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Israeli forces fatally shot a 15-year-old Palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence surges in the Israeli-occupied territory. "The child Amir Ahmad Jawad Jaber, 15 years old,...

MENA

Truthdig received 13 Southern California Journalism Awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, which were announced on June 28. These awards include three first-place, three second-place and seven third-place prizes across a wide variety of categories. “We’re honored to be recognized...

Ear to the Ground, Media, News

The long and winding road That leads to your door Will never disappear. I’ve seen that road before. It always leads me here. Lead me to your door. – The Beatles Steelhead. Seafaring rainbow trout. Anadromous oncorhynchus mykiss. Steelhead are...

China, Block 2, China higher education

JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Jerusalem Governorate has condemned the fatal shooting of 15‑year‑old Amir Ahmad Jawad Jaber by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in al‑Bireh City today, calling the incident “part of the ongoing pattern of daily killings and extrajudicial executions targeting...

News, Extrajudicial killings, Israeli crimes

UN chief Antonio Guterres has condemned the "relentless" expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank , saying in a report seen Monday by AFP they are contributing to the territory's worst displacement crisis since 1967. The...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army has committed 3,465 ceasefire violations in the Gaza Strip since the truce took effect 260 days ago, according to the Government Media Office (GMO). In a report released on Monday, GMO explained that these Israeli violations...

News, Gaza Strip, GMO

Israeli forces are killing Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank at the highest rate since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, according to a new report by Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem. In its...

MENA

Welcome to our new live page, where we're continuing to track developments in the Middle East. You can track developments earlier today by visiting our previous live blog here . Here are the key updates on Monday: • President Trump...

MENA

Welcome to our new live page, where we're continuing to track developments in the Middle East. You can track developments earlier today by visiting our previous live blog here . Here are the key updates on Monday: • Iran's foreign...

MENA

Data has shown a dramatic reduction in commodity vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend following an exchange of fire between the US and Iran, in violation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the...

MENA

Wherever American human rights activist Medea Benjamin goes, she receives an unusually warm welcome. One of the main reasons is that she has become a target of US President Donald Trump and his supporters because of her opposition...

World

By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Jun 29 2026 (IPS) On the night of 29 June 1976, just before midnight, I stood among my fellow Seychellois at the heart of a moment that would change our history forever. James Alix Michel We...

Africa, Climate Action, Climate Change

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has said that the Israeli occupation army persists in targeting Palestinian students in the West Bank, saying that four high school students were recently kidnaped while in the middle of taking their final exams. In...

News, Detained students, Israeli violations

The Iraqi Olympic Committee said on Monday it will launch an investigation into the national team's disappointing World Cup campaign and outline measures to prevent a repeat of such poor results in future tournaments. Iraq's first appearance...

Sports

The U.S. is in the midst of an acute mental health crisis . In late May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 19% of adults have been told by a physician or therapist that...

Business & Economy, Health & Wellness, News

The Iran war has laid bare a simple truth about American power: Washington is burning through million‑dollar missiles to shoot down drones that cost a fraction of that – and it can’t afford to fight this way indefinitely. Now...

In-depth

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has defended its approach to determining who qualifies as a journalist, telling The New Arab it has no plans to change its definition following criticism over the removal of Palestinian...

MENA

JD Vance said on Friday that the U.S. wins “either way” in negotiations with Iran. “If we make the final deal, then great,” Vance told HBO’s Bill Maher. “If we don’t make the final deal, their nuclear program...

Column, Courts & Law, Immigration

The Lebanese army said its chief and a senior US military commander discussed on Monday implementing a US-Lebanon-Israel agreement signed last week that aims to halt hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon's Rodolphe Haykal received Admiral Brad Cooper, the...

MENA

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . France has been preparing for climate-fueled heat waves for more than two decades. In 2003, more than 14,800 people died as...

Environment, Europe, Health & Wellness

- - - - Photo by James Wiseman on Unsplash I’ve always thought the idea of reparations was more than a little dumb. It’s not that I think slavery was a good thing or that we shouldn’t...

Polish President Karol Nawrocki made headlines recently for stripping his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Poland’s highest honor over Kyiv’s decision to name a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (known by the acronym UPA), a partisan formation responsible...

