: Reshaping India's Path to Prosperity,' on Saturday. The event saw the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah and Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy.
(2024-08-17). CPJ urges transparency as India broadcast bill raises censorship fears. hindustantimes.com
(2024-08-17). Radhika Desai: Peak Hindutva? newleftreview.org As Modi's BJP loses its overall majority, Radhika Desai examines the part played by India's capitalist conglomerates in his rise—and the contradictions on which their strategy has foundered. The economic crisis of the parched countryside as brake on Hindutva's forward march.
(2024-08-17). Assam Partners with Geological Survey of India for Advanced Landslide Warning System. devdiscourse.com The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) has entered into a partnership with the Geological Survey of India (GSI) to implement a regional Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS) for combating landslides in the state. The agreement was signed by ASDMA CEO Gyanendra Dev Tripathi and GSI's Deputy Director General, Siladitya Sengupta.
(2024-08-17). Third Voice of Global South Summit Amplifies the Needs and Aspirations of Developing Nations. devdiscourse.com Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted India's commitment to uplifting the developing countries during his address at the third Voice of Global South Summit. Modi emphasized India's role in sharing its developmental experience in infrastructure, digital, and energy sectors, significantly boosting cooperation among participating nations.
(2024-08-17). Indian hospitals hit as doctors strike to protest rape, murder of medic. gnnhd.tv 
More than one million doctors were expected to join the strike…
(2024-08-17). Narendra Modi celebra su victoria en las elecciones generales. telesurtv.net Narendra Modi necesitará el apoyo de otros partidos para gobernar, algo inédito en sus anteriores mandatos.
(2024-08-17). Bangladesh : Who is Muhammad Yunus, the new prime minister ? cadtm.org
(2024-08-17). Bangladesh: the 'Global South' debt crisis intensifies. cadtm.org
(2024-08-17). Rain threatens to disrupt first test between Pakistan and Bangladesh. gnnhd.tv 
Match between two countries is scheduled from August 21…
(2024-08-17). Senior Xinjiang officials meet with visiting Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in Urumqi. ecns.cn Northwest China's Xinjiang regional Party chief Ma Xingrui and Erkin Tuniyaz, chairman of the regional government met with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in Urumqi on Thursday.
(2024-08-17). Pezeshkian: Close Iran-Indonesia ties foster unity among Muslim nations. presstv.ir Pezeshkian made the remark in a message to Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
(2024-08-17). Pakistan: Iran has right to self-defense in face of Israeli terrorism. presstv.ir Pakistan says Iran has every right to defend itself in the face of the Israeli regime.
(2024-08-17). Iran urges 'practical measures' to end Israeli genocide in Gaza. presstv.ir Iran's interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani underlines the need for "practical measures" aimed at putting an end to Israel's ongoing Gaza genocide.
(2024-08-17). Doha talks: Iran warns about 'deceit, dishonesty' of Israel, US. presstv.ir Commenting on Gaza ceasefire talks underway in Qatar, Iran has warned about "the deceit and dishonesty" of the criminal Israeli regime and its the United States.
(2024-08-17). US warns Iran faces 'cataclysmic' consequences if strikes Israel. newarab.com 
A US official warned Friday that Iran would face "cataclysmic" consequences and derail momentum toward a Gaza truce if it strikes The United States "would encourage the Iranians — and I know many are — not to move down that road, because the consequences could be quite cataclysmic, particularly for Iran," a senior US official told reporters on customary…
(2024-08-17). Why I Left The Service: Military Officer On Ukraine, Gaza, And US Decline. popularresistance.org At this point, we have a clear understanding of the fundamental mechanism behind U.S. foreign policy: the use of hard power, including the threat or actual deployment of military intervention and economic sanctions, to contain and isolate perceived rival powers such as Russia, China, and, to a lesser extent, Iran and the Axis of Resistance. For those familiar with the disinformation operations of Western legacy media and intelligence agencies, it is increasingly evident that U.S. hard power is experiencing unprecedented decline. | The sheer inertia behind the United States Empire will ensure a measure of global d…
(2024-08-17). Pezeshkian calls for national consensus as parliament debates cabinet lineup. presstv.ir Iran's Parliament has officially started reviewing the qualifications of proposed ministers in the new administration.
(2024-08-17). IRGC Sets Up Field Hospital on Border with Iraq to Serve Arbaeen Pilgrims. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — As the Arbaeen season has gained momentum with huge crowds of Iranians traveling to Iraq, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Ground Force has built a large makeshift hospital at a western border crossing to provide medical services to the pilgrims.
(2024-08-17). Burundian journalist Floriane Irangabiye released after two years in prison. x.com
(2024-08-17). Pezeshkian in Parliament to Defend His Proposed Cabinet. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has attended an open session of the Parliament on Saturday morning to defend his nominees for the cabinet posts.
(2024-08-17). Diez cubanos competirán en Mundial Juvenil de Atletismo. cubadebate.cu Cuba estará representada por diez exponentes en el Campeonato Mundial Juvenil de Atletismo de Lima 2024, que entre el 27 y el 31 de agosto retomará las emociones dejadas por este deporte en los recién concluidos Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024. Lideran el grupo la vallista Jocelyn Echazabal y el triplista Gian Carlos Baxter, ubicados en los lugares tres y cinco, respectivamente, del ranking universal para menores de 20 años.
(2024-08-17). Irán inicia etapa de calificación de candidatos a elecciones. telesurtv.net Tras el proceso de investigación, el Ministerio del Interior anunciará los candidatos finales el 11 de junio, y los calificados tendrán 15 días, del 12 al 26 de junio, para llevar a cabo sus campañas electorales.
(2024-08-17). Presidente de Siria recibe a canciller de Irán. telesurtv.net Ambos políticos debatieron sobre el estado de las relaciones bilaterales, así como el avance de la agresión de Israel en la Franja de Gaza.
(2024-08-17). Six killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon. gnnhd.tv 
Israeli military said the airstrike targeted a weapons depot used by Hezbollah militants…
(2024-08-17). Day 316: Dozens Of Casualties As Israeli Continues To Bomb Gaza. imemc.org 
Earlier Saturday, day 316 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles, shells, and live fire, killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and women. Palestinian children were torn to pieces as the army bombarded displaced families in central Gaza. At least 11 Palestinians were killed, and many were …
(2024-08-17). Australian opposition leader spearheads bipartisan offensive against Gaza refugees. wsws.org Liberal-National Coalition leader Peter Dutton this week demanded a total ban on Palestinians trying to flee the intensifying US-armed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
(2024-08-17). Update: Day 316: Dozens Of Casualties As Israel Continues To Bomb Gaza. imemc.org Updated: On Saturday, day 316 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles, shells, and live fire killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and women. Palestinian children were torn to pieces as the army bombarded displaced families in central Gaza.
(2024-08-17). Israeli Colonizers Displace 14 Families In Northern Plains. imemc.org 
The remaining fourteen Palestinian families in the Umm al-Jimal Bedouin community, located in the northern Jordan Valley, have been compelled to dismantle their residences and vacate the area due to increasing assaults and serious violations by fanatic, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, supported by Israeli occupation forces. Official reports state that 14 families were forced out …
(2024-08-17). 15 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Strike on Central Gaza. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — At least 15 people have been reported killed, with some still missing, after the Israeli military bombed a warehouse reportedly sheltering displaced Palestinians in the az-Zawayda area of central Gaza.
(2024-08-17). Hezbollah's Upper Hand Slaps 'Israel': Deaths, Injuries, Fires in North of Occupied Palestine (Video). english.almanar.com.lb The Islamic Resistance continued on Friday striking the Israeli occupation posts and settlements near Lebanon southern borders in response to the Zionist aggression on South Lebanon and support of Gaza. Hezbollah Military Media issued consecutive statements to detail the attacks and their outcomes. The first statement mentioned that, in response to the "Israeli" enemy's assaults …
(2024-08-17). Israeli Media Overwhelmed by Hezbollah Tunnel Video Posing Strategic Questions. english.almanar.com.lb The Israeli media concentrated in the recent hours on the military clues of the tunnel video published by Hezbollah Military Media. Hezbollah's Military Media published on Friday a video showcasing a massive missile facility located deep underground, in a clear message of full readiness to the Israeli enemy. The four-and-a-half-minute video displays ready-to-launch precision and …
(2024-08-17). Israeli media report casualties due to heavy missile fire from Lebanon. english.almanar.com.lb
(2024-08-17). West Bank Residents Fight Back Against Israeli Raids. english.almanar.com.lb Locals in the West Bank are taking a stand against Israeli raids in their towns, with confrontations erupting in Ya'bad and Tulkarm. Palestinian resistance fighters fought back against Israeli occupation forces, firing upon military vehicles in Tulkarm. Despite Israeli attempts to oppress Palestinians in the West Bank, support for Gaza remains strong. The number of …
(2024-08-17). Resignation of Columbia's Shafik over Gaza protest widely lauded. newarab.com 
The resignation of Columbia University president Many in the left-leaning pro-Palestine camp have been criticising her for ordering a brutal police crackdown on student demonstrators, and many in the right-leaning pro-Israel camp have been…
(2024-08-17). Israeli settlers launch new pogrom in Palestinian W Bank village. newarab.com 
Dozens of masked The Palestinian ministry of health reported several wounded following the violent attack, with settlers' also targeting residents of the village of Jit with live fire. | The Palestinian man killed in the attack has been identified as 23-year-o…
(2024-08-17). Denmark in court over arms sales to Israel amid Gaza war. newarab.com 
(2024-08-17). Hamas against Israeli plan to leave troops on Egypt-Gaza border. newarab.com 
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(2024-08-17). Palestinians rally in Ramallah against Israeli 'massacre' in Gaza school. presstv.ir Palestinians rallied in Ramallah to denounce Israeli 'massacre' in Gaza City school that killed at least 100 individuals.
(2024-08-17). Hezbollah unveils new missile facility, warns Israel of 'unexpected destiny'. presstv.ir Lebanon's resistance movement revealed the "Imad 4" facility in a video released by its Military Media outlet.
(2024-08-17). Ten killed in Israeli strike on southern Lebanon building: Ministry. presstv.ir At least ten people have been killed and five others seriously wounded after an Israeli airstrike targeted a residential building northwest of the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.
(2024-08-17). Protesters march in support of Palestinians after Friday prayers in Amman. presstv.ir Jordanians have once again been out on the streets to express support for the Palestinian people, particularly those facing the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza.
(2024-08-17). Hamas, Islamic Jihad call for popular uprising after deadly Israeli settler attack in West Bank. presstv.ir Palestinian resistance groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have denounced the attack by illegal Israeli settlers on a northern West Bank village, where they killed a Palestinian and set fire to homes and cars belonging to other residents.
(2024-08-17). Hamas: Ceasefire must involve 'complete' Israeli withdrawal. presstv.ir Hamas has once again stressed that any agreement with Israel must ensure a comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza.
(2024-08-17). Israeli doctor exposes shocking conditions at notorious prison. presstv.ir An Israeli military doctor has presented a horrendous testimony on the appalling and fairly inhumane conditions of sick Palestinian prisoners being held at a detention center in Israel.
