Palestine
- Middle East
1 dead, 5 wounded in shootings near Israeli-occupied West Bank
Tel Aviv: Assailants launched several shooting attacks close to the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, June 7, killing at least one person and wounding five others, according to Israel’s rescue services. Israel’s…
- Middle East
Palestinians using makeshift toilets inside tents to preserve dignity
Khan Younis: In their bare-bones tent in southern Gaza, Mostafa Shaaban built his family’s makeshift toilet behind a curtain in a corner. He dug a shallow pit in the sandy soil, poured…
- Middle East
Slain journalist’s mother returns to Gaza after two years
Slain journalist Saleh Al Jafarwi’s mother, Mubasher, returned to Gaza on June 5, after two years of cancer treatment in Qatar, after being forced to leave the beseiged strip for medical attention.…
- Middle East
Exclusive | Broken ribs, rape, torture: Flotilla activists recall Israeli detention
Istanbul: When the activists of the Global Sumud Flotilla landed in Istanbul on May 21, many of them could not fully feel their hands. Others had fractured ribs, concussions or bruises from…
- Hollywood
Drake calls out DJ Khaled over Palestine silence, fans demand reply
Toronto: Drake’s new album ICEMAN has already started a storm, and this time the heat is not just about rap beefs or industry politics. In the track Make Them Pay, Drake appears…
- Middle East
Israel ran a 1 million dollar campaign to influence 2025 Eurovision results
Vienna: Competition starts Tuesday, May 12, at the Eurovision Song Contest, with divisions over Israel’s participation hanging over the 70th birthday of the over-the-top pop music extravaganza. Host city Vienna has been bedecked in hearts and…
- World
Mamdani’s wife apologises for ‘harmful’ social media posts she made as teen
New York: Rama Duwaji, the wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has apologised for “harmful” social media posts she made as a teenager, responding publicly after a conservative news outlet…
- World
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil’s appeal to stay in US denied
An immigration appeals board in the US has denied Mahmoud Khalil’s latest bid to dismiss his deportation case, a largely expected ruling that brings the former Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian…
- Middle East
OIC condemns Israeli law permitting execution of Palestinian prisoners
Jeddah: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a 57-member states and the second-largest intergovernmental organisation after the United Nations (UN), on Tuesday, March 31, condemned Israel’s law permitting the execution of Palestinian…
- Middle East
Gaza’s 15,000 missing cannot be found and Israel is ensuring it stays that way
An estimated 14,000 to 15,000 people are missing in Gaza with little prospect of being found either dead or alive because Israel has for years blocked the entry of the basic forensic…
- Featured News
West Asia war explodes superiority myth of Mossad, CIA, Western spy agencies
The resignation of the Director of the United States Counter Terrorism Centre, Joe Kent, who was himself a former top official of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), on March 17 exposed the…
- World
Could’ve done better: Ex-Secretary of State Blinken on US arming Israel
Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he still “grapples with the decisions” he made during the Joe Biden administration to continue arming Israel even as the human suffering in Gaza…
- Middle East
1-year-old tortured with cigarette burns: How Israel returns its prisoners
Gaza: Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers allegedly tortured a one-year-old Palestinian child in front of his father with cigarette burns to force a confession from him during interrogation. The child, identified as…
- Featured News
Eid under fire: When celebration meets the silence of grief
This year, Eid-ul-Fitr arrives not with the familiar echoes of laughter, but with a heavy silence that hangs over shattered homes and grieving hearts. The end of the holy month of Ramzan…
- Hyderabad
Yemeni, Palestinian held in Hyderabad for MDMA peddling
Hyderabad: Two foreign nationals — a Yemeni and a Palestinian — were arrested by Hyderabad Police in a joint operation with the Hyderabad Narcotic Enforcement Wing (H-NEW), with officials seizing 150 grams…