Activism, Column, Europe

Iraq's government has given pro-Iran armed groups in the country until 30 September to disarm, coinciding with the end of the US-led anti-Islamic State coalition's mission, its spokesman said on Monday. The announcement comes ahead of a visit to the...

MENA

RAMALLAH, (PIC) A Palestinian child was martyred after being shot by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) during a raid in Bireh City’s Umm al‑Sharayet neighborhood in the central West Bank. According to a medical source, 15-year-old Amir Jaber succumbed to a critical...

News, Israeli crimes, Palestinian martyrs

It has been and remains to be about one thing: the ethnic cleansing of Gaza Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium . Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter ....

Geopolitics, Article, Caitlin Johnstone

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein on Monday began his first trip to Syria since the December 2024 ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. Relations between the two countries have faced upheaval since the fall of Assad, who was a...

MENA

European nations are starting to pay attention after a landmark UN resolution, but reparations is about more than symbolic remembrance or returning stolen artefacts • Ghana conference calls for formal apology for transatlantic slave trade In Accra, Europe finally...

Africa, Ghana, Reparations and reparative justice

Abu Obeida, the spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, has applauded the Syrian citizens who confronted Israeli forces in the village of Abdin in southern Syria with simple means, describing them as “courageous people.” “They stood firm, refusing to yield to...

News, Abu Obeida, Israeli aggression

Andy Burnham, Britain's prime minister-in-waiting , vowed on Monday to deliver radical change to the nation's politics by handing more power to its regions and encouraging collaboration over argument in a 10-year mission to spur "good" growth. In a speech...

World

When a small team at Intel began work on its second-generation 8-bit microcontroller in the summer of 1978, they took lessons from their first effort, the 8048, hoping to create something more flexible and enduring. Approaching five decades later, their...

CAST, IP, 8051

The global tech landscape no longer resembles a global village; it is a fractured theater of war. Data sovereignty laws are carving the Internet into digital fiefdoms—a reality underscored by President Donald Trump’s explosive threat to slap 100...

Labor, Trade, & Finance, AI, China

When US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters last week that Iran’s missile programme and regional proxies “most certainly will come up in these conversations” during his three-day Gulf tour, Tehran quickly pushed back, making clear that...

Analysis

A fragile calm returned to the village of Abdin in Syria's western Daraa countryside on Monday after Israeli forces withdrew following the largest military escalation in the area in recent months. Israeli troops pulled back overnight from Tal al-Maghar...

MENA

Iraqi security forces have arrested at least 53 current and former politicians, lawmakers and government officials in a sweeping anti-corruption campaign launched by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, with authorities signalling that more than 100 suspects could ultimately face arrest. The...

MENA

WEST BANK, (PIC) The occupied West Bank is witnessing an unprecedented acceleration in the pace of Israeli settlement expansion, as this issue has turned into the most prominent headline of Israel’s policies aimed at deciding the conflict on the ground. The plans...

Reports, Annexation policy, West Bank

Russia has now made the strategic decision in response to prepare for war in Europe Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation The de-escalation framework that unfolded...

Geopolitics, Alastair Crooke, Article

How Azov, founded by far-right ideologue Andriy Biletsky, went from white supremacist militia to a celebrated part of Norway’s Ukraine solidarity – and the uncomfortable truths being whitewashed. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact...

Editor's Choice, Nazism, Ukraine

It’s almost hard to remember nowadays, but before the pandemic a lot of us were worried about falling business dynamism in the United States. For whatever reason, Americans just weren’t starting companies — either high-growth startups or small businesses — at the...

Technology, AI Fraud, AI Job Creation

Türkiye hopes for a reset with the European Union during the upcoming Irish presidency — after a six-month deadlock with the Greek Cypriot presidency — and views the visit by three senior EU officials to Ankara as an indication of...

Türkiye

What sets human beings apart from other life forms is the possession of cognitive assets that makes them unique. One such asset is morality. Unfortunately, the West is currently demonstrating a decline of collective morality. Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian social...

Africa, Politics, Africa: Overcoming the Legacy of Colonialism

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Monday morning and later in the afternoon, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources,...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian described the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement with the United States as a "significant achievement" and a "major victory" for his country, as it resulted in the lifting of a number of...

MENA
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