Israeli settlers vandalized and spray painted racist, anti-Arab slogans, on a local mosque, on Monday, in the Deir Dibwan village, east of the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah. Mansour Mansour, the mayor of the Deir Dibwan, said that Israeli settlers stormed the village and spray painted racist, anti-Arab[…]
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at the United States for not taking a tougher position against Saudi Arabia over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, as he demanded answers from the kingdom over the journalist’s killing. “I cannot understand America’s silence when such a horrific attack took place,[…]
Israel has said the work to strengthen its fence along the Gaza Strip entered a new phase with construction starting on a massive new barrier along the frontier. “Over the weekend we began building the above-ground barrier along the Gaza border,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told journalists on Sunday before[…]
Egyptian lawmakers on Sunday proposed constitutional changes that would allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi tostay in power until 2034, legislators said. The bill calls for several amendments to the constitution, including on the duration of presidential mandates currently limited to two four-year terms, AFP said. Constitutional changes could take months[…]
Israeli authorities have shot and killed three Palestinians and demolished 20 Palestinian-owned buildings in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem between January 15-28th, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory said in its latest report. The OCHA report said that[…]
Iran announced the “successful test” of a new cruise missile with a range of over 1,350 kilometres during celebrations marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, state television reported. “The test of the Hoveizeh cruise missile was carried out successfully at a range of 1,200km and accurately hit the set[…]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered the conditional release of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo after he was cleared of charges of crimes against humanity last month. Judges agreed on Friday to release the 73-year-old former strongman and his aide Charles Ble Goude on condition that they live in an as-yet-unspecified country[…]
The Myanmar government under Aung San Suu Kyi has continued using oppressive, military rule-era laws to prosecute peaceful critics, quashing hopes the country’s first democratic leader in decades would safeguard free speech, according to a damning new report by a prominent rights group. Freedom of expression has been worsening since[…]
Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido presented the opposition’s broad vision for the country’s future on Thursday, as the political crisis in the country deepened. “We have a plan, well thought out, structured,” Guaido said at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences in the Central University of Venezuela on[…]
Lebanon’s presidency on Thursday announced the formation of a new national unity government, ending months of political wrangling amid concerns over the country’s struggling economy. The news comes after more than eight months of deadlock as politicians from rival Lebanese factions could not agree on the make-up of the cabinet[…]
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