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Hamas says it is weighing Witkoff proposal with other Palestinian factions Hamas said on Friday it was mulling a phased ceasefire proposal sent by US envoy Steve Witkoff with other Palestinian factions. Hamas has demanded a permanent end to Israel's war on Gaza in return for releasing captives, but according to reports, the US proposal does not guarantee a permanent end to fighting. A January ceasefire backed by the US...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:President Trump seeks to triple the daily number of arrests of undocumented immigrants. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court approved an emergency request from the Department of Homeland Security to end temporary legal protection for 532,000 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti. RELATED: Venezuela Rejects U.S. Supreme Court Decision to Strip TPS from Venezuelan [β¦]
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:During a three-hour televised interview earlier in May, Macron said Europe should consider sanctioning Israel over the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands are thought to be now facing starvation.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Gaza is βthe hungriest place on Earth,β the UN says, warning all residents are now at risk of famine.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let President Donald Trump's administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States, bolstering the Republican president's drive to step up deportations.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the commitment shown by the Organizationβs Member States which, during nearly two weeks of meetings, adopted historic measures to make the world safer and healthier.The landmark adoptions of the first global agreement to make the world safer from future pandemics and increase in financial support to the World Health Organization were the highlights of the...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Switzerland is a success story in predicting landslides β but more must be done to help the rest of the world prepare for these deadly, unpredictable disasters.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:A U.S. woman is suing seven oil and gas companies, saying they contributed to an extraordinarily hot day that led to her mother's fatal hyperthermia during a heat dome event that also killed more than 600 people in B.C.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:The pop star said she purchased her catalog of recordings β originally released through Big Machine Records β from their most recent owner, the private equity firm Shamrock Capital. She did not disclose the amount.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Hamas's armed wing says it attacked Israeli soldiers in Gaza with anti-personnel grenade Hamas's armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said on Friday that it had carried out a joint military operation against Israeli forces with the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the al-Quds Brigades. The group said it fired an anti-personnel grenade at a building housing Israeli troops southeast of Khan Younis in southern...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:The conversation will be direct βas it should be in order to move toward a genuine understanding,β she said. On Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed that there will be no international mediators involved in the June 2 talks between Russia and Ukraine scheduled to take place in Istanbul. RELATED: Russia Delivers 100 [β¦]
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Campaigners want the president-elect of the African Development Bank to shift away from all fossil fuels, but its energy policy signals more support for gas The post Green groups push back on fossil gas funding as AfDB welcomes new head appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Campaigners want the new head of the African Development Bank to shift away from all fossil fuels, but the bank's energy policy seems to have no end in sight for such funding The post Civil society groups push back on fossil gas funding as AfDB welcomes new president appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:The heavy rains lasted for several hours Thursday, and media reports quoting local government officials said a dam collapse in a nearby town had worsened the situation. The flooding displaced large amounts of people, the reports said.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:UN says 100 percent of Palestinians in Gaza at risk of famine The UN said on Friday that 100 percent of Gaza is at risk of famine. "Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth," Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency United Nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, said on Friday. "It's the only defined area - a country or defined territory within a country - where you have the entire...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Rafal Trzaskowski or Karol Nawrocki? To many Polish voters, the question isn't about who they want, but who they don't want to see in office.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Israel says France's Macron on 'crusade against the Jewish state' In an escalation of its rhetoric against President Emmanuel Macron, Israel's foreign ministry said the leader of France of was on a "crusade against the Jewish state". The criticism came before Macron threatened sanctions against Israel if it does not act to prevent starvation in Gaza. Macron had warned earlier on Friday that he could βapply sanctionsβ...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:[InfoWire] United Capital Group, Nigeria's leading investment banking and financial services institution, has taken a major step in its Pan-African expansion, with the official launch of its West Africa office, United Capital Asset Management West Africa Limited, in Abidjan, CΓ΄te d'Ivoire.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:The campaign period for judicial candidates began March 30 and concluded May 28. On Sunday, nearly 98 million Mexicans will head to the polls to elect 881 judges and 1,800 positions within local judicial branches. RELATED: New Cases of Myiasis by Worm in Humans in Southern Mexico The campaign period for judicial candidates began March [β¦]
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:[Ghanaian Times] The inadequacy in food labelling has for some time now become topical as health experts have indicated that it is silently undermining public health and threatening to worsen the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Trump initially vowed to block the Japanese steelmaker's bid to buy Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel. But he changed course and announced an agreement last week for what he described as "partial ownership" by Nippon.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Poll: 82 percent of Israelis favour expelling Palestinians from Gaza A new poll found that 82 percent of Israeli Jews support the forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, while an additional 56 percent support expelling Palestinian citizens of Israel. The poll was done at Pennsylvania State University and conducted by Tamir Sorek for the Israeli polling firm Geocartography Knowledge Group, Haaretz reported on...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:[Ghanaian Times] Ghana put up an impressive second-half performance but fell to Nigeria 2-1 in the semifinal of the 2025 Unity Cup.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:La RΓ©union embodies Franceβs enduring presence in the Indian Ocean and its ambition to project influence across the wider Indo-Pacific region.
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Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Saudi women held in 'hellish' secretive care homes, finds report Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 05/30/2025 - 16:09 The Guardian collects testimonies from facilities where women are beaten and banned from contact with the outside world A Saudi woman is pictured attempting to escape from a 'care home' in September 2013 in the Tabuk province of northwestern Saudi Arabia (Screengrab) Off Hundreds of Saudi women are being...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Latest warning on starving population comes as Hamas considers ceasefire proposal
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:At least 14 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes on Khan Younis At least 14 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on eastern Khan Younis, according to Al Jazeera. The Israeli strike targeted tents in the southern Gaza city.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Rustam Emomali is also the chair of Tajikistanβs National Assembly and the son of the country's president. His recent trip to Moscow is stirring talk, once again, of dynastic transition.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Doctors Without Borders says US-Israeli effort for Gaza aid feigns compliance with international law Doctors Without Borders has slammed the US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as "a cynical ploy to feign compliance with international humanitarian lawβ by giving some aid to starving Palestinians. βThrough this dangerous and reckless approach, food is not being distributed where itβs needed most but is instead...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:The paramilitary group's drone attack on a hospital in the city of El-Obeid resulted in 6 people killed. According to the UN, the conflict in Sudan has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Southeast Asian countries heavily prioritize economics and trade, yet U.S. government policies toward ASEAN have often targeted countering China first.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:The βcoalition of the willingβ sounds impressive but remains paper thin
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:UK universities will be ramping up efforts to attract Chinese students via initiatives and financial incentives as the U.S. revokes visas.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:As John Pesutto scrambles to raise funds to pay $2.3m owed to Moira Deeming, the saga threatens to βengulf the entire partyβ, including its new leaderGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt was meant to be the Victorian Liberalsβ week. Instead, the party β now almost synonymous with political self-sabotage β has imploded once again.And itβs likely only going to get worse from here as the countdown...
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