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Tunisia opposition figures get lengthy prison terms in mass trial Submitted by MEE staff on Sat, 04/19/2025 - 12:48 Prominent activists, lawyers and businesspeople given sentences ranging from 13 to 66 years in unprecedented court case Chaima Issa (C), Tunisian journalist, human rights defender and member of the main opposition coalition, reacts in front of the courthouse in Tunis, 11 April 2025 (AFP) Off A Tunisian...
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Foreign Ministry calls on international community to deal with 'incitement' to destroy the holy site seriously.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Deadly clashes between nomads and farmers have multiplied recently in the Benue and Plateau states.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Why Gaza genocide is strongest case before the ICJ What can more than 100 years of the international justice system tell us about its present and future? World leading scholar of international criminal law and genocide, Professor William Schabas, speaks to Middle East Eye's Expert Witness. Schabas reflects on the challenges facing international law after Israel began itswar on Gaza in 2023 and why it is guilty of...
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Government says on 'maximum alert' due to bid by rivals to kill re-elected president.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Trump takes on the US's enemies and friends - ferocious tariff wars with China and scathing rhetoric on Canada.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Gaza death toll reaches 51,157 The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli forces have killed 92 people and wounded 219 others over the past 48 hours. The death toll in Gaza now stands at 51,157, with 116,724 others wounded and thousands who remain missing.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Israeli strikes kill dozens of Palestinians across Gaza Submitted by MEE staff on Sat, 04/19/2025 - 10:56 The Israeli army has intensified its attacks since Friday, targeting homes and tent camps A Palestinian woman mourns near the bodies of her relatives, killed in an Israeli strike, at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia on 17 April 2025 (AFP) Off At least 70 Palestinians have been killed in their homes and tents...
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:These are the key events on day 1,150 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Fears about unpredictable policy are prompting investors to question their faith in the US dollar.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Dozens of defendants found guilty of "conspiracy against state security" and given sentences of 13 to 66 years.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Aftershocks of Myanmar's devastating earthquake add new dimension to country's four-year-long civil war.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Block on removal of migrants sets up possibility of another challenge by Trump administration to power of the courts.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:The humanoid robots were no match for human rivals as they made their half-marathon debut in the Chinese capital.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:A hole-in-the-wall tea shop in West Bengal founded by a freedom fighter is run by customers when the owner’s out.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:The US says the attack on the Red Sea coast aimed to restrict supplies and funds for the Houthis, who called it a war crime.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:Court says detained pro-Palestine student has shown 'significant evidence' violations to her constitutional rights.
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:The BBC joins a GP in Gaza as she sees dozens of patients, struggling to treat them with a dwindling supply of drugs.
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Israeli air raid kills one and injures 15 children in Khan Younis strike An Israeli air strike on the Abu Shamala family home in Khan Younis has killed one person and left 20 others injured, including 15 children, according to local reports. Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli assaults across Gaza since sunrise on Friday has risen to at least 58. Residential areas...
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:All captives will be released from Gaza if Israel agrees to end war, Hamas says The head of theHamaspolitical bureau, Khalil al-Hayya, said on Thursday that all remaining captives will be released fromGazaifIsraelends its war on the enclave. Hamas, he said, is ready for “comprehensive package negotiations, including the release of all Israeli captives in exchange for an agreed number of Palestinian prisoners, the...
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:A poignant image of a nine-year-old amputee from Gaza is the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year.
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Palestinian Christians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank are holding temperate gatherings leading up to Easter.
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Red Cross rushes aid to Yemen after deadly US strike on Ras Isa The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is urgently assisting health facilities in Yemen following US air strikes on the Ras Isa oil port that left at least 80 people dead. In a statement, the ICRC confirmed it had dispatched medical teams to treat the wounded and supplied body bags to ensure the dead are handled with dignity. It urged “all...
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Chinese president visits three Southeast Asian nations amid global uncertainty.
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:British MPs confronted by Israeli settlers during visit to Palestinian territories Submitted by Imran Mulla on Fri, 04/18/2025 - 14:33 Shockat Adam and Andrew George were swarmed by armed settlers when visiting Masafer Yatta and witnessed hundreds of settlers storm Al-Aqsa complex British MP Shockat Adam toured Hebron, Bethlehem and East Jerusalem in the occupied Palestinian territories (Supplied) Off Two British MPs...
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:US revokes around 1,500 student visas, universities say they weren't notified Submitted by Syma Mohammed on Fri, 04/18/2025 - 20:57 Three universities Middle East Eye spoke to said they only found out after checking the student record database Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said Washington would take away any visa that has previously been issued if students participated in social activism (Julien de Rosa/Reuters)...
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Turkish speaker condemns Israel, calls Gaza assault ‘modern-day genocide’ Turkey’s parliament speaker, Numan Kurtulmus, denounced Israel’s war on Gaza on Friday, describing it as “a genocide unlike anything modern times have seen”. “We are witnessing the systematic destruction of an entire people, and the world is largely silent,” Kurtulmus said, saying Gaza does not belong to any one power. He added that despite the...
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:International Committee for Solidarity with Rached Ghannouchi decries ‘repressive campaign’ against Ennahdha party head.
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:US warplanes bomb multiple areas in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa Houthi-aligned broadcaster al-Masirah reported on Friday that US air raids have hit several locations in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. According to the outlet, warplanes struck the al-Hafa area in al-Sabeen district, with additional attacks targeting Bani Hashish district in Sanaa governorate, which was hit with four separate strikes.
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:ITV documentary 'Our Land' lays bare the fanaticism of the Israeli settler movement AnIsraelisettler polishes his gun. “ThePalestiniansavages around here, they have no mercy, no law, nothing,” he says coolly. “Just blood and blood, like you see in the movies." The settler, introduced to television viewers as Yair, has a beard and a ponytail, and speaks fluent English. He is one of the most prominent figures featured in...
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Barcelona's challenge for a quadruple this season could be hampered by the schedule as Celta Vigo provide latest test.
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Ukraine has agreed to a full temporary ceasefire and accused Russia of stalling on a truce agreement.
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:WFP warns Gaza faces famine risk as food supplies run out The World Food Programme has sounded the alarm over Gaza’s deepening hunger crisis, warning that hundreds of thousands are on the brink of starvation. In a post on X on Friday, the agency said: “Two million people in Gaza, most of them displaced and without income, rely entirely on food assistance.” “With supplies nearly gone and border crossings still sealed,...
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:What does Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case say about the future of immigration under Trump?
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:European diplomats show rare solidarity with Palestinians after Israeli settler attacks in West Bank The British consulate in Jerusalem has shared a thread on X, revealing that diplomats from several European countries - including Belgium, France, Spain, and Germany - visited Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank following a wave of Israeli settler violence. According to the consulate, the attacks involved...
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