Archives for May, 2024

TOPSHOT - This video grab from AFPTV shows an aerial view of destroyed buildings in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 22, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and them militant group Hamas. Israel pulled its ground forces from Khan Yunis on April 7 after carrying out what it called a "precise and limited operation" at the Nasser Medical Complex, one of the biggest hospitals in the Palestinian territory. (Photo by AFPTV / AFP) (Photo by -/AFPTV/AFP via Getty

For the day after, a 3-phase Gaza plan toward a two-state solution

The stark options before Israelis and Palestinians today are to continue to fight each other or to agree on a plan to achieve the timely fulfillment of a two-state solution.

Rasoulof held up pictures of his actors Soheila Golestani and Missagh Zareh at the premiere

Escaped Iranian director receives ovations at Cannes

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The treaty was agreed at the UN's WIPO agency

Celebrations as new biopiracy treaty agreed at UN

Agence France-Presse

A Tunisian man prays at a synagogue in Djerba during an annual Jewish pilgrimage

Tunisian Jewish pilgrimage sees low turnout amid security fears

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Syrian refugee Hassan Jaber al-Salloum sells vegetables at the roadside in the Lebanese village of Minyara

'Afraid to walk the streets': Syria refugees face Lebanon expulsion

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Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud and Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward discuss Saudi Arabia's aggressive move into gaming companies

Saudi Arabia spending big for a place on the gaming map

Agence France-Presse

People view posters of missing Israelis on a wall at Hostages Square, Tel Aviv, Feb.12, 2024.

Israel recovers bodies of 3 hostages reportedly killed Oct. 7

The Israeli military announced that its troops had retrieved the bodies from a tunnel in Jabalia, in northern Gaza.

A Palestinian boy stands in a destroyed house in Gaza's Nuseirat area following Israeli bombardment overnight, on May 23, 2024

Top UN court orders Israel to halt Rafah offensive

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A displaced Palestinian child flies a kite near the border with Egypt in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 28, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas militants. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)

In Egypt, displaced Gazans organize in grassroots movements

Despite a precarious life without rights or financial resources, displaced Gazans in Egypt are organizing themselves into grassroots movements to respond to community needs and send humanitarian aid to Gaza.

The ICJ's rulings are binding but it has no way to enforce them

ICJ orders Israel to 'immediately halt' Rafah offensive

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Shaken by Covid-19, countries decided to build a framework of binding commitments to stop such trauma from happening again

Pandemic agreement talks end without a deal

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United Nations Under Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix speaks to AFP at UN headquarters in New York City on May 21, 2024

Don't expect UN peacekeepers to stop wars, chief tells AFP

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Kurdish women hold portraits of their missing sons on May 18, 2011, during a demonstration in Istanbul against the recent killing of 12 Kurdish rebels by security forces.

Many faces of motherhood in Turkey: From new Mothers Museum to 1,000th vigil of Saturday mothers

As a new museum in Ankara pays homage to motherhood, the mothers of the country remain a fractured group, divided by political lines and economic woes

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) greets people attending the unveiling of a statue of evangelist Rev. William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Sr. at the Capitol in Statuary Hall, Washington, DC, May 16, 2024.

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Speaker Johnson says Israel’s Netanyahu to address Congress soon

The speech will mark the second time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed a joint session of Congress.

Court's president Joan Donoghue (C) and associate judges arrive to hear South African arguments to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as part of South Africa case against Israel over Rafah offensive in The Hague, on May 16, 2024.

Breaking | Last Updated: May 24, 2024, 1:16 pm

ICJ orders Israel to 'immediately halt' military operations in Rafah

The Hague-based International Court of Justice accepted part of a request by South Africa in issuing its order.

This photograph taken in Lyon, eastern France, on Sept. 5, 2023, shows the entrance of the International Criminal Police Organization headquarters, known as Interpol.

Interpol red notice for mother, son who fled Turkey to US after hit-and-run

A lawyer of the family of the man who died in the fatal car crash says the move raised their hopes for justice.