(2024-08-17). Yemenis reiterate support for Palestinians against Israel. presstv.ir Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets of the capital Sana'a and other provinces across the country to reiterate their support for Palestinians in Gaza who are subjected to an Israeli genocidal war.
(2024-08-17). Hamas says will not accept new truce conditions from Israel: Report. presstv.ir The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas reportedly says it will not accept new truce conditions from the Israeli regime.
(2024-08-17). Israel Is Holding Thousands of Palestinians Captive — Including Children. truthout.org In October 2023, Fadiah Barghouti's home in Ramallah was raided by Israeli forces. Soldiers broke down her door and smashed everything that they could get their hands on. They were searching for her son Basel, whom they beat along with her other son, saying they would all "pay the price for supporting Hamas." It was a claim Barghouti was familiar with: Her husband Mahmoud is currently being held… |
(2024-08-17). Israeli drone targets a motorcycle on Cadmous road in northern Tyre: Al-Manar reporter. english.almanar.com.lb
(2024-08-17). Rashid Khalidi: The Neck and The Sword. newleftreview.org Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali discuss the political and intellectual history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught entanglement with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the 'peace process', Israel's grip on the Biden Administration and the strategic calculations—or miscalculations—of Hamas.
(2024-08-17). Snow White remake slammed over casting of Gal Gadot. newarab.com 
Activists have called for a boycott of the Snow White remake after it was announced Israeli actress Gal Gadot will be featuring in it. | Earlier this week, the film's trailer was slammed by social media users who criticised the choice of casting Gadot in the film. | The Israeli actress, who will be featured as the Evil Queen in the film, has previously expressed support for Israel. | On 7 October, the day Israel launched its war on Gaza following a surprise Hamas-led attack, the actress posted "I stand with Israel" on Instagram. | "The thing about Gal Gadot being cast as an evil queen is that she doesn't have…
(2024-08-17). Israeli Soldiers Invade Tulkarem. imemc.org 
On Saturday dawn, several Israeli military vehicles invaded Tulkarem city, in the occupied West Bank's northwestern part. Media sources said the army stormed the city from its southern part, before invading several neighborhoods and storming homes. They added that the soldiers concentrated the invasions into the area of Nablus Street, near the Tulkarem refugee camp, …
(2024-08-17). Gaza one of 21st century's 'bloodiest wars' amid high death toll. newarab.com 
Israel's war in Gaza, ongoing for The number is considered excessive due to the small population of the Strip a…
(2024-08-17). Yemenis Rally in Support of Palestinians amid Ongoing Israeli War in Gaza. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of Sanaa and other provinces on Friday afternoon, showing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes.
(2024-08-17). Soldiers Abduct A Father And His Son In Nablus. imemc.org 
On Saturday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank's northern part before abducting a father and his son. Media sources said several military vehicles invaded the refugee camp and fired barrages of live rounds. They added that the soldiers stormed and ransacked many homes, before …
(2024-08-17). New harrowing abuse details emerge from Israel's Sde Teiman. newarab.com 
More details have surfaced on the human rights violations taking place at the notorious Israeli reservist soldiers who served at the prison over the months spoke to the Haar…
(2024-08-17). Ben Gvir: Israeli army should shoot Palestinians throwing stones. newarab.com 
(2024-08-17). Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan, dad of newborns killed by Israel, speaks. newarab.com 
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(2024-08-17). Borrell to propose sanctions against Israel over West Bank settler attacks. presstv.ir "Day after day, in an almost total impunity, Israeli settlers fuel violence in the occupied West Bank, contributing to endanger any chance of peace," Borrell wrote on X.
(2024-08-17). Israeli media: Number of soldiers dead or injured in a "hard incident" in Gaza. english.almanar.com.lb
(2024-08-17). Israel Approves New Colony On Lands Marked As UNESCO World Heritage Site. imemc.org 
The far-right Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu and his fanatic colonial settlers' coalition partners, has officially published plans to establish a new illegal Israeli colony in the Al-Makhrour Mountain, officially registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The decision was made after the Israeli government vowed to "legalize" …
(2024-08-17). Funeral of Palestinians killed during West Bank Israeli raid. presstv.ir Mourners take part in the funeral of three Palestinians.
(2024-08-17). Israeli media outlets report "hard incident" in Gaza. english.almanar.com.lb
(2024-08-17). Minuto a minuto del asedio israelí contra la Franja de Gaza. telesurtv.net En varios países continúan realizándose actividades para expresar apoyo al pueblo palestino y condenar el genocidio que comete Israel.
(2024-08-17). ONU condena más de 500 asesinatos de palestinos en Cisjordania. telesurtv.net Más de 500 palestinos han muerto desde el 7 de octubre en actos de violencia en la ocupada Cisjordania vinculados al asedio del Ejército israelí de ocupación en Gaza.
(2024-08-17). Gaza records first polio case as UN urges vaccinations. newarab.com 
Gaza has recorded its first Tests in Jordan confirmed the
(2024-08-17). Islamic Resistance fires Katyusha missile barrages at Ayelet HaShahar settlement in response to Zionist aggression on Kfour town in South Lebanon: statement. english.almanar.com.lb
(2024-08-17). Hezbollah video appears to show its tunnels, missiles. newarab.com 
Lebanon's The release comes as negotiators seeking a Gaza ceasefire were to meet for a second day in
(2024-08-17). CPJ urges Mongolia not to contest investigative journalist's appeal against conviction. zarig.mn
(2024-08-17). Woman Defends Herself Against Drunken Advances with Kitchen Spatula in Thane. devdiscourse.com A 30-year-old man was injured after a woman used a metal spatula to fend off his alleged unwanted advances in Thane district, Maharashtra, officials said on Saturday.
(2024-08-17). Mainland slams DPP for deceiving, intimidating Taiwan compatriots. ecns.cn A spokeswoman from the Chinese mainland condemned on Friday the Democratic Progressive Party authorities in Taiwan for distorting measures against "Taiwan independence", with the intention to deceive and intimidate Taiwan people.
(2024-08-17). Chinese mainland criticizes Taiwan's findings on fatal fishing boat incident near Jinmen. ecns.cn A spokeswoman from the Chinese mainland on Friday criticized Taiwan's released investigation findings regarding a mainland fishing boat incident earlier this year near Jinmen, where two fishermen died, as disregarding the facts.
(2024-08-17). Pakistan logs first mpox case as fears grow of global spread. newarab.com 
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(2024-08-17). 'Monsoon brides': Extreme weather fuels child marriages in Sindh. gnnhd.tv 
Pakistan's high rate of marriages for underage girls had been inching lower in recent years…
(2024-08-17). Voters Are Sending A Clear Message Ahead Of The DNC. popularresistance.org As Democrats prepare for their National Convention in Chicago next week, anti-genocide protesters and advocates are gearing up to meet them there. While Democratic leaders hope to demonstrate unusual party unity at the Convention, the yawning gap between those leaders and most Democratic voters—especially the key sectors of young voters, progressives, Muslim- and Arab-Americans—stands in the way of that unity. | Democratic policy toward Palestine is not the only problematic issue in the Democrats' policy book, but it's a prominent one. Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor her running mate, Governo…
(2024-08-17). A Turning Point or More of the Same? The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Palestine and Its Global Impact. justpeaceadvocates.ca Just Peace Advocates was pleased to be invited to join the Faculty for Palestine at University of Victoria for this critical and timely session. Over 300 people registered with over 150 attending. As the global spotlight shifted to the U.S. election and University campuses quieted for the summer with the end of student encampments, the …
(2024-08-17). Critical Updates on Kursk and the War in Palestine. sonar21.com 
A very busy day. I did a controlled rant on Daniel Davis Deep Dive and my usual Friday interview with Nima. I want to start with the latest update on what happened at Kursk from my good friend, Pepe Escobar. He has excellent sources in Russia. The following article was published originally at An extremely serious debate is already raging among selected circles of power/intelligence in Moscow — and the heart of the matter could not be more incandescent. | To cut to the chase: wh…
(2024-08-17). Hamas rejects 'new' Gaza truce conditions as Biden says deal closer than ever. gnnhd.tv 
Washington has joined its European allies in pushing for a swift ceasefire in Gaza…
(2024-08-17). Head of Qatari intelligence receives top CIA award>. newarab.com 
The spy chief was recognised for his work towards strengthening US-Qatari intelligence cooperation, the report said, citing two sources privy to the matter. | The Qatari official was awarded in a ceremony that took place at the CIA headquarters earlier this week, as the two coun…
(2024-08-17). Saudi Arabia opens new areas of study for professional development in the arts and culture sector. tvbrics.com 
Amateurs and professionals have the opportunity to enrol in courses and contribute to the cultural sector…
(2024-08-17). US military conducts live-fire drills in South Korea to test deployment readiness. presstv.ir The US military conducted live-fire drills in South Korea to exercise deployment readiness.
(2024-08-17). SEP stands in Sri Lankan presidential election to fight for a socialist program. wsws.org The SEP is intervening in the election to advance the program and perspective of international socialism for the working class, against imperialist war, ruling class austerity and moves toward dictatorial forms of rule.
(2024-08-17). The conjuncture in the crisis. polity.lk If Sri Lanka is on the 'road to recovery', why is the public unpersuaded?>
(2024-08-17). Protests in Syria's Suwayda: What did they achieve one year on. newarab.com 
Activists in the southern Syrian province of Suwayda on Friday marked the first anniversary of The protests in Suwayda which began in August 2023 were reminiscent of
(2024-08-17). SDF lift siege of Syrian regime-held areas of Qamishli, Hasakah. newarab.com 
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have lifted a blockade they imposed last week on Syrian regime-held areas of the cities of Qamishli and Al-Hasakah. | The blockades were imposed after The agreement to lift them came following mediation by the regime's other main ally, Russia. | Most of Qamishli…
(2024-08-17). Wildfires, fanned by strong winds, blaze in Turkey's west and north. newarab.com 
A forest fire in The fire in Izmir started late on Thursday in the Karsiyaka district for unknown reasons, as firefighters already worked to contain three separate fires in northwestern Turkey. | Izmir Governor Suleyman Elban said the fire in Karsiyaka continued in between four and five…
(2024-08-17). Lawmakers in Turkey draw blood in brawl during debate on jailed colleague. newarab.com 
A brawl broke out among Televised footage showed Ahmet Sik, a representative from the same party as the imprisoned deputy, being approached and attacked by a lawmaker from President In a su…
(2024-08-17). Brawl in Turkish parliament over ousted MP. geo.tv 
Former Turkish football player and deputy of ruling AKP Alpay Ozalan scuffles with Turkish Workers Party deputy Ahmet Sik at Grand National Assembly of Turkey in Ankara on August 16, 2024. — AFP
(2024-08-16). Twenty-fifth anniversary of the August 17, 1999 Gà∂lcàºk earthquake. wsws.org Time is being wasted when the technology and labour are available to build millions of safe houses in a very short time in Turkey and everywhere in the world where there is a risk of earthquakes.
