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Georgia’s parliament adopted a controversial “foreign influence” law that has sparked mass protests against the measure [GETTY] Thousands of protesters rallied Tuesday in Georgia after parliament adopted a law to brand overseas-funded NGOs as groups under “foreign influence”, a measure Brussels has warned will undermine Tbilisi’s European aspirations. Lawmakers voted 84 to 30 in favour […]

KHARTOUM   Sudan experts are accusing troops loyal to the Sudanese army of using fires as a tool of war against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The fires have targeted oil wells under control of the RSF. Fires resulting from the fighting in Sudan destroyed or damaged 72 villages and settlements last month, a UK-based

OSLO: The Norwegian government Tuesday proposed 1 billion kroner ($92.5 million) in aid to Palestinians this year as humanitarian agencies warn of a looming famine in the Gaza Strip. Figures in the revised budget presented on Tuesday, show a roughly quadrupling of the 258 million kroner provided in the initial finance bill adopted last year.

Arab-Israeli protesters wave Palestinian national flags during a rally near Israel’s northern city of Shefa Amr, on May 14, 2024, ahead of the Palestinian marking of the 76th anniversary of the Nakba [Getty] Thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel participated in a symbolic march of return to Hawsha and Al-Kassasir, ethnically cleansed villages near Shefa-Amr

DOHA, Qatar They stroll Doha’s waterfront promenade and sing softly about children who are now “birds in heaven,” flying free of the pain of the war in Gaza. For the Palestinian group Sol Band, it seems surreal that weeks ago they were hiding from Israeli shelling. “I just want the war to end,” said Rahaf Shamaly, the

CAIRO/GENEVA/BERLIN: A shortage of banknotes is gripping Gaza, fueling criminal gangs and profiteering, after Israel has blocked imports of cash and most banks in the enclave have been damaged or destroyed during the war, according to residents, aid workers and banking sources.After more than 7 months of Israeli bombardment, just a handful of ATMs remain

The pro-Palestinian encampment was set up in Johannesburg on the lawns outside the University of the Witwatersrand’s Great Hall [Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group/Getty-file photo] A pro-Palestinian encampment was launched at a South African university on Monday as the student movement against Israel’s war on Gaza continued to spread around the world. The camp and “liberated

WASHINGTON   A former US military intelligence official released a letter on Monday that explained to his colleagues at the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) that his November resignation was in fact due to “moral injury” stemming from US support for Israel’s war in Gaza and the harm caused to Palestinians. Harrison Mann, an Army major,

BRUSSELS: The European Union on Tuesday expressed concern over a string of arrests of civil society figures in Tunisia. Tunisian lawyers on Monday protested and launched a nationwide strike over the arrest of a lawyer and political commentator in a weekend police raid. Tunisian authorities ordered Sunday the arrest of two political commentators over critical

Hashem Ghazal and his wife were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza [Getty/file photo] A prominent figure in Gaza’s deaf community has been killed alongside his wife in an Israeli strike on the enclave, activists and Palestinian media said on Monday. Hashem Ghazal was a disability rights advocate in the enclave, and was known