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The line between success and failure in politics is often thin; there aren’t much nuances in some cases, and the building of a narrative which stays in the hearts and minds of citizens is essential. Building on this, assessing the early days of any new administration is challenging; these challenges are multiplied even more so when considering the fact that said administration is essentially building a new state from the ground up.  The Syrian Transitional Government, officially appointed on the 29 March, is approaching its five-month anniversary, and whilst there are a number of obstacles in its way, there has been progress in areas too. Ahmed Al-Sharaa, the President of Syria, has work to do but there are a number […]

Scores of illegal Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, local media said. The settlers toured the compound and performed Talmudic rituals under the protection of Israeli police, the official news agency Wafa reported. The settler incursion came amid rising tensions across the occupied West Bank over Israel’s deadly assault on the Gaza Strip, where nearly 63,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023. Al-Aqsa Mosque is the world’s third-holiest site for Muslims. Jews call the area Temple Mount, claiming it was the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times. Israel occupied East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa is located, during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the entire city in […]

A group of demonstrators, including current and former Microsoft employees, staged a protest at the company’s Redmond headquarters in the US state of Washington against the tech giant over its ties to the Israeli army amid the ongoing Gaza war, according to media reports. The protest was organized by a group called No Azure for Apartheid, named after Microsoft’s flagship cloud computing service Azure. Protesters gathered inside the office of Microsoft President Brad Smith in Building 34, where they chanted slogans and held banners. One sign renamed the office the “Mai Ubeid Building,” honoring a Palestinian software engineer from Gaza killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2023. Another banner called on Microsoft to “cut ties with Israel,” among other demands. […]

IMAGES: Funeral of 64 Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks on Gaza

China and Saudi Arabia have vowed to deepen cooperation in trade, investment, and industrial and supply chains, besides joint support for a multilateral trading system, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday. The understanding was reached during a meeting between China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao and Saudi Investment Minister Khalid Al-Falih on Tuesday. The meeting was held ahead of a four-day China-Arab States Expo, starting from Thursday till Sunday in Yinchuan, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region, where the two sides exchanged views on deepening cooperation in trade, investment, and industrial and supply chains, Beijing’s Commerce Ministry said in a statement. This year marks the 35th anniversary of diplomatic ties between China and Saudi Arabia. Wang said China is ready to […]

The Israeli army on Wednesday killed Palestinian international runner Allam al-Amour after shooting him as he tried to get aid in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Anadolu learned. Family sources said al-Amour “was martyred by Israeli army gunfire near what are known as American aid centers.” Al-Amour had won the bronze medal at the West Asia Clubs Athletics Championship in the youth category, hosted in Doha in March 2023, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa. The Palestinian runner secured bronze in the 3,000-meter race in the tournament’s first edition, which featured 250 athletes representing 12 clubs from West Asian federations. The Palestinian Athletics Federation mourned the runner. READ: Microsoft employees, activists protest tech giant over ties […]

The Israeli army stormed the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday morning, injured 25 Palestinians and laying siege to its Old City, eyewitnesses told Anadolu. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its teams treated 25 people who suffered from tear gas inhalation during ongoing clashes in Nablus. One person was transferred to the hospital, while the rest were treated on the spot, the organization said. Witnesses said clashes erupted between dozens of Palestinians and Israeli army forces around the Old City of Nablus, where youths pelted the army with stones, which responded by live fire, rubber-coated bullets, and tear gas canisters to disperse protesters. Witnesses said military reinforcements were deployed in and around the […]

Barcelona Mayor Jaume Collboni announced Tuesday that Gaza and other Palestinian cities will symbolically become Barcelona’s 11th district to enhance cooperation and solidarity, Anadolu reports. Collboni unveiled the plan during a visit to Jordan, saying the new district would be a technical and budgetary entity within Barcelona’s municipal structure. It will complement the city’s 10 existing districts and coordinate all cooperation projects with Palestinian cities and UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. “This is no longer a one-off cooperation with visits, but a permanent structure, designed to utilize the talent of municipal technicians,” he said, adding that a similar structure could be created “in Palestinian territory or, if necessary, in Jordan.” The concept follows a precedent set in 1995 […]

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday condemned Israel’s recent attack that killed five international journalists in the Gaza Strip as “unacceptable” and asked for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East conflict, Anadolu reports. Speaking at the annual Rimini meeting – organized by the catholic association Comunione e Liberazione – Meloni said the deadly strike represented “an unacceptable attack on the freedom of the press and on all those who risk their lives to report the drama of war.” Twenty Palestinians, including five journalists and a firefighter, were killed and several others wounded Monday in an Israeli strike on the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. The Italian premier recalled Italy’s immediate support to Israel after […]

More than 20 civil society organizations on Wednesday called on the British government to take action against companies they say are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Anadolu reports. Criticizing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government for failing to hold British companies accountable for their involvement with Israel’s actions in Gaza, the statement said this has “helped to normalize violations of international law.” “The UK government continues to allow UK firms to trade with and invest in businesses based in illegal settlements on the West Bank,” the statement says, according to Scottish daily The National. “These economic relations help to make such enterprises profitable, boost the settlement economy, maintain the system of apartheid, and sustain Israel’s unlawful presence in the occupied […]