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Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:French police and May Day demonstrators violently clashed in Paris on Thursday as more than 100,000 people gathered.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says contributions have fallen sharply across the board.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:A 29-year-old man dies from gunshot wounds after Israeli raid in West Bank A 29-year-old Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli military during a raid in the town of Beita, located south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported on Thursday. Ahmad, director of the emergency and ambulance centre at the Palestine Red Crescent in Nablus, said the victim sustained a gunshot wound to the chest...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Trump national security advisor Mike Waltz nominated for UN ambassador role Submitted by MEE staff on Thu, 05/01/2025 - 17:11 Waltz was expected to become the first casualty of the second Trump administration after the group chat fiasco, but has now arguably been given a promotion US national security advisor Mike Waltz watches as US President Donald Trump signs executive orders and proclamations in the Oval Office at...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Arguments after the kidnapping in France of an Algerian government critic reopen old wounds.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:'What was our fault?β: India razes homes, sparking anger and despair in Kashmir Submitted by MEE correspondent on Thu, 05/01/2025 - 16:00 India has conducted over 1,000 house searches and raids since tourists were attacked in Pahalgam, India-administered Kashmir A woman looks on as she walks through a demolished house related to the family of Ahsan Ul Haq Sheikh, who is suspected of involvement in the Pahalgam tourist...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:'Unprecedented crisis': 100 days of human rights under Trump Submitted by Pauline Ertel on Wed, 04/30/2025 - 15:57 In just three months, the Trump administration has triggered an unprecedented crisis, rights experts say A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at centre of a US Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson,...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:A senior Qatari diplomat told the ICJ that Israel is conducting a βgenocidal war against the Palestinian people."
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Fault Lines wins in News & Documentary category while Close Up wins in Interactive & Immersive category.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Jerusalem wildfires fuelled partly by non-native trees introduced by Jewish National Fund Wildfires that ignited across the hills around Jerusalem were fuelled partly by hundreds of millions of flammable non-native Aleppo trees planted by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) to obscure or erase evidence of destroyed Palestinian villages. When Israel was established, paramilitary groups destroyed over half of the villages of...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:The US president said Waltz would instead be nominated as the US's ambassador to the UN, despite his role in Signalgate.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Al Jazeera's lowdown on the boxers, the fight night and the belts on the line in the title-unifying bout in Riyadh.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:By banning the Muslim Brotherhood to placate Trump, Jordan treads a dangerous path Submitted by David Hearst on Thu, 05/01/2025 - 17:27 The crackdown on Islamists shows Israel that the Hashemite kingdom can be bullied, clearing the way for Netanyahu's West Bank annexation drive Jordanβs King Abdullah II is pictured during a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, on 11 February...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Joseph Kabila denies charges of treason and war crimes amid escalating tensions in volatile eastern provinces.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:βI wish I could go back to how I was,β said Rashaf, a 12-year-old starving girl from Gaza.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Israelβs aid blockade is threatening Palestiniansβ existence in Gaza, UN rights chief Volker Turk warned.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:The sectarian violence involving Islamist factions, security forces and Druze gunmen is another sign of the fragile security situation.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:The foreign minister of Oman credited the delay to 'logistical reasons', but the postponement comes amid new sanctions.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Trump asked Sisi for free passage through Suez Canal, military support against Houthis: Report Submitted by MEE staff on Thu, 05/01/2025 - 17:16 Trump's private call with Sisi dovetails with US officials calling on US to extract 'economic gain' from Egypt in leaked Signal chat US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi hold a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Israeli fire and rescue services announces Jerusalem wildfires have been contained Israel's fire and rescue services announced on Thursday it has managed to contain the wildfires that had broken out in forests surrounding Jerusalem. The wildfires broke out on Wednesday, and it is estimated that approximately 5,000 acres (20,000 dunams) had been burned in what is being referred to as one of the largest wildfires in the...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:The airline has asked the Indian government for financial relief equivalent to its estimated losses.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Israeli forces are accused of targeting Palestinians collecting food for their families in Gaza.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:The budget carrier said it might cancel 330 737 Max orders due to rising costs brought on by tariffs
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Israeli settlers attack Palestinians near Nablus in the West Bank Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian residents of the village of Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to the Wafa news agency. Hafez Saleh, head of the Asira al-Qibliya Village Council, reported that the settlers, accompanied by the Israeli military, targeted Palestinian residents west of the village....
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Mohammed Khatib, who advocates for Palestinian prisoners, believes his detention was meant to silence him.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Syriaβs Druze fearful after deadly attacks on Damascus suburbs Submitted by Madeline Edwards on Thu, 05/01/2025 - 15:58 The community's religious leader has called on international intervention to prevent more bloodshed A boy checks a destroyed car following sectarian clashes in Ashrafiyat Sahnaya near Damascus on 1 May (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP) Off Rami lived through more than a decade of war in Syria, yet had never...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Israeli settlers destroy Palestinian man's agricultural equipment in Jordan Valley Israeli settlers destroyed solar panels and water pumps belonging to a Palestinian resident of Khirbet al-Deir, a hamlet in the Jordan Valley in the northeast of the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported on Thursday. Local human rights activist Aref Daraghmeh reported that the settlers damaged the solar energy panels and water...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Wildfires ravage Israel as politicians scramble to assign blame Submitted by Mera Aladam on Thu, 05/01/2025 - 12:43 Officials trade accusations as public outrage grows over governmentβs response An Israeli security member stands as wildfires caused by extreme heat and winds break out, 30 April 2025 (Reuters/Oren Ben Hakoon) Off Israeli firefighters continued battling widespread wildfires for a second consecutive day in...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:The US is pivoting back to fossil fuels, China is ramping up renewables, while Europe is trying to catch up.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Informal trade between India and Pakistan is much higher than official figures say - but can it survive new hostilities?
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Israeli attack kills two in Gaza City, including child An Israeli drone attack has killed two people in Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera. A child was among the victims of the attack on the Shujaiya district.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:The US and Ukraine have signed a long-touted deal that will give the US access to Ukraineβs precious minerals.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Two months of Israelβs aid blockade on Gaza have taken a devastating toll on Palestinians especially children.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Amnesty: Israel committing 'livestreamed genocide' in Gaza Submitted by Mera Aladam on Thu, 05/01/2025 - 10:35 Annual report warns of the infiltration of authoritarian practices and crackdown on dissent globally A Palestinian woman holds the body of her child, killed in Israeli strikes, at the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia, north Gaza on 28 April 2025 (Reuters/Mahmoud Issa) Off Amnesty International has described...
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