(2024-08-17). Yemen: Heavy flooding leaves at least 57 dead. newarab.com 
At least 57 people have been killed in heavy flooding across OCHA's head of finance, Lisa Dutton, said the flooding has injured over 600 people and caused widespread devastation in central Yemen. | "Heavy rains and floods have hit several governorates in Yeme…
(2024-08-17). Al-Qaeda kills 16 Yemeni pro-government fighters: official. newarab.com 
A bomb attack on Friday in southern An explosive-laden vehicle targeted a site of the
(2024-08-17). Yemen rivals threaten to resume war, UN envoy warns. newarab.com 
Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at a campaign event in Asheville, North Carolina, U.S. August 14, 2024. — Reuters
American media company says the ratio of electricity bills is higher than the house rent…
Of the international intelligence information that comes to Australian agencies from the Five Eyes, 90 percent comes from the CIA and related US intelligence agencies. So in effect we have the colonisation of our intelligence agencies These agencies dominate the advice to ministers, writes John Menadue. INTERVIEW: John Menadue talks with Michael Lester Michael Lester:…
Participants will exchange views and priorities on a wide range of issues on a common platform…
CPI(ML) Liberation — The unification of Jharkhand's two leading Left forces, CPI(ML) Liberation and Marxist Coordination Committee, was announced on 10 August.
Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik's wife Mashal Malik said world should ask India on what basis it is celebrating independence…
Holding candles and posters that said "reclaim the night"
The Egyptian Minister of Energy noted that relations between the two countries serve as an ideal model for constructive cooperation between Arab countries…
Ahmad Bin Quasem giving an interview after he was released from being confined for eight years by the Sheikh Hasina government. — AFP/File DHAKA: Blindfolded, handcuffed and bundled out of his secret prison for the first time in eight years, Bangladeshi barrister Ahmad Bin Quasem…
Two ICC World Test Championship fixtures will be played between Pakistan and Bangladesh…
The past ten months of Governments in this part of Europe have responded in various ways to the conflict, with each considering public opinion at home and geopolitical dynamics vis-à -vis the EU, the US, Israel, Arab states, Turkey, Iran, and Russia. | In 
On July 24th, Benjamin 'Bibi' Netanyahu swaggered into the U.S. Capitol to address a joint session of Congress and to cultivate material and emotional support for his upcoming war with Iran. During the course of his nagging hour-long harangue, the Israeli prime minister received 58 standing ovations from submissive stooges on both sides of the aisle, proving once more that Pat Buchanan's description of Capitol Hill as "Israeli-occupied territory" is as true today as it was 30 years ago.
Salehi, 33, was arrested in October 2022 after publicly backing demonstrations that erupted a month earlier, triggered by the death in police custody of Iranian Kurdish woman Amini, 22, was detained b…
Millions of This event, which marks the 40th day of mourning following the martyrdom of Imam Hussein bin Ali, a central figure i…
The British Ambassador to Iraq During his appearance on 
On Thursday, day 314 of Israel's ongoing assault of the entire civilian population of the entire Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their attacks on Palestinians by land, sea and air. Before dawn Thursday morning, six Palestinians were killed and others were injured in Israeli occupation forces' shelling of Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, and Bani …
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Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif is alive, says senior official | Osama Hamdan tells AP that Deif is 'fine' and dismisses the Israeli assassination claim as an attempt to 'justify the massacre' of Palestinians in the 13 July attack | | A billboard in Tel Aviv displays portraits of Hamas leaders…
One person was killed and nine others wounded in a strike on the southern town of Marjayoun, the Lebanese health ministry said, revising downwards a previous death toll of three. | Another was k…
On Wednesday, Day 313 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children, women, and infants, in several parts of the devastated, destroyed, and besieged Gaza Strip, especially in Khan Younis. The head of the government media office in Gaza, Ismael Thawabta, said the Israeli army continues to …
Columbia University president resigns months after pro-Palestine protests | A student group that led the protests welcomes Minouche Shafik's departure but pushes for divestment from Israeli-linked companies | | Columbia University President Minouche Shafik testifies before the House Education and…
Since then, the family, along with Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists, have continuously returned to their land to demonstrate against the eviction and reclaim their home. | "[The settlers] are trying now to use the war and [with] all eyes on Gaza and the demonstrations happening in Israel," Alice Kisiya, 30, told The New Arab. | "So they're taking advantage of this situation to steal more lands," she adds. | 
Martyrdom toll of Palestinians has now risen to over forty thousand…
Pledging arms embargo on Israel would help Harris gain more voter support: Poll | Harris' aides previously rejected outright that the vice president would agree to stop sending Israel weapons | | Pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, on 1…
Israeli settlers kidnapped and abused two Palestinian teenage boys near On Monday, Israeli settlers from a new illegal settlement outpost in the area assaulted two 15-year-old Palestinian boys who were herding sheep around the suburb of Irtas south of Bethlehem. | The settlers put knives on the boys' necks and took them to their settlement outpost, where they beat them, broke their legs, and urinated on them. | They…
Soon after Vice-President Kamala Harris introduced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, the attacks on his military record began. Quick comparisons were drawn in the media to the "Swiftboating" of Democratic candidate John Kerry in 2004. Too be straight about it, debating the finer points of Walz's military record misses the larger point being made 
A chilling new account of Israel's alleged use of Palestinian civilians as human shields has emerged from Gaza as mounting evidence The 
While Israel's relentless onslaught of the enclave had "severely…
The United States hailed a "promising start" to Israel's onslaught has devastated Gaza, displaced nearly all of its population at least once and triggered a towering humanitarian crisis. | Talks involving CIA director William Burns opened in the Qatari capital 
NAGASAKI, Japan—Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Koike Akira said at a press conference in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 that the city's decision not to invite Israel to its annual peace ceremony "should not be criticized." Koike said this when asked by reporters about the exclusion of Israeli government representatives from the peace event held to …
"Two men, aged 18 and 20, were killed and seven people were wounded, one of them seriously, in 
The UK's Currently, one of the most prominent forms of 
The official Humanitarian organisations, such as Islamic Relief Worldwide, on…
Editor's Note: This week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the Biden administration was approving $20 billion of fresh weapons sales to the Israeli government. Most of these "sales" will be paid for by Israel with cash and or vouchers provided by the American taxpayer. The total includes: $18.82 billion for "up to …
Saudi Crown Prince The sources, who include one unnamed former US official and two individuals with knowledge of the talks, said the kingdom's de-facto ruler shared these fears with US lawmakers. | Prince Mohammed allegedly highlighted the US's alleged failure to protect slain Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who was assassinated in October 1981 after normalis…
In the break room of the Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford sits a bookcase filled with ceramic replicas of bedpans. | The bed pans are a homage to the work carried out by Howard Florey, Ernst Chain, and their colleagues in the 1940s at the department making penicillin and demonstrating its efficacy in fighting bacterial infections. | They used bedpans as enormous flasks to culture the Penicillium notatum mould. When I was a PhD student in the department, I used to gaze on the simple, beige vessels and sense the gravity of the research being carried out by my colleagues. | While I was, admitt…
A collapsed house is seen following an earthquake in Osaki town, Kagoshima prefecture, southwestern Japan, August 8, 2024, in this photo taken by Kyodo. — Reuters
Japanese Minister of State assured to help Pakistan in getting funding from the World Bank…
Samjiyon city in North Korea before the COVID-19 pandemic. — Reuters/File North Korea has decided to open its borders to foreign tourists in December after the borders were closed down nearly five years ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tourists will be allowed to…
IOWA CITY, IA—Framing the offer as an enriching opportunity for exercise and a fun change of pace, area marketing manager Kyle Sanchez asked Thursday if his coworker Brittany Price might be interested in reliving her childhood trauma on their work volleyball team. "Hey, we're looking for a few more people for the… 
Muslim women walk in the park after finishing a GCSE exam near their school in Hackney, London. —Reuters/File71% British Muslims think UK media negatively portrays them.Researcher say insights crucial for fostering cultural awareness.39% of Muslims in UK describe themselves as Pakistani.
