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Taher M. El-Sonni, Permanent Representative of the State of Libya to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 2026 (IPS) A new UN report...

Hamas said any discussions on Gaza must begin with a total halt to Israeli "aggression" as Donald Trump's " Board of Peace " maps out the territory's future, with Israel insisting on the militants' disarmament before reconstruction...

Norway and the international humanitarian industrial complex Glenn Diesen is professor at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway Cross-posted from Glenn’s Substack Norwegian Crown Princess Mette Marit hanging out at Epstein’s house, years after he...

Killings, arrests, displacement and aid restrictions have continued under the ceasefire. The violence has not ended – it has been reorganised and made less visible. Refaat Ibrahim is a Palestinian writer from Gaza and the founder of The Resistant Palestinian Pens...

Spain ’s government has said that it is continuing to work towards "zero technological dependence" on Israel despite currently considering the purchase of an alternative European defence system partly owned by Tel Aviv. The centre-left government led by Prime...

On Thursday, President Trump hosted the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, a body created by Trump to oversee the security and redevelopment of Gaza. His son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is on the founding Executive Board overseeing the Board...

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has defiantly rejected calls for her to step down following a coordinated smear campaign led by pro-Israel politicians, insisting she retains "the trust of the UN Human Rights Council" and will not...

FIFA is set to spend $75 million to rebuild Gaza's football infrastructure, US President Donald Trump announced during the first meeting of his 'Board of Peace' on Thursday. Trump said that he was "pleased to announce that FIFA...

An Israeli strike in south Lebanon hit the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp on Friday, killing at least two people, according to Lebanon's health ministry. The official National News Agency (NNA) later reported "heavy strikes" in the...

Dozens of right-wing Israeli settlers crossed into Gaza overnight in a coordinated campaign openly advocating permanent Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory. The group, which included men, women and children, was led by extremist Knesset Member Limor...

US President Donald Trump's ' Board of Peace ' has committed to spending $17 billion as part of efforts to rebuild Gaza following the inaugural meeting of the board on Thursday. Trump committed $10 billion from the...

The Trump administration is set to build a military base in Gaza to house part of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) that will be deployed as part of the ceasefire deal reached last October. The base, which...

Israeli authorities have restricted Palestinian access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, allowing only a fraction of the crowds seen in previous years. Officials said no more than 10,000...

GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Strip emerged from the war burdened by extensive urban destruction, but the deeper loss was not only in stone, it was in the economy, which appeared to have been taken completely out of service. The situation is no...

By Nate BEAR Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Tech giant Apple has quietly paid nearly $2 billion for a ‘pre-speech’ tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza. And Apple has...

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Committee to Protect Journalists reveals, in an extensive international investigation, a systematic pattern of torture and ill treatment faced by Palestinian journalists inside Israeli prisons, based on consistent testimonies and medical and legal documents. The investigation concludes that...

Six members of Palestine Action were acquitted on 4 February, ending an 11-week trial and more than a year-and-a-half in prison, with one of the released activists telling The New Arab of their 16-month ordeal behind...

The term neocolonialism first appeared in the mid-twentieth century and was used to describe the continuing control of colonial powers (Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy) over other nominally independent states, especially their colonies in Africa. In the...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Approximately 80,000 Palestinians performed the first Friday prayer in Ramadan at the Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards, despite strict Israeli measures aimed at limiting access, particularly for worshippers from the West Bank. Local Jerusalem sources reported that the large...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) With the arrival of the first Friday of the month of Ramadan, Israeli occupation forces turned the city of Jerusalem into a military barracks and imposed restrictions on Palestinians’ access to Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform Friday prayer. The entrances...

Co-authored by Mufti Abdullah Nana and Dr. Shafi Lodhi Picture the last time you donated during Ramadan. Maybe you were scrolling through your phone after taraweeh , watching a video of children in Gaza searching through rubble. Or perhaps...

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was saddened to learn of the passing of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a giant of the civil rights movement in the US and a longtime champion of human rights, equality and justice around the world. Credit: United...

Independent presidential candidate Sardar Abdulla has pledged to refuse to nominate former premier Nouri al-Maliki as prime minister if elected, presenting himself as an alternative to Iraq's established political order amid increasing domestic and international...

By: Salman Rafi Shiekh - - - - Pakistan’s decision to join US President Donald Trump’s newly created “Board of Peace” is being framed in Islamabad as a humanitarian and diplomatic opportunity. Officials say the initiative is aimed at stabilising...

Pro-Palestine activism received a respite from longstanding official and unofficial repression in Britain this week with a legal order to overturn a government ban on Palestine Action, an activist organization that was banned in the summer of 2025. The High...

I was a speaker at the Palestine Action Group rally in Sydney earlier this month, when abhorrent scenes unfolded as people protested the Australian Government rolling out the red carpet to the Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Words cannot capture the outrage...

AMMAN, (PIC) Despite the announcement by the Israeli occupation authorities to end to its activities, the head of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders mission in the Palestinian territories, Philip Ribeiro, said the organization will continue its work...

Around the world, Muslims rejoice with anticipation and excitement for the blessed month. They get to wake up before dawn with lights on for suhoor, set “Ramadan goals,” deepen their relationship with the Qur’an, stand shoulder-to-shoulder in taraweeh prayers, retreat...

Americans oppose a war with Iran—and that opposition has grown since last summer. After U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in June 2025 , Quinnipiac found that the country was only narrowly against joining further attacks (51 percent to...

It’s a rainy Wednesday evening in Mayfair and we’re waiting outside the BAFTA building where a historic event is about to take place. Inside, American tech firm Palantir is holding a drinks reception for British politicians and military officials to celebrate...

A new study published in the medical journal The Lancet Global Health estimates that the death toll from Israel's war on Gaza was 50 percent higher than registered up to January 2025. The study, titled 'Violent and...

A major peer-reviewed study has found that more than 75,000 people were killed violently in Gaza in the first 16 months of the war, nearly 50 percent higher than the official toll reported at the time. The Lancet study,...

LA HABANA, Cuba — Mujeres cubanas cocinando la cena a oscuras con carbón. Las imágenes de estas escenas se han vuelto representativas del momento especialmente duro que atraviesa el país, pero también resaltan el ingenio y la capacidad de...

HAVANA — Cuban women cooking dinner in the dark with charcoal. Images of these scenes have become representative of the especially harsh period the country is going through at the moment, but they also highlight resourcefulness and resilience. “Blackouts are...