US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth came under fire from critics around the world this weekend after he turned his speech at a Saturday event marking the D-Day anniversary into a “racist rant” against migrants. On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches...
Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a rare visit to North Korea on June 8 – his first international trip this year – weeks after hosting US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing. The sequencing has...
GAZA, (PIC) 36 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of June, including three children and six women, according to Gaza’s civil defense service. Spokesman for the civil defense Mahmoud Basal said in press remarks...
Is the correction of AI value to follow that of the dot.com bubble of the late 1990s? Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Photo: Wikimedia Commons Goldman Sachs,...
GAZA, (PIC) Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has applauded the shooting operation that took place on Sunday in the Kochav Yair settlement area near Qalqilya City in the occupied West Bank. In social media remarks today, spokesman for the Brigades...
US President Donald Trump said Iran has "no choice" but to accept a nuclear agreement with Washington, warning that the US would obtain Tehran's enriched uranium either through a negotiated deal or by military force. Trump...
The Israeli military has used white phosphorus - a chemical that causes severe burns and respiratory problems – in civilian areas of Lebanon during its ongoing offensive in the south of the country, according to new...
The Adalah Centre for Human Rights has called on Israeli authorities to launch an immediate criminal investigation into allegations of rape and sexual assault made by a German journalist who took part in the 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)...
The United States is lobbying other countries on the UN nuclear watchdog's Board of Governors to back a draft resolution ordering Iran to inform the agency of the fate of its bombed nuclear sites and the...
GAZA, (PIC) The Jabalia al-Nazla municipality warned on Sunday of the worsening water and sanitation services crisis in the city, as a result of the acute shortage of fuel and oils necessary to operate generators. The municipality confirmed, in a press release,...
An Iranian court has rejected an appeal against a one-year jail sentence by director Jafar Panahi, who is now reportedly back in his homeland after winning top prize at last year's Cannes film festival , his lawyer...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning and later in the afternoon, amid restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources, 123 Jewish settlers...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) An Israeli court sentenced, on Sunday, Jerusalemite journalist Bayan al‑Ja’bah to 20 months in prison and an additional six months suspended for three years. “The court also ordered her to pay a 5,000‑shekel fine and set September 6, 2026,...
The House of Councillors passed the Takaichi government’s JPY 3.11 trillion budget on Friday, June 5, as expected, with the Democratic Party for the People (DPFP), Team Mirai, and the Conservative Party of Japan (CPJ) joining the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) When the same scenes recur in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, heavily armed occupation forces, settlers entering under protection, worshipers being restricted, and a city being pushed to the brink of explosion, the question of why Al-Aqsa incursions...
QALQILYA, (PIC) The West Bank witnessed on Sunday morning a new field development represented by a heroic shooting attack near the illegal Kokhav Ya’ir settlement north of Qalqilya city, which resulted in the killing of a settler and the injury of...
Imported democracy, far from emancipating Africa, locks it into a vicious cycle that perpetuates its underdevelopment. Through a sociometric, synchronic, and diachronic approach, this article seeks to deconstruct the foundational lie upon which the established order rests (I), before highlighting...
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to North Korea will be delicate and difficult. The relationship no longer resembles that of “lips and teeth” from the Korean War era — Korean lips and Chinese teeth. It has evolved into far...
Egyptian authorities have arrested businessman Sabry Nakhnoukh, a notorious figure from the Hosni Mubarak era who later re-emerged in public life after receiving a pardon under the current administration. Nakhnoukh is under investigation on suspicion of leading "an...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Two Palestinian resistance fighters were martyred on Sunday after carrying out a shooting operation near Qalqilya City in the Occupied West Bank. One Jewish settler was killed and six others were injured, some seriously, in the shooting operation that...
Syrian authorities have announced the arrests of three former Assad-era figures accused of war crimes and abuses, as the country's new government continues efforts to pursue individuals linked to violations committed during the brutal crackdown of a...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / Hundreds of volunteers, officials and community representatives gathered at Solomon’s Pools south of Bethlehem on Saturday for a large-scale cleanup campaign aimed at preserving one of the area’s most prominent historical landmarks while sending what...
GAZA, (PIC) The infant, Mohammad Ahmad al-Khatib, had not yet completed his fourth month when he found himself facing one of the harshest forms of genocide experienced by the Gaza Strip. At an age when a child does not understand the...
An American comedian and a pro-Israel influencer have caused outrage after mocking the sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israeli forces at a US film festival. The Tribeca Film Festival condemned the remarks made by Elon Gold and Lizzy Savetsky,...