Association says internet speed in Pakistan dropped by 30 to 40 percent…
Authorities have begun tracing individuals who came into contact with the patient…
Barrister Gohar stated that Pakistan Army is a strong institution, and the matter of Faiz Hameed is its internal matter…
When President Barack Obama wanted to bomb Syria in 2013 following reports that Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons on his own people, Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., who represented a rural district in southern Minnesota, went to a local grocery store. | Walz stood outside the store and asked everybody that came out whether they supported bombing Syria. Every single person said no. | "He was clearly stunned because he told us that story the next time we talked to him," said Cathy Murphy, president of the Minnesota Peace Project, which has lobbied Walz on a range of foreign policy issues over the years. "It's l…
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 37, the Pheu Thai Party's most visible candidate for prime minister, looks on during the general election campaign in Ubon Ratchathani province, Thailand, February 17, 2023. — ReutersBANGKOK: Thailand's Pheu Thai party has chosen 37-year-old Paetongtarn…
Environmental destruction is not an unintended side effect, but a primary objective in colonial wars of occupation. By David Whyte and Samira Homerang Saunders Many in the international community are finally coming to accept that the earth's ecosystem can no longer bear the weight of military occupation. Most have reached this inevitable conclusion, clearly articulated in the…
Today is Pakistan's independence day, and tomorrow is India's independence day. British India once comprised India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. In 1947, the British packed their bags and left. Pakistan and India were the two successor states forged after absorbing the princely states, which the British used as puppets. In 1971, Bangladesh won its independence from… 
Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin arrives to welcome Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah at the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, April 29, 2024. — Reuters New prime minister must be chosen by parliament.Phumtham Wechayachai to take over as interim PM.Court ruling raises…
The United States appears to have moved far from its self-proclaimed post-racial status, with deepening societal and political divides echoing some of the old Civil War battle lines that never really healed. | The current election campaign, pitting white nationalist Donald Trump against the biracial Kamala Harris, is exacerbating these divides. | But this dynamic reflects longstanding racial tensions that were intensified during Obama's presidency, underscoring the persistent impact of race on American politics. | Just as Obama faced accusations of being "foreign" due to his upbringing in Hawaii and Indonesia,…
I have found what I want to be when I grow up (glad I'm figuring that out since I turn 70 in January). A guy who gets to interview folks without having to handle invites and the technical aspects of the video, audio and editing. Danny Davis has a producer, Gary Villapiano. A great guy who used to work for Judge Napolitano (they parted as friends). | I have been wanting to interview Jacques for some time. Guess I was too lazy to track him down. Fortunately, he is a regular on Daniel Davis Deep Dive and I got the chance to do a virtual sitdown with him today. We spent most of the hour talking about Iran and I…
Iran may be about to launch a proper missile strike on Israel for the first time ever — in retaliation for the attack on Tehran last month which killed Ismail Haniyeh. Israeli intelligence says an attack is likely to come within days. The Jerusalem Post on 11 August quoted Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of 
The artefacts were discovered during archaeological research near the UNESCO World Heritage site of Soltaniyeh…
On Wednesday, Day 313 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells targeted various parts of the devastated and densely populated Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens, including children, infants and women. The army fired missiles and shells at various parts of the coastal enclave, especially areas west and north of Rafah, in the Gaza …
US envoy Amos Hochstein confirmed on Wednesday that work is underway at various diplomatic levels to avoid an all-out war between Hochstein, a senior adviser to US President Joe Biden, landed in the Lebanese capital earlier that day in a bid to deter an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel, after the latter killed a senior comman…
Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov has accused Israel of committing Bartov, a professor at Brown University in the 
Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war on Gaza, according to the official death toll, though the true casualty figure is likely far higher with thousands of the dead unaccounted for. Meanwhile, Israeli forces have raided towns and villages across the occupied West Bank, and settlers under military protection have repeatedly stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in recent days. This all comes as the State Department on Tuesday announced the approval of $20 billion in new arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets. We speak with the Reverend Munther Isaac, pastor at the Evangeli…
Israel is attempting to delay the issuing of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court ( According to Haaretz, 
The Israeli army has been using abducted Palestinian civilians as The civilians, who the soldiers refer to as shawish, or 'sergeant' in Arabic, are used by the army to carry out dangerous search operations while dressed in Israeli army uniform, according to soldiers…
In his remarkable literary memoir, Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Srour crafts a universe from the monotonous surroundings of his prison cell. | Srour's memoir, The Tale of a Wall, was written from within the carceral condition that he has endured since 1993 when he was imprisoned towards the end of the Accused of being an accomplice to the murder of an Israeli intelligence officer, he was convicted based on a confession extracted under torture and sentenced to life in…
The The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that one man was kille…
In the immediate aftermath of October 7, before the dust had settled and the wholesale destruction of Gaza had commenced, claims of High-profile figures penned pieces about not believing Jewish women and the undermining of the 
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian child, on Tuesday, while he was working in a car wash in the town of Anata, northeast of occupied Jerusalem. According to a statement by the media office in the Jerusalem Governorate, occupation forces shot and killed the child, Shady Wissam Sheha, 16, in Anata town. Media sources …
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved the sale of F-15 jets and equipment worth nearly $19 billion along with tank cartridges valued at $774 million, explosive mortar cartridges valued at ove…
Rajoub, who is also the head of the Palestinian Football Association, was detained at the King Hussein border (Karama)…
The The Defence Ministry Rehabilitation Department said that of the 10,056 
'All that was left was bones': Palestinian father mourns newborn twins killed by Israeli army | Muhammad Abu al-Qumsan was getting birth certificates for his children when an Israeli shell struck his apartment, also killing his wife and mother-in-law | | "> | Muhammad Ab…
Israel has approved a new 
Relations between Jordan and Israel have come under further strain over a scandal related to allegedly tainted vegetables exported from the kingdom. | Israeli media outlets reported on Monday that Tel Aviv had halted imports of some fruits and vegetables from Despite no evidence yet of produce being contaminated, the pause on imports was taken as a precautionary measure while Israel's Health Ministry investigates further. | T…
On Wednesday dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Qalqilia and Hableh town, south of the city in the northwestern West Bank, and abducted three Palestinians, including one child. Media sources said several military vehicles invaded Qalqilia from its eastern area before the soldiers destroyed infrastructure. They added that the soldiers invaded the Al-Iman Mosque in the city, …
An expert on the process said some deliveries could be even earlier than 2026…
Hamas will not participate in crunch In a statement to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Hamas politburo member Suhail Al-Hindi reiterated his group's insistence on a return to the Israel is reportedly pushing for new c…
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on August 14, 2024. — REUTERSTOKYO: Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced stepping down next month on the back of political scandals and widespread public…
The LDP will hold a contest in September to replace him as president of the ruling party…
Jordan using cybercrime laws 'against pro-Palestine' sentiment, Amnesty says | Violations under the law include 'spreading fake news', 'provoking strife' and 'contempt for religions' | | Protesters in Amman, Jordan, carry placards honouring slain Palestinian figures on 9 August 2024 (Reuters/Alaa…
The 2024 Olympics are officially done, but there's one bronze medal that's still hanging in the balance. That medal was initially awarded to American gymnast Jordan Chiles. Chiles, who won gold with the US team in Paris, placed third in the floor event final…
This Monday, the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, confirmed that 25 people died in the violent events following the presidential elections on July 28. The two regions with the most fatalities were Caracas and Aragua, with seven deaths in each. He attributed the deaths to the "comanditos" organized by the opposition. The executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, also presented reports on the subject. | Before the National Defense Council and the Council of State, AG Saab provided a detailed report of the investigations that the Public Ministry began on Sunday, July 28, when "the origins of a pla…
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has rejected the Alcohol Control Bill, 2023 that sought to regulate the purchase, sell and consumption of alcohol. The private members Bill that was introduced for the first time by Tororo District Woman Representative, Sarah Opendi in November 2023 also aimed to regulate the time and premises where alcohol …
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala has temporarily halted the hearing of a corruption case involving three Members of Parliament. The MPs Lwengo District Woman MP Cissy Namujju Dionizia, Bunyole East MP Yusuf Mutembuli, and the Busiki County MP Paul Akamba are accused of soliciting a 20 percent bribe from the …
Mobile apps disrupted in several cities including Rawalpindi and Islamabad…
Olympic star Arshad Nadeem and Senate Chairman Yusuf Raza Gilani were also present at event…
We are a free nation just because the martyrs' sacrifices…
CERT advises to take immediate steps to protect their digital systems…
The armed forces honored those who played a vital role in Pakistan's struggle for independence…
Elias Khoury, a well-known Lebanese novelist and public intellectual, recognised globally for his Khoury is celebrated for his engaging storytelling and distinctive viewpoint and is known for his advocacy of free speech and democratic principles. | His writing frequently 
For migrants and refugees, the change was long-awaited. After years of promises, major amendments to Germany's citizenship law came into force earlier this summer, announced by the interior ministry as " In the revamp, migrants and refugees could now become dual nationals, no longer needing to give up official ties to their home country. They could also apply for citizenship after a shorter period of living in Germany, from eight years down to five or even three years. | A…
With a federal judge's denial on Tuesday to activists for a longer protest route at the "The court case is not the be-all-end-all. We're going to appeal and will continue pressuring the city to say that this is ridiculous, Muhammad Sank…
The following statement was issued by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Office of Martyrs, Prisoners and Wounded on Aug. 8, 2024, by the Resistance News Network. Incarcerated Palestinians The leak of rape and torture scenes that Palestinian detainees are subjected to in the extermination camp at "Sde . . . | 
Five industrial associations are currently under the ministry's control…
Paris Olympics 2024: Algerian boxer Imane Khelif names JK Rowling and Elon Musk in lawsuit | Khelif was the subject of tabloid and social media controversy over unproven claims that she was a man | | Imane Khelif has blamed 'bullying' for the controversy surrounding her presence at the Olympics (A…
Yemen's Houthi rebels stormed the headquarters of the United Nations' Human Rights Office in the capital, Sanaa, seizing documents, furniture and vehicles, a senior UN official said Tuesday. | The seizure was the latest move in The rebels to…
B-girl Talash, 21, unveiled the blue top with the slogan on Friday just before the first duel of the whole competition, against India Sardjoe of the Netherlands. | "Refugee athlete B-girl Talash was dis…
Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a large rally in the heart of New Zealand's largest city today strongly condemned Israel's indiscriminate killing of Palestinian children in its 10-month genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip. The 2000-strong rally was replicated in "Stop the war on children" protests across New Zealand this weekend. Ironically, the demonstrations…
Portland, Oregon — Protesters disrupted U.S. Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley's Town Hall in Clackamas, Oregon, held inside the Oregon National Guard station on Aug. 2. The demonstration was organized by a coalition of groups opposing the U.S. increased military funding to the Philippines to further escalate the cold war against . . . | 
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses shock and serious concern over the fact that a number of working journalists were killed in the recent past across Bangladesh. This as the south Asian nation witnessed massive anti-government protests that snatched away the lives of over 300 Bangla nationals including a large number of students and young people. | The political unrest for many weeks even compelled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee from Dhaka to take shelter in neighboring India, from where she may leave to a third country which is yet to be discl…
Starmeroid Home Secretary went to anti-refugee heartland to make video pandering to racists Home Secretary Yvette Cooper last week put out a watery statement condemning the racist rioters who were trashing refugee and town centres and attacking Black and Asian people — but that doesn't mean she's not happy to pander to them and seek …
Clifton D'Rozario — There is no denying the far right has emerged as a formidable political force around the world. In India, fascism is not just being fought in the electoral arena; it is also being confronted on the streets.
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak during different political gatherings. — Reuters/FileThe ouster of Bangladesh's autocratic premier sparked celebrations in Dhaka this week but alarm in neighbouring India, which backed Sheikh…
Representational image of a Rohingya family who fled from Buthidaung, Myanmar, to Bangladesh, walk at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, June 25, 2024. — Reuters 
Relatives of the people who disappeared during the reign of Awami League, mourn as they demand justice at the Shaheed Minar, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 11, 2024. — ReutersOusted Hasina is accused of using excessive force against 
Sheikh Hasina Wajed, now ousted prime minister of Bangladesh, gestures while speaking to the media, a day after she won the 12th parliamentary elections, in Dhaka on January 8, 2024. — AFP"My mother never officially resigned," claims her son.Wazed says Hasina had planned to…
An illustration depicting Neom Stadium. — Saudi 20234 bid/Neom/File
Protesters gather at the High Court premises demanding the resignation of Obaidul Hassan, chief justice of Bangladesh in Dhaka, August 10, 2024. — ReutersAdviser to caretaker govt urges protesters to remain peacefulCentral bank Governor Abdur Rouf's resignation "not accepted".4…
There is a problem, fundamentally, in viewing the regime change in Bangladesh as a 'stand-alone' event.
