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July 28, 2021

UK university’s links to Bahrain ‘torture hub’ exposed in parliamentary report

A British university’s affiliations to a Bahraini institution accused of human rights abuses has been highlighted in a parliamentary report following a plea by an 11-year-old boy who insisted that his...

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July 28, 2021

Israel defence to receive budget increase of $2.15bn in 2022

The Israeli defence and finance ministers will allocate 58 billion shekels ($17.8 billion) towards the defence establishment in 2022, an increase of $2.15 billion. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett,...

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July 28, 2021

Israel to grant 16,000 new work permits to stabilise PA

Israel is set to increase the number of work permits granted to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank by some 16,000 in what appears to be an attempt to...

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July 28, 2021

Lebanon PM: New gov’t to be formed in ‘near future’

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati today said that he hoped to form a government in the “near future”, Reuters reports. Mikati, a businessman, is the third person to be nominated since Hassan Diab’s...

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July 28, 2021

Ghannouchi forms national front to annul Tunisia president’s decisions

Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament, Rached Ghannouchi, announced that his Ennahda party is seeking to form a national front to counter the decisions recently taken by Tunisian President Kais...

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July 28, 2021

Exchanging kindness Palestine father, Israel mother donate kidneys

An Israeli woman has donated one of her kidneys to a three-year-old Palestinian boy from the Gaza Strip in an exchange of incredible kindness that saw the boy’s father...

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July 28, 2021

HRW: Israel committed ‘apparent war crimes’ in Gaza attacks in May

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday accused Israel of carrying out attacks against the Palestinians in Gaza “that violated the laws of war and apparently amount to war crimes” during...

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July 28, 2021

Uyghur activist at imminent risk of deportation, torture after arrest in Morocco

Morocco has arrested an Uyghur activist following a warrant issued by China accusing him of terrorism. Concerns are growing that BelgiumUyghur/ will now be extradited to China, which has...

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July 28, 2021

Egypt hands death sentence to top aide of militant leader Hisham Ashmawi

An Egyptian court sentenced three persons to death, including the senior aide of Hisham Al-Ashmawy who was executed last year, after finding them guilty of terrorism charges over their...

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July 28, 2021

Unilever rejects BDS, distances itself from Ben & Jerry’s decision

Coming under fire for Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling ice cream in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, parent company Unilever sought to assuage concerns of several American Jewish groups...

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