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NewsFeed“For every country that unilaterally recognizes a Palestinian state, we will establish a settlement.” Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says the cabinet approved his plan to legalise five controversial settlements in the occupied West Bank in retaliation for Palestinian diplomatic moves.Published On 28 Jun 202428 Jun 2024 Source link

Algerian resistance fighters wrote heartfelt letters home in the 1950s. Few arrived but many remained unseen, until now.Algeria lived under French colonial rule for 132 years, from 1830 to 1962. Letters and correspondence provided evidence of Algeria’s long struggle to end French colonial rule in the 1950s. They enabled resistance fighters to send news to their families back home. Also, they offered a means for Algeria’s nationalist political party, the FLN or National Liberation Front, to communicate secretly with its people on the ground. In 2011, historian Malika El Korso discovered a handwritten letter in a French archive. In it,…

Tensions between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah seem to be escalating as Israel’s war on Gaza nears nine months. Since October 8, when Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people, Israel has attacked it nearly four times as much, with more than 6,000 attacks along the 120km (75-mile) border. Hezbollah, which was formed in 1982 to fight Israel’s invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon, says it will stop attacking Israel if its assault on Gaza stops. In 2006, the group fought a 34-day war widely regarded as a strategic and military failure for Israel and its…

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NewsFeedDonald Trump accused US President Joe Biden of being soft on Hamas and Biden defended his support for Israel during the first presidential debate of this year’s election campaign.Published On 28 Jun 202428 Jun 2024 Source link

Voters will head to polling booths across Mauritania on June 29, in elections set to be a litmus test for the northeast African country’s young and fragile democracy. A vast but sparsely populated desert country with some 4.5 million people, Mauritania has long been beset by coups and military rule. The country has been under military dictatorship for nearly all of its 64 years since gaining independence from France in 1960. Its first peaceful power transfer came in 2019, when then-incumbent President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz chose not to run for a third term. The country is surrounded by neighbours…

Both candidates fail to address Palestinian suffering, toll of Israel’s war on Gaza as protesters rally near venue.Republican Donald Trump has called US President Joe Biden “a very bad Palestinian” who doesn’t want to help Israel “finish the job” against Hamas in its war on Gaza. “He doesn’t want to do it. He’s become like a Palestinian – but they don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian, he’s a weak one,” former president Trump said in the first presidential debate with Biden on Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia. Ayah Ziyadeh, director of American Muslims for Palestine, told Al Jazeera…

Four candidates are in the race to succeed Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in May.Iranians are voting for a new president following the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, choosing from a tightly controlled group of four candidates loyal to the supreme leader at a time of growing public frustration. Polls opened at 8am (04:30 GMT) on Friday and are scheduled to close at 6pm (14:30 GMT), but the time can be extended until midnight. The snap election coincides with escalating regional tensions due to the current war between Israel and Iranian ally Hamas in…

NewsFeedVideo shows explosions targeting Israeli forces during their latest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. One Israeli soldier was killed and several others injured.Published On 27 Jun 202427 Jun 2024 Source link

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