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Iranian president sacks deputy for 'lavish' Antarctic cruise

President says trip by Shahram Dabiri, the vice-president for parliamentary affairs, was "indefensible" while Iran's economy suffers.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: BBC Middle East favicon BBC Middle East

Demonstrators rally across Spain to protest against housing crisis

Demonstrators have returned to the streets in anger over high housing costs with no relief in sight.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Palestinian paramedic describes Israeli attack that killed 15 colleagues

Palestinian paramedic describes Israeli attack that killed 15 colleagues A Palestinian paramedic who witnessed an Israeli attack that killed 15 of his colleagues says soldiers fired directly at emergency vehicles, leaving them riddled with bullets and stained with blood. Munther Abed, a volunteer with the Palestine Red Crescent, had been responding to an emergency call near Rafah in southern Gaza on March 23 when...

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Iran currency falls to record low against dollar as tensions with US mount

As traders opened on Saturday, the exchange rate fell to 1,043,000 rials to the dollar.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Israel's killing of Gaza aid workers 'almost certainly a war crime', says ex-UN official

Israel's killing of Gaza aid workers 'almost certainly a war crime', says ex-UN official Martin Griffiths, the former UN humanitarian chief and current executive director of Mediation Group International, has condemned Israel’s killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza as β€œalmost certainly a war crime”. β€œIt’s almost inhuman,” he told Al Jazeera in a rebuke. β€œI don’t understand the culture within the [Israeli military] and...

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Germany's support for Israel's far-right alliance shatters its 'denazified' facade

Germany's support for Israel's far-right alliance shatters its 'denazified' facade Submitted by Esad Širbegović on Thu, 03/20/2025 - 10:06 The 'liberal democratic' state's claim to have reckoned with its racial supremacist past is fraudulent, proven by decades of supporting fascist regimes The Brandenburg Gate is illuminated with messages during a February 2025 memorial in Berlin for Israeli hostages killed during the...

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

AI and doxxing sites: Trump vs antiwar activists

The US administration’s unlawful revoking of student visas for voicing opposition against Israel’s genocide on Gaza.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Video casts doubt on Israeli account of Gaza medic killings

The video was published by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), which said it was obtained from the phone of a paramedic who was killed.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: BBC Middle East favicon BBC Middle East

UN says 100 children killed or injured in Gaza every day since war resumed

Palestinian and UN bodies mark Palestine Children's Day with 'harrowing' accounts of toll of Israel's war on children.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Day's death toll rises to 27 as six more killed in Israeli attack on Khan Younis

Day's death toll rises to 27 as six more killed in Israeli attack on Khan Younis Six Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attackin the Qizan Abu Rashwan neighbourhood in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The deaths bring the death toll since dawn to 27, according to medical sources.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

β€˜Unprecedented’: Video shows last moments of Gaza medics killed by Israel

Video discovered on mobile phone of one of the victims reveals the details of an Israeli attack that killed 15 people.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

The world β€œwill form united front” against tariffs

China will trade with multiple partners to weather the tariff storm better than the US, says policy expert Huiyao Wang.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Iconic Malian musician Amadou Bagayoko dies at 70

Bagayoko part of blind duo Amadou and Mariam, was among Africa's best-selling and beloved music industry performers.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Thousands hit the streets for South Korea’s impeached ex-president Yoon

Constitutional Court unanimously ruled to remove President Yoon Suk-yeol over his bungled martial law declaration.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Myanmar earthquake death toll passes 3,300 as UN calls for help

UN aid chief says the world 'must rally behind the people of Myanmar' after a magnitude 7.7 quake flattened buildings.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

The UK’s β€˜grooming gang’ scandal is about race, class and misogyny

The victims were considered disposable – not only by the perpetrators but also by those who were supposed to help them.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

India’s Modi visits Sri Lanka to shore up defence and energy ties

Indian PM is first foreign dignitary to visit island since leftist Anura Kumara Dissanayake swept elections last year.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Trump’s 10 percent tariff takes effect, raising fears of global trade war

Initial 'baseline' tariff comes into effect at US seaports, airports and customs warehouses as stock markets plummet.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupt Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event

Reports say AI models from Microsoft were used as part of Israeli military programme to select bombing targets in Gaza.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

More than 500 firms sign brief in support of Trump-targeted law office

The law firm Perkins Coie is fighting an executive order from Donald Trump limiting its access to federal buildings.

Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Pentagon confirms four-star general’s firing amid Trump security purge

US President Donald Trump acknowledged he has taken advice from a far-right media personality about who to fire.

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Judge rules Trump must return to US man wrongly deported to El Salvador

Judge describes deportation of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia as an 'illegal act'.

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

What are the implications of the US-China tariffs war?

Beijing hits back with its own set of tariffs on all US goods after Trump's latest levies.

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Israeli air strikes target Rafah, Gaza City

Israeli air strikes target Rafah, Gaza City Local media is reporting that Israeli air strikes have picked up again just after midnight on Saturday in Gaza. Gaza City in the north and Rafah in the south are both being targeted.

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Global markets swoon as Trump heads to the golf course

Markets tumbled in Wall Street's worst crisis since pandemic as investors fled after China retaliated against tariffs.

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

US stock markets continue slump as China hits back on Trump tariffs

Top indices see worst two-day stretch since COVID pandemic, as Fed chair warns of increased inflation and unemployment.

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Cost of bombing Yemen for three weeks to hit $1bn: Report

Cost of bombing Yemen for three weeks to hit $1bn: Report CNN, citing US officials on Friday, said the cost of the US war on Yemen since 15 March is about to hit the $1bn mark - and it hasn't even had that much impact. Members of the Trump administration cabinet had disclosed in a leaked group chat last month that one senior-ranking member of the Houthis was killed when the US bombed an entire apartment building....

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Ukraine says children among 18 killed in Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih

At least 50 people have been wounded in ballistic missile attack on residential area, local authorities say.

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Will Trump's tariffs make the Middle East's struggling economies competitive?

Will Trump's tariffs make the Middle East's struggling economies competitive? Submitted by Sean Mathews on Fri, 04/04/2025 - 20:16 Jordan and Egypt struggle to compete with manufacturers in Southeast Asia. Trump's topsy-turvy tariff world just make them more competitive, experts say Bags are fabricated from cloth at the Malaika linens factory in the 6th of October industrial zone, southwest of Egypt's capital, Cairo,...

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Brown University could become fifth university to lose federal funding

Brown University could become fifth university to lose federal funding Submitted by Syma Mohammed on Fri, 04/04/2025 - 18:29 All the schools that have had their federal funding slashed so far are Ivy League institutions Students and community members hold a pro-Palestine rally at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on 29 April 2024 (Joseph Prezioso/AFP) Off The Trump administration is reportedly targeting a...

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

Israeli military says it killed senior member of Mujahideen Brigades in Gaza

Israeli military says it killed senior member of Mujahideen Brigades in Gaza The Israeli military, in conjunction with the Shin Bet, the domestic spy agency, said on Friday that it killed Mohammad Awad, a senior member of the Mujahideen Brigades in Gaza. Israel had accused Awad of crossing intoKibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October 2023 and being "apparently involved in the kidnapping and murder of Sheri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas",...

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye

US Federal Reserve warns of inflation, unemployment from Trump tariffs

The US now faces a higher risk of inflation and increased unemployment because of Trump’s global tariffs, warns the Fed.

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Barcelona vs Real Betis: LaLiga – team news, kickoff, how to follow, stream

Al Jazeera's preview as Barcelona attempt to move six points clear in LaLiga when they face Real Betis on Saturday.

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Trump again extends deadline for TikTok sale to avoid US ban

President Donald Trump pauses enforcement of law requiring Bytedance to divest from TikTok or face ban in the US.

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Al Jazeera Middle East favicon Al Jazeera Middle East

Scale of West Bank displacement 'unprecedented', Unrwa says

Scale of West Bank displacement 'unprecedented', Unrwa says The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, on Friday said the scale of the displacement caused by the Israeli assault on parts of the West Bank is "unprecedented since the 1967 war", when Israel occupied the area in contravention of international law. "It has resulted in systematic destruction, forced displacement, and demolition orders affecting...

Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source: Middle East Eye favicon Middle East Eye