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Iran’s Khamenei confirms Mohammad Mokhber as interim president 2024-05-20
Al Jazeera

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has confirmed that Mohammad Mokhber will take over as interim president following the death of Ebrahim Raisi. Ali Khamenei, who wields ultimate power in Iran, confirmed that the first vice president will become acting head of the country’s executive...

photo: Iranian First Vice-President Office via AP

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu 2024-05-20
Hong Kong Standard

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in connection with their actions during the seven-month war. Karim Khan said that he believes...

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Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president, dies in helicopter crash aged 63 2024-05-20
Al Jazeera

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has died after a helicopter carrying him and other officials crashed in a mountainous and forested area of the country in poor weather. The 63-year-old, a figure representing conservative and hardline factions in Iranian politics, was president for nearly three years,...

photo: AP / Kim Ludbrook

An ultimatum raises pressure on Netanyahu to make postwar plans for Gaza, even as fighting rages 2024-05-19
Independent Online

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from his own War Cabinet and his country's closest ally over postwar plans for Gaza, even as the war with Hamas shows no sign of ending. On Saturday, Benny Gantz, a member of the War Cabinet and Netanyahu's main political rival,...

photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana

Israel risks pariah status as castigation over Gaza war by its allies, UN members escalates 2024-05-18
South China Morning Post

The US, Australia and India are among Israel’s long-time allies that have objected to the mounting casualties and escalation in the Gaza war. ......

photo: AP / Tsafrir Abayov

Pressure grows for Netanyahu to make postwar plans for Gaza 2024-05-17
Beijing News

White House - International and domestic pressure is mounting on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to establish a strategic endgame for the Israel-Hamas war that would tie Israeli military gains to a political solution for the Palestinian enclave. In his harshest public rebuke yet to...

photo: AP / Saher Alghorra

The Palestinian Nakba, from 1948 to Today 2024-05-16
Democracy Now

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Palestinians and allies marked the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, May 15th – the day after the state of Israel was formally declared. “Nakba” is Arabic for “catastrophe,” and is used to describe the murder, dispossession and forced displacement Palestinians...

photo: AP / Ariel Schalit

Nakba to Nakba, Palestinian life 76 years post-catastrophe is worse than 75 2024-05-16
Al Jazeera

Palestinians say the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to clear the way for the formation of Israel in 1948 – never ended. Instead, they believe it is still in motion, continuing to displace and kill Palestinians from their homes, their communities, and their lands. Last May marked the...

photo: AP / Saher Alghorra

Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah; battles rage in northern Gaza 2024-05-15
GDN Online

CAIRO - Israeli tanks pushed deeper into Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential areas of the southern Gazan border city where more than a million people had sought shelter, and its forces pounded the enclave's north in some of the fiercest attacks in months. Israel's international allies and...

photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana

Israeli tanks push into Gaza’s Rafah, as displaced civilians flee again 2024-05-14
CyprusMail

Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah, reaching some residential districts on Tuesday, stepping up an offensive in the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering after being displaced in seven months of war. Israel’s international allies and aid groups...

photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana, File