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Detained without Charge: 11 Yemenis leave Guantanamo

Detained without Charge: 11 Yemenis leave Guantanamo

On 6 January, the Pentagon announced that it had “resettled” 11 Yemeni men to Oman after detaining them over two decades without charge at the...

yesterday 30

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

What fate awaits Abbas and his Authority?

What fate awaits Abbas and his Authority?

Mahmoud Abbas has six security agencies which operate mainly in the (A) classified area of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and which exchange...

yesterday 20

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Muhammad Jamil

Why context is important in Palestine

Why context is important in Palestine

The genocide in Gaza is ongoing. More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel from October 2023 to date, 17,000 of whom were children....

yesterday 20

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Dr Chandra Muzaffar

Israel destroyed Gaza ‘for generations to come’ and the world stayed silent

The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development...

yesterday 30

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

When it comes to genocide and Palestine, the world is — deliberately — getting its priorities wrong

When it comes to genocide and Palestine, the world is — deliberately — getting its priorities wrong

As Israel’s ban on the UN Refugee and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) looms closer, the language used by officials deals more with...

previous day 20

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Ramona Wadi

Gaddafi offered to give up WMDs in return for eased US pressure on human rights issues, UK documents reveal

Gaddafi offered to give up WMDs in return for eased US pressure on human rights issues, UK documents reveal

Muammar Gaddafi’s regime offered to dismantle programmes of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to deter pressure over Libya’s human rights...

previous day 1

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Amer Sultan

EU funding for Israeli tech raises fresh concerns about complicity in genocide

EU funding for Israeli tech raises fresh concerns about complicity in genocide

Israel’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) funded by European Union research programmes to target civilians is attracting a lot of criticism....

previous day 50

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Melike Pala

Remembering the First Intifada and the birth of Hamas

Remembering the First Intifada and the birth of Hamas

The Palestinian First Intifada started on 7 December, 1987, marked by mass demonstrations, first in Gaza before spreading to the entire Palestinian...

previous day 10

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Surviving winter: Gaza’s mothers speak out

Surviving winter: Gaza’s mothers speak out

As the harsh months of winter descend on Gaza, countless families find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival. Among them is Fida Soboh, a...

previous day 10

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Tasnim Nazeer

So many in the academy will say, ‘We were with you all along...’

So many in the academy will say, ‘We were with you all along...’

Overcome by the guilt of having been an accomplice in the slaying of the Scottish King Duncan in the well-known Shakespearean tragedy, Lady Macbeth...

previous day 10

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Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne

What is the point of the UN Security Council?

What is the point of the UN Security Council?

With the beginning of 2025, Somalia, Pakistan, Panama, Denmark and Greece joined the UN Security Council as non-permanent members, a diplomatic and...

wednesday 20

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Abdul Hamid Othmani

Syria new leaders face economy decimated by war, sanctions

Syria new leaders face economy decimated by war, sanctions

Syria’s economy has been decimated by more than a decade of civil war and sanctions that have severed it from the global financial system. Below is...

07.01.2025 2

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Reuters

As states take the lead, is the curtain falling on UN’s role as global mediator?

As states take the lead, is the curtain falling on UN’s role as global mediator?

With the advent of the next quarter of this century, the UN, long heralded as a beacon for global peacekeeping and mediation, faces mounting...

07.01.2025 5

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Anadolu Agency

The countdown begins to topple Netanyahu's government and remove him from the political scene

The countdown begins to topple Netanyahu's government and remove him from the political scene

While the leaders of the Israeli occupation continue to repeatedly claim that they have “changed” the Middle East, the prevailing conviction...

07.01.2025 2

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Aziz Mustafa

Assad’s ouster has caused Arab nationalists to lose their balance

Assad’s ouster has caused Arab nationalists to lose their balance

The fall of the tyrant Bashar Al-Assad and the liberation of Syria at the hands of a few faithful men within ten days continues to send shockwaves...

07.01.2025 8

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Dr Amira Abo El-Fetouh

The war criminal ‘victim’: Netanyahu’s inevitable fate

The war criminal ‘victim’: Netanyahu’s inevitable fate

Israel’s notorious former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has suddenly disappeared into obscurity. The man who served in his country’s military...

07.01.2025 6

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

Celebrating revolution by annihilating it is Abbas’s style

Celebrating revolution by annihilating it is Abbas’s style

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas should have stayed silent on the 60th anniversary of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)...

07.01.2025 5

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Ramona Wadi

Egypt and the new Syria: Concerns about the spread of revolution

Egypt and the new Syria: Concerns about the spread of revolution

Extreme fear and caution dominate Egypt’s ruling circles regarding the new Syria in the post-Assad era. This comes amid a campaign to discredit...

07.01.2025 4

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Mahmoud Hassan

Frail egos and sandpit colonialism: Australia, the US and invading Iraq

05.01.2025 8

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Diary Entry #1492

05.01.2025 9

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Thaer Husien

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