An American comedian and a pro-Israel influencer have caused outrage after mocking the sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israeli forces at a US film festival. The Tribeca Film Festival condemned the remarks made by Elon Gold and Lizzy Savetsky,...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,971 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Sunday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Thousands of people rallied Saturday in the Albanian capital and hundreds in a protected nature reserve on the country's coast to protest plans for a luxury beach resort by a company linked to the Trump family. Answering...
Israeli forces arrested a prominent Palestinian academic and his parents in Hebron early on Sunday, amid continuing raids and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank . Dr Bilal Al-Shobaki, head of the Political Science Department at...
Palestinian officials have called for international intervention after Israel advanced plans for a waste treatment facility that could affect homes and agricultural land in the village of Qalandia , located northwest of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank. Amir Daoud,...
OPEC+ is set to agree on Sunday a fourth increase in oil output targets in as many months, three OPEC+ sources said, even though the US war with Iran is still preventing several of the group's members...
Tra slogan sulla “sovranità energetica”, mini-reattori e promesse di bollette leggere, il dibattito italiano sul nucleare sembra vivere in un eterno ritorno… ma dietro la retorica dell’indipendenza si nascondono costi, dipendenze esterne e problemi irrisolti che il Paese si porta...
The US and Israeli aggression against Iran, which began on February 28, has undermined confidence in the American administration, especially given that Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to renounce new wars of aggression. It has shaken international affairs, led to...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Different areas of the occupied West Bank witnessed last night and at dawn Sunday an Israeli escalation on the ground, marked by settler attacks and large‑scale raids and arrests carried out by Israeli forces, amid heightened security measures...
Good morning and welcome to The New Arab's live coverage. Here are the latest updates from the region: - The US and Iran have continued trading fire in the Gulf, with the US shooting down four...
Good morning and welcome to The New Arab's live coverage. Here are the latest updates from the region: - The US and Iran have continued trading fire in the Gulf, with the US shooting down four...
A well-known Lebanese environmental activist, known for her turtle conservation work, was wounded in an Israeli airstrike in the south of the country earlier this week. Mona Khalil was reportedly rushed to hospital after a strike on her beachfront...
GAZA, (PIC) Five Palestinian civilians were martyred and three others were pronounced dead on Sunday following Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, amid reports of ceasefire violations across various areas of the Gaza Strip. This afternoon, the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter...
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - Story By Nasma Al-Harazeen Standing amid the ruins of what was once his family home, 20-year-old Yousef Al-Shafee searches for traces of a life that disappeared during the war. The house in Beit Lahiya, northern...
I want to draw your attention to two news items that may complicate, if not derail, President Trump’s hopes of securing a peace agreement with Iran. Pakistan, as Pepe Escobar and I reported last week, continues to play a central...
Political victories achieved through strict party discipline and powerful financial support often result in a deepening of internal divisions, the consequences of which only become noticeable over time. Back in my days as a young public school teacher in Kentucky,...
By: Majid Maqbool - - - - In his book How to Sell a Genocide (Pluto Press), media analyst Adam H. Johnson, who clearly delivers from the left side of the political spectrum, delivers a scathing critique of...
Iraq have called up Ahmed Hassan Makenzie to their 2026 World Cup squad to replace Ahmed Yahya, who has been ruled out of the tournament with a hamstring injury, the national team announced on Saturday. "Based on the medical report, head...
The U.S. government will attempt to redirect Iranian assets to Gulf states for rebuilding and repairs of future damage caused by Iran, a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday, a day after a wave of attacks by Iran...
A drone strike hit a market in central Sudan on Saturday, killing 11 civilians and wounding dozens more, a rights group said, as escalating aerial attacks deepen the toll of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises . The attack...
È necessario agire di concerto contro il regime, reagendo sul campo di battaglia e condannandolo in ambito diplomatico. Segue nostro Telegram . Ancora una volta, il regime terroristico di Kiev ha sferrato un attacco su vasta scala contro la centrale...
Iran's former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi , who was the focus of a 2009 mass protest movement and has spent the last 15 years under house arrest, has been hospitalised after his health deteriorated, an advisor said on...
Iraq's World Cup striker, Aymen Hussein, was held and questioned for nearly seven hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad early on Saturday, an Iraqi sporting official said. Hussein was finally allowed in, but the team's...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem stated that the “criminal (Israeli) occupation committed a horrific massacre against children and women inside the tents of displaced people in Gaza City on Saturday afternoon, in a continued criminal escalation of the genocidal war...
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