The Jordanian state-owned Al-Mamlaka news TV quoted an informed source who said the kingdom would not allow using its airspace "under any circumstances to any party, and won't allow a military response for any belligerent party currently." | However, the Israeli Channel 12 reported they would, citing an informed official in Jordan's capital. | "It stems from a secu…
This is the Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Iran-backed Hamas, was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran on…
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, on November 20, 2018. — AFP
Iran's president nominates Abbas Araghchi as foreign minister | Araghchi is a seasoned diplomat and former chief nuclear negotiator, known for his openness to engaging with the West | | Abbas Araghchi removes his mask as he leaves the Grand Hotel Wien following closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna…
I appeared on Randy Credico's NY radio show today, along with Matt Hoh, Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter. Scott gave us the full dump on what happened. I was shocked to learn that the FBI showed up with copies of his emails and text messages. The FBI has been spying on Scott for years. Scott is innocent of the accusation that he is a foreign agent, but truth and facts don't matter to this politicized FBI. | I think Scott made a big mistake talking to the FBI. Scott did so because he knows he has done nothing wrong, but I reminded him of what the FBI did to General Mike Flynn and to Donald Trump. Oh yeah, they…
Iranian press review: Execution of 2022 anti-establishment protester sparks outrage | Meanwhile, expert says Iran faces challenges in retaliating against Israel, Tehran says the New York Times acts as a propaganda tool for Israel, and industries experience financial setbacks due to power shortages | 
Fighting between Six children were among the victims of intense shelling of Dahla in the eastern province of Deir Ez-zor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. | Fighting erupted on Wednesday when pro-Iranian fighters attacked Kurdish-held areas, according to the Britain-bas…
Iran is expected to import 1.2 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia per day…
Iraq's top Shia Muslim cleric Sistani also urged an end to the 
The comments come less than a month after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful and must end. | He also expressed that he opposed the formation of a sovereig…
The Lebanese government has circulated a detailed proposal to all its diplomatic missions abroad, outlining what it says is a plan aimed at achieving long-term stability in southern This initiative, which includes pledging to deploy more Lebanese army personnel through a new recruitment campaign into the border region, comes amid heightened tensions in the region and the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and Hezbollah in south Lebanon. | This proposal marks the first time the Lebanese go…
Nasser Yassin, the minister overseeing contingency planning for a wider conflict, told Reuters Lebanon would need $100 million monthly for food, shelter, healthcare and other needs in a worst-case scenario. | "A small fraction…
A US citizen told AFP he was shot by Israeli forces and wounded in the leg during a protest Friday against settlement expansion in the Palestinian medics reported that a foreign activist was shot during the demonstration in the town of Beita, while the Israeli military said he was "accidentally injured". | Th…
Israeli forces shot one Palestinian and abducted three others, on Sunday morning, in the Al-Ain refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Media sources said that the army invaded the camp on Sunday morning, sparking protests and resistance from local Palestinian youths, as soldiers fired live ammunition. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society …
The State Department said Friday it has opted against what would have been its first-ever blocking of aid to an While the US has not publicly identified the Israeli unit, it is believed to be the The unit and some o…
Rescuers in The bombardment of Al-Tabeen school and mosque drew criticism from across the Middle East and beyond alongside calls for a 
A joint statement published on Saturday by the Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners Club added that Israeli forces have arrested at leas…
Saturday dawn, Day 309 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip, the Israeli army targeted a school where dozens of families sheltered in Gaza City, killing more than 100, and wounding at least 150, largely children and women; many Palestinians were also killed and injured across the destroyed coastal enclave. …
Editors of the English-language edition of The article, which had been called "Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Israeli attack on Gaza", is now titled "Gaza genocide". | The change, reportedly made on 25 July, comes as Israel stands a…
'Zionist without qualification' sides with mass murderers again Keir Starmer has announced that the UK will be boycotting the 79th Nagasaki Nuclear Memorial anniversary in Japan — because Japan uninvited Israel, because of the occupying power's genocide in Gaza, and invited a Palestinian delegate instead. This, apparently, is so unacceptable a crime that war-happy Starmer …
Often overlooked, Israel's intentional system of economically fragmenting and dispossessing Palestinians is an essential part of its plan to ethnically cleanse the land and deny Palestinian liberation.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost That deranged speech Bibi Netanyahu delivered to a joint session of Congress last month: I cannot get it entirely out of my mind. It did not change anything — neither the Israeli prime minister nor his hosts seem to desire or intend to change anything in U.S.—Israeli relations. …
The following statement was published Aug. 9, 2024, on Resistance News Network. The axis of evil prepares for the inevitable In light of an expected operation against the Zionist entity, "israel's" allies in the region and outside of it have quickly mobilized to support it as it remains in the . . . | 
Israel bombs Gaza school whilst displaced Palestinians pray, killing at least 100 | Videos obtained by MEE showed scores of bodies strewn across the floor of the Tabin school in Gaza City after it was targeted in an early morning strike | | Palestinians search for their loved ones afte…
Israeli forces shot four citizens, including two children, on Saturday afternoon, in the town of Beit Furik, southeast of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. Media sources said that occupation forces invaded Beit Furik town and opened fire with live rounds, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades towards citizens. According to the Palestinian Red …
On Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded Kafr Al-Lubbad and Ramin towns, east of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank's northwestern part. Media sources said the soldiers invaded Kafr Al-Lubbad, before storming various neighborhoods, especially in the Al-Karaj and al-Madwara area, and around the schools, leading to protests. The sources added that the soldiers fired live …
On Saturday night, Israeli soldiers injured several Palestinians in the villages of Zabbouba and Rommana, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank's northern part. Media sources said several army vehicles invaded the two villages, and closed streets, leading to protests. The sources added that the soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas …
Israeli ministers and politicians have defended soldiers accused of raping a Writing on social media platform X, he called for an "imm…
Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man with live rounds near the village of Rummana, northwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank, on Saturday afternoon. Media sources said that occupation forces opened fire with live rounds towards a Palestinian citizen of Jenin governorate, while he was in the vicinity of the Apartheid Wall, built …
Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man with live rounds, on Saturday, in the town of Deir Ibzi' , west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank. Media sources said that Israel soldiers invaded the town of Deir Ibzi' , in the afternoon, which sparked protests among local Palestinian youths. Sources added that soldiers …
IsraelPalestineNews: Israel drops 6,000 pounds of bombs on Gaza school; US poised to send Israel $3.5 billion, including to extremist battalion; two more journalists killed; waiting for "inevitable" polio outbreak as Israel blocks vaccines; new possible war crime revealed; more displacement; water and sanitation systems in shambles; more on Israeli torture of Palestinian prisoners — …
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers shot three Palestinians near a village south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank's southern part. Media sources said the soldiers invaded an area near Beit Marsam village, west of Doura town, south of Hebron, and closed streets, leading to protests. They added that the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated …
On Saturday evening, Israeli colonizers burnt Palestinian farmlands and a car in Nil'in town, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank's central part. Local sources said the paramilitary colonizers invaded the town and stormed Palestinian farmlands around it. They added that the colonizers burnt large areas of farmlands and a Palestinian car before the …
The Palestinian Detainees' Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society said in a joint statement that Israeli soldiers abducted, in less than two days, at least 40 Palestinians, including children and former political prisoners. The statement revealed that the abductions were carried out during massive and violent invasions, especially of homes, in various parts of the …
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Organizers are canceling the Obon festival in Philadelphia this year because of weather-related reasons — but festival goers can still participate in lantern ceremonies this Sunday and next Saturday. | In Japan, families visit cemeteries and offer food to their ancestors and honor their mem…
US Democratic presidential candidate Around 15,000 people gathered at the rally in the city of Glendale, where Kamala is hoping to win to defeat Republican opponent Donald Trump. | Loud chants of "free, free Palestine" could be heard from the crowd. | "I have been clear, now is the time to…
The racist pogroms on the streets of Britain are the result of British support for genocide in Palestine and the construction of a "migrant threat".
The United States last month invited Sudan's warring sides to hold 
The environmental check-ups were completed in the first six months of 2024…
The United States has brought criminal charges against the former head of a notorious Samir Ousman Al-Sheikh, 72, oversaw severe physical abuse of inmates while head of the 
Khelif, silver medallist at the 2022 World Championships, and Taiwan boxer Lin Yu-ting have been in the spotlight as part of a gender dispute in Paris that has dominated headlin…
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura and Pizaro Gozali Idrus in Jakarta Indonesian human rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the death of a New Zealand helicopter pilot in a remote part of Papua province earlier this week. The pilot, identified as Glen Malcolm Conning, was reportedly killed by an armed group shortly…
On Monday, August 5, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina boarded a Bangladesh Air Force C-130J military transport in a hurry and fled to Hindon Air Force base, outside Delhi. Her plane was refueled and reports said that she intended to fly on either to the United Kingdom (her niece, Tulip Siddiq is a minister in 
A combination of images showing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. — APP/Reuters/FilesYunus became chief advisor of Bangladesh's interim government.Nobel laureate took oath after returning to Bangladesh from Paris. His appointment followed violent…
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reviews an honour guard at the Government House, during her visit to Thailand, in Bangkok, Thailand, April 26, 2024. — ReutersNot clear whether Sheikh Hasina will compete in elections.Hasina's Awami League party doesn't feature in interim govt.She…
Vijay Prashad reflects on the last several weeks in Bangladesh of protests and convulsions, which culminated in the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
In an article titled " "The United States has sent clear messaging to Iran that the risk of a major escalation if they do a significant retaliatory attack against Israel is extremely high," an anonymous US official told The Wall Street Journal, adding that "there is a serious…
Simplified rules of mutual travel for residents of these countries start to operate from 10 August…
The idea that the war on Gaza is essentially waged and sustained by and for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, for long, dominated political analyses on the subject. The notion is often kept alive by public opinion inside Israel. Most polls produced since the start of the Israeli genocide on Gaza suggest that an 
War on Gaza: Israel advances into Khan Younis after mediators call for ceasefire summit | US, Qatar and Egypt urge Hamas and Israel to finalise the deal on the table during a meeting scheduled for next week | | Mourners pray beside the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes at Nasser Hosp…
An The drone flew over the town of Bint Jbeil playing an audio recording that urged the residents of the town to "blame Hezbollah and [its Secretary-General] Hassan Nasrallah" for the attacks on southern…
CAIR Chicago has filed a landmark federal lawsuit against Canary Mission, the shadowy pro-Israel website that has targeted pro-Palestinian individuals with doxxing attacks for nearly a decade.
According to Minnesota activists, Governor Tim Walz canceled an agreed upon meeting with Palestinian families who have lost relatives in Gaza after learning they wanted to talk about state divestment from Israel.
A 20-year-old in Toronto is in a coma after suffering an injury while fighting for the Israeli military. His high school, which encourages enlistment in Israel, should lose its charitable status and be investigated for violating Canadian law.
I will start by redirecting you to Mark Wauck's latest post on the Scott Ritter affair and Gilbert Doctorow's screwy analysis. Mark writes: | Please note that it is NOT illegal to write articles for foreign news outlets and receive payment for your work. The fact that RT paid Ritter for his articles proves nothing—except that RT thought his articles were worth the money. A US citizen has the 1A right to express his views, including in foreign news outlets, and to receive payment for his work. This only becomes an issue if the person in question acts as an "agent" of a foreign government, working under…
The U.S. and UK ambassadors to Japan will not attend the Nagasaki atomic bomb victim memorial on August 9 due to the Nagasaki administration's decision not to invite the Israeli envoy.
