Category: 3. Middle East

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“We have a trade surplus with Australia… why were they whacked with a tariff?” US Senator and Democrat Mark Warner hammered US trade representative Jamieson Greer over the logic of Donald Trump’s tariffs at a meeting of the Senate…

Last week, the United States admitted it had wrongfully deported 29-year-old Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has now joined the burgeoning population of El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), which…

“Gaza is a killing field” said United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres as he condemned Israel’s blockade of food and medical supplies. Guterres said Israel’s actions in Gaza are “intolerable in the eyes of…

Public and private workers stage a 24-hour walkout for a full return of collective bargaining rights.

A nationwide general strike disrupted public services across Greece, with ferries tied up in port, flights grounded and public transport running…

Rescuers raced to find survivors more than 24 hours after the roof of a nightclub collapsed in the Dominican Republic during a concert, killing nearly 100 people.

Renowned Dominican merengue singer Rubby Perez, who was on stage at the popular Jet…

The White House says Cornell University’s $1bn and Northwestern University’s $790m in federal funding have been blocked.

The United States government has frozen more than $1bn in federal funding for Cornell University and about $790m for…

Refaat Radwan recorded his last mission and his own final breaths.

He was filming from the third ambulance in a convoy, which included a fire truck, that had gone out to find a Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance that had lost contact…

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, says despite occasional cancellations at some universities, she continues to speak out and share her work. She says there is a growing global censorship around…