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Rasha Abou jalal May 07, 2025

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29773800

I hate to call Kashmir disputed. I know how warm hearted Kashmiris are when it comes to the tourists. It was a dirty game they had to play !!

After the UK adopted a new policy that it would not allow any weapons shipments that could be used in Gaza, Britain’s Labour government allowed the export of 8,630 separate munitions to Israel.

By Grace Gilson May 4, 2025 from The Forward [Jewish publication from USA]

The government has profiled the country’s second-largest ethnic community, splitting the counties where they are dominant into “friendly” and “hostile”.

BEIRUT/AMMAN, May 7 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has set up a backchannel for talks between Israel and Syria, three people familiar with the matter said, as Syria's new rulers seek regional help to manage an increasingly hostile relationship with their southern neighbour.

By Ben Sales April 30, 2025 6:09 am

The New York Times reported on Sunday that a US-made Patriot anti-missile system will be transferred from Israel to Ukraine.

Ryan Grim May 06, 2025

Vance is surprised to discover that the side that won the war gets to set the terms for peace.

The Turkish intelligence has seized 1,300 booby-trapped pagers intended for Lebanon, identical to those used in the attack in the country in September, Turkiye’s Sabah newspaper reported.

By Alien Fernandez May 1, 202511:30 AM EDT

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Jason Burke in Tel Aviv and Julian Borger Tue 6 May 2025 17.16 EDT

On May 5, 2025, International Court of Justice (ICJ, also referred to as the Court) delivered its order on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by Sudan in the case concerning application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) in Sudan (Sudan v. United Arab Emirates (UAE)).

In response to Israel's escalating aggression and expanded military operations in Gaza, the Yemeni Armed Forces have declared a full air blockade on Israel," YAF spokesperson Brigadier General Yehya Saree said in a statement.

By Ahmed Dremly in Gaza City, occupied Palestine Published date: 5 May 2025 12:35 BST

Jeremy Scahill May 05, 2025

A senior Hamas official has urged international institutions dedicated to prisoners’ rights to fulfill their duties regarding the ongoing systematic killings of Palestinian abductees within Israeli prisons.

Yemen’s Armed Forces have hit the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv after several attempts by the Israeli military to intercept it failed.

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We’ve done it, we got rid of another soulless right wing politician!

cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/114434671978793771

On March 22nd, this journalist detailed the findings of a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on “Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” That investigation focused primarily on the hideous, industrial scale rape and sexual abuse of male and female Palestinian detainees in Zionist Occupation Force prisons, a phenomenon so pervasive it can only be dedicated, determined policy, signed off upon and directed by the highest levels of the Israeli government.

Anti-genocide protests which have taken place regularly in Morocco escalated to coincide with the arrival of the Nexoe Maersk (flagged in Hong Kong) and another container ship involved in the onward transit of the components to Israel, the US-flagged Maersk Detroit. It is understood that the F-35 parts were en route to the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, a pivotal location for the Israeli Air Force’s war against the Palestinians.

["fierce opposition"? Don't bet on it.]

By SAM METZ and AKRAM OUBACHIR Updated 9:37 AM EDT, May 4, 2025

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi May 4, 20259:03 AM EDT

By Erika Solomon and Rawan Sheikh Ahmad Photographs and Video by Saher Alghorra Saher Alghorra reported from northern Gaza. May 4, 2025 Updated 9:07 a.m. ET

On May 3rd, the world exchanges congratulations and statements to celebrate press freedom. Conferences are held, reports are published, and slogans are raised about “Preserving the Word” and “Protection of Journalists”. But behind this perfect scene, there is a place called Gaza, where the journalist pays his life for the truth, in the shadow of an international silence that applies to the camera as the siege on the city.

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62941789

Ahmet Gencturk | 02.05.2025 - Update : 02.05.2025

A Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessel was attacked with a drone strike in international waters off the coast of Malta, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition reported, as Palestinians in Gaza face mass starvation and a mounting death toll from child malnutrition.

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Ryanair would look for an alternative aircraft supplier if US tariffs materially affect the price of planes it has ordered from Boeing, chief executive Michael O’Leary said in a letter on Thursday, adding that he would consider Chinese plane maker COMAC.

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By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine Published date: 29 April 2025 14:07 BST

Losers uninvited themselves this year.

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The UK government shared contact details of counter-terrorism police and prosecutors with the Israeli embassy during an investigation into protests at an arms factory, official documents suggest, raising concerns about foreign interference.

Denunciations are rapidly mounting in Europe of the ceasefire that factions within Washington are trying to broker to end the three-year NATO-Russia war in Ukraine. Behind these attacks lie bitter rivalries between Washington and the European imperialist powers over the plunder of Ukraine and more broadly over how to divide the world economy between them amid the accelerating global trade war over Trump’s tariffs.

China announced a series of measures to protect its economy and workers from the impact of an intensifying trade war with the United States on Monday, as officials said they remained “fully confident” of hitting the country’s annual economic growth target of about 5 per cent.

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Jason Burke in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza Sun 27 Apr 2025 12.00 EDT