Peace Park in Nagasaki. Photo from Wikimedia Commons from October 13, 2008 By News Desk / Western ambassadors to Japan announced that they would not attend an upcoming ceremony commemorating the victims of the US 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki because the city's mayor did not invite the Israeli ambassador. | This includes the ambassadors from the US, the UK, Fran…
The New York Times has always favored Israel in its editorial writings, but no Times' columnist compares to Bret Stephens, whose writings are chauvinistic and bellicose., Stephens, a former editor of the Jerusalem Post and a supporter of all Israeli policies, left the Wall Street Journal to join the Times in 2017 because he believed Israel was not getting a fair hearing in the mainstream media. In doing so, he joined other Jewish columnists at the Times (Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Paul Krugman, and Roger Cohen). However, these men brought some objectivity to America's Israel problem. Stephens has no limits in…
Israeli forces shoot US citizen in occupied West Bank | Bullet fired by an Israeli soldier ripped through the thigh of a US citizen protesting against Israeli settler encroachment | | Israeli policeman fires rubber bullets towards Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank town of Beita…
Palestinian women endure increasing violence, depression from Israeli war, survey finds | Study concludes Israel's invasion and bombing leave most women in the Gaza Strip facing tragic living conditions | | A woman sits with others gathering outside the morgue of the Aqsa Martyrs Hos…
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich faced a storm of international condemnation this week after he suggested that causing the starvation of Gaza's more than two million Palestinians "might be just and moral" until the hostages held by Hamas are released. It is unclear why the far-right minister's remarks to a conference in support of Jewish …
The ongoing Uganda-Japan (UJ) Connect project, implemented by the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is projected to generate 6,000 jobs in the Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) sector. Dr. Aminah Zawedde, Permanent Secretary of the ICT Ministry, highlighted that UJ Connect is a critical component …
Considered one of the Arab world's most prestigious musical venues, the The star of the show, however, was off-stage: veteran Lebanese choreographer The colourful show, based on the legendary female prota…
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118 more universities have joined the programme…
Inside Turkey's decision to block Instagram | Ankara was frustrated by the apparent double standards over posts about Hamas and the PKK, but it is unclear if Erdogan knew the platform would be restricted | | Many Turkish officials were blindsided by the sudden blocking of Instagram in Turkey…
Israel's war on Gaza has reached a 10 month mark with devastation in Khan Younis, with strikes on the city killing at least six people. | This morning Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that airstrikes across the enclave through the night into the morning, including an airstrike in the Gaza City's Al-Tuffah neighbourhood killing a family of three. | As Israel continues its strikes on the enclave, Hamas has announced that it has appointed the mastermind of the 7 October attacks 
genocidal assault on the Yazidis, an ethno-religious minority in northern Iraq. | At least 5,000 Yazidis were killed, and an estimated 7,000 Yazidi women and children were kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery by IS fighters. | Holya, Berivan, and Fahima — three Yazidi women from Sinjar — managed to escape the attack and are now rebuilding their lives and communities more than six years after the defeat of IS in the country. | The women work as deminers for the British demining charity 
It is beyond ironic that I am writing this on the 79th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This picture (see above) is a meme that is circulating on message boards in the US Intelligence Community (IC). The small yellow dog is Iran. The large brown dog is Israel. The consensus in the IC is that Iran is going to chicken out and not do anything too provocative in response to the recent assassination of Hezbollah and Hamas officials. | The working assumption is that Iran will follow the same script as the April barrage of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles that were in turn…
Hundreds of people answered the call of martyred Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Aug. 3 by taking over Copley Square in Boston for an emergency rally to commemorate the 300th day of Palestinian resistance to the genocidal Israeli occupying force campaign in Gaza. Demonstrators in Boston on day 300. (photo: . . . | 
Lebanon is stocking up on emergency medical supplies to prepare for " A 32-tonne shipment of emergency medical supplies was delivered to the country by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday with another shipment expected on Wedne…
Turkey joins genocide case against Israel at the ICJ after months-long delay | Ankara files intervention following a lengthy delay over legal complexities and possible counter lawsuits | | Judges leave after delivering a non-binding ruling on the legal consequences of the Israeli occupation o…
COMMENTARY: By Qadura Fares On August 3, last Saturday, prisoner rights institutions and Palestinians all around the world were standing in solidarity with Gaza and Palestininian prisoners. This day is dedicated to highlighting Israeli crimes and violations of Palestinian prisoners' rights and the continuing genocide in Gaza. The machinery of brutality that punishes and tortures…
The message, according to the sources, was delivered on Monday by Sergei Shoigu, a senior ally of the Kremlin leader, in meetings with top Iranian officials as t…
Iran is reportedly moving missile launchers and conducting military drills in possible preparation for retaliatory strikes on Israel following the A US official told Reuters that the timing and "specifics of such an attack" remain unclear, adding that it has not stopped Israel from preparing and the US from aiding in its efforts. | Biden's government was working with Israel to thwart a possible attack from Iran as it did in April…
Pro-Israel prosecutor Wesley Bell defeated incumbent Cori Bush in Missouri's 1st District primary. He got $9 million worth of help from AIPAC.
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has The report, entitled 'Welcome to Hell', details numerous cases where Palestinian detainees were subjected to acts ranging from arbitrary violence to sexual abuse. | Based on interviews with 55 Palestinians from Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, the group received testimonies from several who were detained in Israeli prisons since October 7…
A 22-year-old activist has been convicted of condoning a crime for chanting the slogan "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" at a rally in the German capital Berlin, in a move her defence team slammed as a suppression of free speech. | Ava Moayeri, a German-Iranian national, was arrested just days after Israel's war on Gaza began on 7 October after she was accused of "condoning the assault by Hamas" when she recited the chant on an 11 October protest near the Sonnenallee boulevard in the Neukà∂lln district, which the activist co-organised. | Before the trial started, Moayeri said in a statem…
Rights groups have called on the British government to urgently Over the past week, reports in the UK press emerged suggesting civil servants had suspended processing new applications for arms exports to Israel. | In a statement sent to The New Arab on Tuesday, the The Department for Business and Trade (DBT), which deals with the licenses,…
Israeli media publishes video of soldiers allegedly raping Palestinian detainee | Footage shows soldiers hiding actions behind riot shields, and is believed to be the incident that led to their arrest | | Soldiers lock a gate from the inside at Sde Teiman detention facility, after Is…
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin looks on during a joint press conference with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at Israel's Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel December 18, 2023. — Reuter
The London-based Daily Mail The reports were shared widely on social media, with some pro-Palestine activists and groups hailing the move…
A video leaked from an Israeli detention camp purportedly showing the The video, aired by Israel's Channel 12 broadcaster on Wednesday, documents Israeli soldiers allegedly sexually assaulting…
Israelis practise red heifer ritual in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque | Some religious groups believe the ashes of the cows can be used to build a third Jewish temple in Jerusalem | | Religious Israeli settlers practise the red heifer ritual in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque (X) | A group of relig…
A senior Egyptian government official denied recent allegations made by the Israeli army of the existence of "operational tunnels" under the The security official, who spoke to The New Arab on condition of anonymity for not being authorised to brief the media, said, "Tel Aviv resorted to such a political manoeuvre to save face amid the world's con…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken seen in this image. — Reuters/File ANNAPOLIS: Even as the Pentagon warned that it would not tolerate attacks against its forces in the region, the United States has communicated to Iran and Israel that conflict in the Middle East must not…
On Tuesday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man in the Atouf Medow in the occupied West Bank's Northern Plains of the Jordan Valley. Media sources said the army shot Rabea' Mohammad Daraghma (Al-'Anbousi) and left him bleeding until he succumbed to his wounds, after preventing Palestinian medics from reaching him. They added that …
In Last week, local media reported the appointment of Hassan Kaiba, a high-profile figure in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), as Tel Aviv's new rep…
In a harmonious collaboration at preserving oral history, Sami Hermez provides the space for Sireen Sawalha to tell the story of her family in The title itself reflects the fact that there is no dividing Palestine from the people and their narratives. | "What I remember most from what my mother told me, is how people were walking in the opposite direction screaming at us to turn around," Sireen reflects at th…
Gholamreza Rasaei, in his mid-thirties, is the 10th man 
The UAE warned travellers could be at risk of the "unstable security situation in various cities across the UK" with extremist riots breaking out in major cities and towns over the weekend, much of the rhetoric and vi…
On 6 August, the Algerian welterweight Khelif defeated Thailand's 2023 world silver medallist, Janjaem Suwannapheng, in a unanimous points decision, advancing to t…
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks during the annual Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany February 17, 2024. — ReutersSheikh Hasina, the former Bangladesh prime minister who fled to India on Monday, is expected to remain there for "a while" because her plans to…
Police trying to handle the situation in Great Britain. —ReutersStarmer holds emergency meeting with ministers, police chiefs."Our first duty is to ensure our communities are safe," he says. UK prime minister says more than 400 people had been arrested.
India's hawkish defence analysts inexplicably attribute former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina's ouster, following widespread student protests, to foreign interference.
A man resembling Indian cricket star Virat Kohli was spotted among charged protesters in Bangladesh, leaving people on social media in shock after a video of the bizarre sighting went viral online.In the video, the doppelganger of the 35-year-old former captain of India's national…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia waves to activists as she arrives for a rally in Dhaka in this file picture taken January 20, 2014. — Reuters
Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus speaks at the Trust Women Conference, London, Britain, December 1 2016. — ReutersTrying to hold oath-taking ceremony tomorrow, says army chief.Yunus set to lead a caretaker government after Hasina ouster."Be calm, get ready to build country," says Nobel…
UK Supreme Court refuses to hear Shamima Begum citizenship appeal | Begum's lawyers argued she was trafficked to Syria at the age of 15 | | Renu Begum, the sister of Shamima Begum, holds a photo of her sister as she makes an appeal to have her British citizenship renewed (Reuters/File photo)…
by Mohammad Nazrul Islam | Student power means setting a goal and having the communication network, the strategy, the physical numbers, and the commitment to achieve it. Now it happened again in Bangladesh's history. | On August 5, 2024, the students have demonstrated once again that a suffocating situation has ended with the fall of the dictatorial Hasina government in Bangladesh. Photo Credit to Md. Reaz Uddin. | With the students acquiring the residence of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Bangladesh has become independent again. And, the people of Bangladesh have felt free and have gone outside their homes in…
The kingdom is the leader of the Middle East and North Africa in the IT secto…
Pictures from China, Iran and Egypt will be shown at the even…
To reduce dependence on coal-fired generation, the authorities plan to increase the installed capacity of electricity from non-fossil fuel based sources…
DHAKA | Xinhua | Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus will serve as the head of Bangladesh's interim government, local media reported early Wednesday. The decision was taken at a meeting of President Mohammed Shahabuddin with chiefs of the three services and the coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement to finalize the outline of the …
By Maxim Bock, Queensland University of Technology Fiji journalist Felix Chaudhary recalls how the harassment began: "Initially, I was verbally warned to stop." "And not only warned but threatened as well. I think I was a bit 'gung-ho' at the time and I kind of took it lightly until the day I was taken to…
CPI(ML) Liberation — We congratulate the democracy-loving people of Bangladesh at this hour of victorious assertion.
Asia Pacific Report Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian political leader and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, says Israel's "gangster style assassination and extrajudicial executions" are designed to "inflame the whole region", reports Al Jazeera. The killings of the Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military commander Fuad…
In response to the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief In a condolence message to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah for the death of Hezbollah military leader 
Israel's provocative assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukr have raised the risk of a wider war in the Mideast, but the U.S. media would rather celebrate Israeli espionage than hold it to account.
