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Organisers of Eurovision Song Contest ready to remove Palestinian flags or symbols

May 2, 2024 admin

The completed Eurovision stage at Malmo Arena is shown at a press conference in Malmo, Sweden on April 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest said on May 2 they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show next week in Sweden. The announcement…

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Iran Imposes Sanctions On US, UK Officials, Entities Over Israel Support

May 2, 2024 admin

Penalties were also announced against US firms Lockheed Martin and Chevron (Representational) Tehran, Iran: Iran announced on Thursday sanctions on several American and British individuals and entities for supporting Israel in its war against the Palestinian group Hamas. The Islamic republic, the regional arch-foe of Israel, unveiled the punitive measures in a statement from its…

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Morning Digest | BJP video removed from Instagram after ‘hate speech’ complaints; SC declines to receive govt. plea on ‘administrative allocation’ of spectrum, and more

May 2, 2024 admin

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Riot Police Storm US Colleges After Violent Protests Over Gaza War

May 2, 2024 admin

At Columbia and City University of New York, police cleared demonstrators out overnight Police deployed a heavy presence on US university campuses Wednesday after forcibly clearing away some weeks-long protests against Israel’s war with Hamas. Dozens of police cars patrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles campus in response to violent clashes overnight when…

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Rafah Offensive Will Happen With Or Without Gaza Truce Deal: Netanyahu

April 30, 2024 admin

Washington has heightened pressure on all sides to reach a ceasefire (File) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday that the military would launch a ground offensive on Gaza’s far-southern Rafah city “with or without” a truce deal being negotiated with Hamas. The hawkish premier issued the warning despite strong concerns raised by top…

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Israelis Help Palestinians Hit By Settler Attacks

April 29, 2024 admin

Rising settler attacks since the war in Gaza have sparked widespread alarm and condemnation. Tuwani: In a desert region of the occupied West Bank, Israeli activist Eyal Shani has fitted a tiny camera on his T-shirt to collect evidence of settler violence against Palestinian sheep farmers. Campaigners like Shani have been trying to protect Palestinians…

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US, Egypt “Hopeful” Of Gaza Truce As Envoys Meet In Cairo

April 29, 2024 admin

In February, Netanyahu said any truce deal would only delay — not prevent — a Rafah operation. Jerusalem: US top diplomat Antony Blinken said Monday he was “hopeful” Hamas would accept the latest proposal for a long-sought Gaza truce and hostage release deal as negotiators from the Palestinian group were due in Egypt. Egypt, Qatar…

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2 Israeli Ministers Oppose Gaza Truce Deal

April 28, 2024 admin

Egypt, Qatar and the United States have been trying to mediate a new truce (File) Jerusalem: Two Israeli ministers publicly opposed a Gaza truce deal Sunday, saying Benjamin Netanyahu’s government had no right to exist if it failed to invade Rafah, Hamas’s last bastion in the Palestinian territory. Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and war…

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Nemat ‘Minouche’ Shafik | A president under fire

April 27, 2024 admin

On April 17, students at Columbia University escalated their ongoing protests against the war on Gaza by occupying university lawns and creating a ‘Gaza solidarity encampment’. At about the same time, Columbia University’s first woman president Nemat ‘Minouche’ Shafik was attending a Congressional hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce wherein…

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100 Detained As Police Clear Pro-Palestinian Camp At Boston University In US

April 27, 2024 admin

“Those who refused to disclose their affiliation were arrested,” the school said. Boston: Police in riot gear detained about 100 people as they cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at a Boston university Saturday, the latest in a series of clashes on US campuses triggered by protests over Israel’s war against Hamas. The action was taken after…

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