Following the UN Security Council vote to approve a three-phase ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. officials and other international allies of Israel are cynically placing blame on Hamas for a stall in current ceasefire negotiations — even as Israel has insisted on indefinitely continuing its massacre in Gaza and Hamas has said its main...
Protesters in Barcelona have sprayed visitors with water as part of a demonstration against mass tourism....
France’s far-right chief faces corruption investigation....
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Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem "too softly"....
Xi Jinping accused the US of trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, the Financial Times said....
The United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system, two U.S. officials said Tuesday, answering Kyiv’s desperate calls for more air defenses as it battles an intense Russian assault on the northeastern Kharkiv region....
The international criminal court must be allowed to carry out its work “without intimidation”, a group of 93 states has said in a significant public intervention intended to reinforce support for the judicial body....
Nato members have pledged their support for an "irreversible path" to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid....
The EU is having a radical rethink of how to cope with the trade threat from Beijing — and its response has a very Chinese flavor to it. ...
Wikipedia's editors voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League "generally unreliable" on Israel and Palestine as well as the issue of antisemitism, adding the organisation to a list of banned sources, according to a report by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA)....
At the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, Dr Iyad, director of the Kamal Adwan hospital's maternity department, refused to leave Gaza City, opting to stay with his patients and fulfil his humanitarian mission. But after a month of intense Israeli bombardment and siege, including the targeting of hospitals, he decided to take his...
The Israeli military says its Northern Command has approved operational plans for war with Lebanon....