Airlines are avoiding Singapore Airlines stopped flying through Iranian airspace from early on Friday morning and is u…
Palestinian group Hamas' former top leader, Ismail Haniyeh talks after meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Beirut, Lebanon June 28, 2021. — Reuters Palestinian group Hamas prepares to choose a political leader after the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in a Wednesday…
The "The health ministry announces… four Syrian nationals were martyred" in an "Israeli strike" on the southern vill…
On Saturday, Day 302 of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the besieged, destroyed, and starved Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, in various parts of the coastal enclave. The Israeli army struck many areas in Gaza, especially in several neighborhoods in Gaza …
Friends of the Congo Executive Director Maurice Carney and Professor Eman Abdelhadi discuss the intersections between the genocides in the Congo and Palestine.
The rector of St Andrews University in Scotland has been dismissed from her position and removed from her role as a trustee after she accused Stella Maris condemned the decision to remove her from the roles following an investigation commissioned by the university, adding she plans on appealin…
Kribsoo Diallo reviews African perspectives on Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, the rise and fall of Zionist influence in Africa, and the state of African grassroots solidarity with Palestine.
Picture showing a Richter scale reading — Reuters/File An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck off the eastern shore of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said.The quake was at a depth of 10 km , GFZ…
Israeli occupation forces arrested Sheikh Local sources confirmed to The New Arab's sister publication Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Israeli police raided Sheikh Sa…
The funeral of Hamas leader Mourners at the ceremony in a large mosque just north of the capi…
I am not whining. Just informing. I had a packed day, with back-to-back interviews. I started off the Ania K and then did the Judge and closed out with Nima. Three issues dominated the conversation — Israel, Ukraine and the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. | Meanwhile, the indicators of a brewing attack by Iran are flashing red. Here's a sample from the Telegram channels: | " Meanwhile, according to Axios, Israeli and American intelligence are expecting an Iranian a…
On Saturday evening, Israeli colonizers invaded the Al-Mughayyir village, northeast of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and shot a young man. Media sources said the colonizers invaded the western areas of the village and fired live rounds at the residents and their homes. They added that one Palestinian was shot with a live …
BERN, Saturday, August 3, 2024 (WAFA) — The World Council of Churches (WCC) Friday called for ending the Israeli occupation and recognition of the Palestinian people's right to self-determination. WCC general secretary Jerry Pillay reiterated that the WCC has repeatedly called for an end to the occupation; for justice, peace, and equal human rights and …
On Friday, August 2, day 301 of Israel's ongoing assault on the entire population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their unrelenting airstrikes, artillery shelling and ground invasions of civilian areas throughout Gaza.
By Ralph Nader / 
"In my case, specifically, I was given recently a one-month extension, and I was warned that would not be renewed beyond this one month," Andrea De Domenico said in a virtual news conference. | "The straw that broke the…
Two Palestinians who were abducted by Israeli forces died from torture in detention, Palestinian rights groups and Gaza authorities confirmed on Thursday. | Shujaiya refugee camp resident Islam al-Sarsawi, 42, was taken by Israeli forces to the notorious Earlier reports had indicated al-Sarsawi's death, however the statement said recent informat…
Nine killed in two Israeli strikes on Tulkarm in occupied West Bank | The Israeli army said it eliminated a Hamas commander and eight others in drone attacks | | Israeli military vehicles roll down a street in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm on 3 August 2024 (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP) | Nine peop…
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers invaded an area near the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank's northern part, leading to protests, and shot three Palestinians, including one child. Media sources said several Israeli military vehicles invaded the Al-Quds Street area, adjacent to the Balata refugee camp, leading to protests. They added …
The vehicle was driving along the Zeita-Attil road when it was hit, with all five people killed, a medical source confirmed to the news agency. | The vehicle lit up in flames after it was targeted, with Israeli forces stor…
A The paramedic has been identified as Tamer Saqr, who volunteered for the organisation. | The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that he was killed and said he was shot using live fire during an Israeli raid a week earlier in the Bal…
On Saturday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers burnt dozens of Palestinian olive trees and attacked homes in Surif town, northwest of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank's southern part. Hazem Ghneimat, the Mayor of Beit Surif, said the colonizers came from the Bat Ayin illegal colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands, northwest of Hebron. Ghneimat added …
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran by a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kg, and vowed severe revenge. | "This terrorist operation was carried out by firing a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kilograms — causing a strong explosion — from outside the accommodation area," the Guards said in a statement. | It added that Israel was "supported by the United States" in the attack. | The Guards repeated their insistence that Haniyeh would be avenged and that Israel would receive "a severe punishment at the appropriate time, place and…
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is facing criticism for using an ad featuring an altered picture of US Representative Cori Bush of Missouri which some have described as racist. | The picture in question that was sent out to constituents shows Bush, a Black woman, with a jaw and forehead that are clearly elongated from the original, prompting questions over the motivations behind the move. | Bush's campaign has responded to the controversy, saying in a public statement, "it is shameful that in 2024 our communities are still being targeted with such blatant racism from political campaigns, l…
A new The NGOs who produced joint report include B'Tselem, Peace Now, Gisha, Physicians for Human Rights, Yesh D…
The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said In the 
Malaysia held absentia funeral prayers on Thursday and Friday for assassinated Hamas political leader The prayers, held in three of the country's top national mosques, came amid official periods of mourning and prayers for the Hamas leader in Muslim-majority countries. | In attendance at the prayers held in the National Mosque of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur on Friday was Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, alongside other top officials and a congregation of around 3,000…
The BTK communications authority announced on its website on Friday that the But Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said…
"This terrorist operation was carried out by firing a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kilograms – causing a strong explosion – from outside the accommodation area," the Guards said in a statement. | It added that Israe…
Haniyeh, the head of the Palestinian group's political bureaus had resided in Doha along with other Hamas leaders. | He will be buried at a cemetery in Lusail, north of the Qatari capital, fo…
Journalist Wall Street Journal reporter Gershkovich, former 
The Information and Communication Technologies Authority, which regulates the internet, announced the decision early on Friday but did not provide a reason. | The Yeni Safak newspaper, which is close to the government, and other media said access was blocked in response to Instagram removing posts by Turkish users that expressed condolences over the…
The assassination of Hamas leader Morteza Motahari, a former Iranian member of parliament, reacting to Haniyeh's assassination, criticised Iran's intelligence services for failing to keep Haniyeh's residence secret. | "The assassination and martyrdom of the great Mujahid Ismail Haniyeh is not surprising because…
There has been an increased risk of an escalation into a broader Middle East war after the assassination of Haniyeh in Iran drew threats of ret…
Khaled Qaddoumi, the Hamas representative in Iran, has disclosed new details about the assassination of In an interview with The New Arab's sister publication Al-Araby Al-Jadeed on Friday, Qaddoumi refuted claims by the 
Nguy·ªÖn Phú Tr·ªçng, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party and Chairman of the National Assembly, died July 19, 2024, at the age of 80. Tr·ªçng was widely respected for his ideological contributions as well as his long leadership . . . | 
@soma_for_palestine / SOMA Collective for Palestine has been working in earnest to support an cease fire and an end to…
Anti-Discrimination Student Movement held a rally at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on August 3, 2024, to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide violence during anti-quota protests. — AFP
US Congressman Al Green speaks to journalists during the convention in this still taken from a video. —Geo News 
Iran arrests dozens in sweeping arrests following Hamas leader's assassination | Senior intelligence officers, military officials and staff workers are among those rounded up following Ismail Haniyeh's killing | | Iranians attend a funeral procession for the late Hamas leader Ismail…
By Syed Zubair Ahmad The treacherous assassination of Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh in Tehran has sparked a wave of propaganda, particularly among those driven by sectarian zeal. Iran, arguably the only Muslim country that officially proclaims the liberation of Al-Quds as part of its policy, is now at the center of this controversy. This stance …
Damascus, Aug 3 (Prensa Latina) Local activists were quoted by several media outlets here as saying that US troops illegally deployed in northeastern Syria recently received large reinforcements, including weapons and ammunition.
Miscarriage Rate High Among Women in Gaza appeared first on 
It was an hour before the motorcade was set to arrive in downtown Nashville, and the lady in the "Trump Save America" T-shirt was explaining why she hates Kamala Harris. "I'm not meaning to say I'm a prejudiced person," she began. Of the many ways to end such a sentence, none were promising. I assumed she would call the vice president a "DEI hire," as right-wing pundits had done all week. But she veered in a different direction. | Harris, the woman went on, believes in pushing homosexuality, transgenderism, and "people acting like cats and dogs." At her grandniece's public school in Kentucky, students identify…
On Wednesday, day 299 of Israeli forces' continuous and ongoing assault on the entire, imprisoned 2.24 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, massive Israeli bombardment of Palestinian camps for internally displaced refugees continued. On Wednesday evening, a number of civilians were killed and others were injured when Israeli occupation forces shelled the entrance to Al-Maghazi …
Negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza have been plunged into uncertainty following the latest developments in the wider conflict after Israel assassinated top militant leaders in Lebanon and Iran. | A Tuesday airstrike on Haret Hreik, a southern suburb of Beirut, targeted what Israeli media have said is "Hezbollah's second man," 
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have declared a general strike and called for "angry" demonstrations in response to the Palestinian factions condemned In a joint statement, they said Israel continued its a…
In a massive escalation against the Palestinian diplomatic effort and leadership, Israeli special forces on Wednesday assassinated the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, who had been leading the diplomatic effort on behalf of the Hamas political wing, in an extrajudicial assassination in Iran. The Hamas movement announced on Wednesday morning the assassination of its political …
In a strident speech on Wednesday evening, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah said that the fighting with Israel has "entered a new phase" that goes "beyond supporting Gaza," vowing an "inevitable" response to Israel's Beirut bombing.
Hezbollah on Wednesday mourned its top commander Shukr will be buried on Thursday and Shukr was "martyred on the road to Jerusalem", Hezbollah said…
Hezbollah said on Wednesday that senior military commander The strike, which was followed by another, hours later, which killed Hamas political leader 
The The airstrike comes as regional tensions is on the rise after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut that Israel claims killed Hezbollah's m…
The UK on Wednesday renewed its calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and de-escalation in the region following Israeli strikes which assassinated militant leaders in Lebanon and Iran. | A Tuesday drone strike near Beirut killed senior Hezbollah commander They attacks mark a major escalation in the brutal Gaza…
Mia Khalifa has again weighed in on Israel's war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon following the She also expressed outrage at the recent Mia Khalifa is a Lebanese-Am…
The That the Israeli assassination occurred in Tehran on the day of President Masoud Pezeshkian's inauguration speaks to Israel's continued ability to penetrate Iran's security apparatus. | In light of these attacks in the Lebanese…
Several concert organizers in Lebanon have announced…
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Defence Secretary John Healey arrived in Lebanon on Thursday as part of a diplomatic mission to address rising tensions in the Middle East. The visit follows an Israeli Lammy and Healey met with key Lebanese officials,…
A recent speech in support of Israeli soldiers detained for torturing and raping Palestinian detainees shows the Israeli right not only wants to escalate the ongoing genocide against Palestinians but also threatens bloodshed between Israeli Jews.
Ismail al-Ghoul had become a household name for anyone following the war on Gaza. When he went to Ismail Haniyeh's hometown to cover a commemoration of his killing, Israel assassinated him too.
By Alan MacLeod — Jul 30, 2024 | President Nicolas Maduro won a third term in office on Sunday, promising to continue and deepen Venezuela's anti-imperialist Bolivarian Revolution. Many in the U.S. quickly denounced the elections as a sham presided over by a dictatorship. | Yet the proceedings were presided over by more than 900 electoral observers from over 100 countries, including the State of Palestine. MintPress News talked to several Palestinians who observed Venezuela's elections and, in the process, uncovered tremendous and profound links of solidarity between the two nations, whose peoples and strugg…
Rula Halawani (Palestine), Untitled XII from the Negative Incursion series, 2002. On 26 July, senior United Nations (UN) officials briefed the UN Security Council about the terrible situation in Gaza. 'More than two million people in Gaza remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale', said Deputy Commissioner-General Antonia …
The following is Sahar Aziz's Facebook response to the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader in Iran: | Ten months into the war on Gaza, there is no end in sight. The Israeli military's failure is made all the more evident when the result of its campaign is setting records for killing civilians and maiming children with the use of American weapons and support, and the amount of bombs dropped equivalent to five Hiroshimas. | Beyond Gaza, Netanyahu is also unable to contain the other fronts in the war, which have caused tens of thousands of Israelis to evacuate in both the north and the south. He has been unab…
Download the version in color. Download the black & white version. WWP statement Venezuela wins! In D.C. and countrywide: Protests demand Netanyahu's arrest Boston protest: 'Netanyahu is not welcome anywhere!' Editorial Congress welcomes Israeli war criminal to Washington Our new format To our readers: Beginning in July, we changed our . . . | 
On Wednesday, an Israeli military court extended the detention of eight out of nine Israeli soldiers who have been held over what a defense lawyer said were allegations of sexual abuse of a Palestinian at Sde Teiman—a shadowy facility where Israel has held prisoners from Gaza during its genocidal war. The soldiers' detention triggered angry protests …
Overwhelming anger spread throughout Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Speaking to The New Arab, several Gazans accused the United States of directly being complicit…
Palestinians in the occupied Israeli officials have not so far claimed responsibility for the killing of Haniyeh, who had been in Tehr…
"I can't tell you what this means. I can tell you that the imperative of getting a ceasefire, the importance that that has for everyone, remains," Blinken said…
Egypt anticipates that the already contentious 
Iran has been dealt a heavy blow to its regional reputation and sovereignty by the attack which killed Details surrounding the nature of the The Haniyeh killing is both a structural and psychological blow for Iran. The s…
On Wednesday, day 299 of Israel's assault on Gaza, two renowned journalists: Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and photographer Rami al-Rifi in a direct missile strike on their press vehicle by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza City. Video clips showed the car the two colleagues were in severely damaged, with smoke rising from it …
Thursday marks day 300 of Israel's ongoing assault on the entire civilian population of the Gaza Strip (2.24 million people), and the Israeli assault continued without cease. Medical sources announced Thursday that the death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 39,480 killed, and 91,128 wounded since October 7, 2023.
Iran's Supreme Leader vowed to seek revenge against Israel for the killing of Hamas' top political leader in a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital of Tehran, risking escalating the conflict into an all-out regional war. What do you think? 
Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami al-Rifi were killed in an The journalists were wearing press vests and were inside a car when they were targeted by an Israeli drone strike near the Aidia area, west of Gaza City, according to Al Jaze…
Israel's assassination of Haniyeh was a Hamas leader for nearly two decades, becoming Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority when Hamas won elections in 2006 and leading a disputed government in Gaza following a 2007 conflict between Hamas and Fatah which ended with the former's takeover of the territory. | In 2017, Haniyeh moved to Qatar to become head of Hamas's…
Since the start of Israel's war in Gaza, thousands of Palestinians – including 
The Israeli assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh hours after It is too early to tell whether the escalation is linked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial visit to the United States and the talks he had there with officials on both sides of the aisle, but the timing is curious. | In his speech to Congress on Wednesday, July 24,…
The Israeli army has promoted a commander linked to the controversial 7 October decision to fire tank shells at homes containing Israeli captives and Hamas fighters, granting him the position of commander of the Gaza Division. | An army spokesman announced the appointment of On Tuesday, Hiram met with relatives of Israelis killed in the home of Pesi Cohen on 7 Octo…
Palestinian detainee allegedly raped in Sde Teiman returned to Israeli facility | Prominent Israeli human rights group denounces decision to place victim in a situation where he could face his abusers | | Soldiers lock a gate at Sde Teiman detention facility, after Israeli military police arrived a…
UK's St Andrews university fires rector from governing body for Israel criticism | Stella Maris removed after condemning Israel's 'genocidal attacks' on Gaza | | The investigation into Stella Maris (above) led by Morag Ross KC said she exercised 'poor judgment' but said 'firing' her would be…
The assassination of Hamas political leader Israel's top ally, the United States, has responded by denying prior knowledge or involvement in the attack likely carried out by Tel Aviv. | "This is something we were not aware of or involved in. It's very hard to speculate," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Channel News A…
A Palestinian prisoner who was The unnamed detainee has been sent to a field hospital at Israel's notorious 
"This is one of the most perilous moments in the [Middle East] region in years," says Ali Vaez, director of the International Crisis Group Iran Project, after Israel's assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday in Tehran. Iranian retaliation against Israel appears imminent. "All bets are off," warns Vaez, adding that Israel's latest maneuver will put Americans "in harm's way," as Iran will no longer hold back fellow Axis of Resistance members, especially Islamic militias in Iraq and Syria, from launching attacks on U.S. military bases i…
Unrest continues to brew in Israel after a right-wing mob including members of the Knesset broke into two Israeli military bases in an effort to prevent Israeli military police from detaining nine soldiers who were under investigation for gang raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman facility. +972 Magazine's Oren Ziv, who was at one of the bases reporting on the events, says that the support of Israeli political leaders, including some members of the Knesset who participated in the riots, and the apathy of the military police all indicate that those protesting against the soldiers' charg…
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Russian forces in Syria have been targeted by The Kyiv Post reported that Ukraine's 
Iran has raised a red flag – symbolising revenge – over the Jam Karan mosque in Qom on Wednesday morning, an indication that it is preparing a response to The flag was previously raised when Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike in 2020 and after Iranian Su…
By As planned, the people of Gaza are now dying in …
William Calley ("United States v. William L. Calley, Jr.") represented the Vietnam War as almost no one else did. During the period of his imprisonment, I recall a huge banner hung from a building in Bridgeport, Connecticut that read: "Help Free Calley." Calley died in Florida on April 28, 2024 (New York Times, July 30, 2024). 
The relations between Turkey and Greece have never been normal. The legacy of Mongol Turkish conquest of Greece in the fifteenth century poisons all connections between Turks and Greeks. The Greeks remember their Turkish oppressors like other barbarians who invaded their country. They fought hard and long to free themselves from the tyranny of the 
"Tectonic shifts are underway in global politics, economy, and other spheres of international relations. A fairer multipolar world order is being born." — Opening words of the SCO 2024 declaration, Astana, Kazakhstan. "A fairer multipolar world order is being born". Eight words that sum up what is being created at pace and yet is being 
We look at a new Washington Post investigation titled "Money War" that traces the effects of U.S. sanctions under the last four presidents: Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. According to the report, the U.S government has instituted, in some form or another, sanctions against a third of all other countries around the world, despite no clear evidence that they are effective in influencing target nations' politics, and in fact may often entrench the power of ruling parties. We speak to Jeff Stein, one of the authors of…
Pro-Khalistan Sikh leader and Sikhs For Justice General Counsel Gurpatwant Singh Pannun speaks during a protest rally. — Geo News/reporter/File In a major development, Indian and Canadian intelligence officers held multiple meetings to share information as more arrests come to…
Turkey mediates major East-West prisoner swap that frees WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich | Turkey's intelligence service said it helped broker one of largest prisoner exchanges since Cold War | | US journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, looks out from inside a glass defendants' cage prio…
Haniyeh killed by 'device planted two months ago' in Tehran guesthouse | Officials say bomb was reportedly smuggled into Iranian capital and detonated remotely, as Axis of Resistance meet to discuss possible retaliation | | An image purportedly showing the Tehran guesthouse Ismail Haniyeh was stayi…
Neom: Saudi Arabia unveils lavish stadium plans in ambitious World Cup 2034 bid | Stadiums on cliff edges and hundreds of metres above ground level are planned for a tournament that the Saudis are effectively guaranteed to host | | Neom Stadium will be built 350 metres above ground level,…
Huge spike in Saudi Arabians seeking asylum since 2013, survey finds | Saudi Arabians in the diaspora say they left due to a lack of freedom or vulnerabilities related to activism or sexual orientation | | Travellers stand in a queue at King Khaled International Airport in the capital, Riyadh…
The wedding of Indian billionaire heir Anant Ambani and pharmaceutical heiress Radhika Anant Ambani seems to be never-ending. It's not just good business sense for the Ambanis, it's also a way we are socialized into Hindutva-neoliberalism.
By Haider Abbas The Political Bureau Chief of Hamas, Palestine, Ismael Haniyeh has been assassinated in Tehran, the capital of Iran, on July 31, after he had attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran's new President Pezeshkian. The details are murky, and not letting-up, yet what has come across is that he was staying in an …
This article is part of the People's World 100th Anniversary Series. In 1968, Charlene Mitchell (1930-2022) was nominated as the Communist Party USA's candidate for President of the United States. She was the first Black woman to ever run for the presidency. Today, another Black woman—Kamala Harris—is running for president on the Democratic ticket. Trump and …
"Trump and MAGA don't speak for white men, and we won't remain silent to the peril this fascist movement poses. We can help make history by electing Kamala Harris, the first African American and South Asian woman president in November." Those sentiments reverberated throughout a Zoom call on July 29, attended by nearly 200,000 "White …
As the world moves from unipolarity to multipolarity, traditional allies of the United States are increasingly in somewhat of a dilemma as to whether or not to continue to try to function in both worlds or ditch unipolarity. Turkey is one such nation, which in recent months appears to be increasingly adopting the multipolar world. 
The inscription of Hegmataneh (Ecbatana), the ancient capital of the Median Dynasty, on the UNESCO World Heritage List has been a triumph for Iran…
Samad Hassanzadeh invited the head of the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry to visit Iran with a business delegation…
Experts note the dynamics of increasing tourist flows from the Persian Gulf countries and the Asia-Pacific region…
'Twice as good for half the respect' ANALYSIS | CLARE CORBOULD | Mainstream media are surprisingly muted at the prospect of the world's most powerful nation being led for the first time by a woman — specifically a woman of colour, Vice President Kamala Harris. Using past elections as our guide, we could have expected an …