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Recognising Palestine now is ‘virtue signalling’, says veteran Middle East negotiator
Brisbane Times
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August 18, 2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that France’s decision to recognise Palestine emboldened Hamas to play hardball in negotiations to secure a ceasefire in the war in Gaza. Asked about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s stated desire for...
'They aim to kill': West Bank doctors seeing more complex wounds in Palestinians
The National News
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Surgeons are witnessing an increase in the severity of attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, creating a greater life-saving challenge for medics who believe victims have been deliberately maimed. They told The National their patients’...
United Local student makes most of summer vacation
Morning Journal - Ohio
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United Local High School student Ethan Logan, 15, shows off some of the cutting and charcuterie boards and coaster sets that he and business partner-dad Scott Logan have crafted out of up to 75 different types of wood as they craft inventory items...
Popular author promises to use BBC royalties to fund proscribed terror organisation Palestine Action
GB News
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August 18, 2025
A popular author has pledged to use money from the BBC to fund Palestine Action, a proscribed terror organisation. Sally Rooney said the police should investigate the companies and high-street stores which stock and promote her work if they think...
Parliamentary Tourism Committee Condemns Freezing of Patriarchate Accounts in Jerusalem
Jordan News
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August 17, 2025
The Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Tourism and Antiquities, MP Wasfi Haddad, who is also a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the coordinating member of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO), strongly condemned...
Palestinian woman evacuated to Italy in a severely emaciated state dies in hospital
SBS
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A young Palestinian woman who was flown from Gaza to an Italian hospital in a severely emaciated state for treatment has died, the hospital said. The 20-year-old, identified by Italian media reports as Marah Abu Zuhri, arrived in Pisa on an...
Laura Loomer’s Latest Victim: Visas For Critically Injured Palestinian Kids
Mother Jones
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August 17, 2025
Laura Loomer continues to prove she wields a scary amount of power inside the Trump administration. Tom Williams/CQ/ZUMA Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Laura...
Hundreds gather at Palestine rally as no arrests made for support of banned group
The Irish News
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Hundreds of people gathered at Belfast City Hall on Sunday in what was a largely peaceful protest over the ongoing war in Gaza. The “Defend the Right to Protest” rally saw the arrival of dozens of cyclists who travelled to Belfast from Dublin to...
Recognition of Palestinian state will ultimately mean ‘Lesser Israel’
Gulf Today
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August 17, 2025
In a television interview broadcast last week, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu admitted he "feels a connection" to a "vision" of "Greater Israel," an aspiration long cherished by the Zionist movement. Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and...
US Vice President JD Vance leaves Scotland after private family holiday
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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August 17, 2025
US Vice-President JD Vance has left Scotland after visiting for a private holiday. Vance arrived at Prestwick Airport on Tuesday night in an official US plane for a four-day stay. A motorcade took him back to the airport with his family on Sunday...
Kyrie Irving pays tribute to Palestinian child killed in Gaza with major move
Sportskeeda
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August 17, 2025
Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving changed his Instagram profile picture to a photo of Yaqeen Hammad, an 11-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza, as a sign of solidarity. Hammad was widely described as “Gaza’s youngest influencer” and was...
Recognizing a Palestine State: What’s New—and What’s Not
The Cairo Review
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August 17, 2025
At the United Nations General Assembly scheduled for September 2025, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada plan to formally recognize Palestine as a state—a move they announced this past July. Of the four, France is the only one that...
Sally Rooney vows to support Palestine Action with BBC royalties despite terror ban
The Independent
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August 18, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Vance leaves Scotland after family holiday
BBC
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August 17, 2025
ShareSave Air Force Two took off from Prestwick Airport on Sunday afternoon US Vice-President JD Vance has left Scotland after a private holiday with his family. Vance spent four days in the country, during which time he stayed on a private...
Swinney calls on UK Government to enable Gaza students to travel to Scotland
Northern Scot
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August 17, 2025
Scotland’s First Minister has called for “urgent action” from the UK Government to ensure students from Gaza can take up their places at Scottish universities. John Swinney said that other countries have successfully evacuated Gazan students to...
Palestinian envoy blocks AUW enrollment, alleges Israeli ties with western universities
Weekly Blitz
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August 16, 2025
Palestinian envoy blocks AUW enrollment, alleges Israeli ties with western universities In an extraordinary move that raises more questions than answers, the Palestinian envoy in Dhaka, Yousef S. Y. Ramadan, has accused Western universities – and...
London Metropolitan Police announce over 60 prosecutions to be made after pro-Palestine protest
JURIST
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August 17, 2025
London’s Metropolitan Police on Friday announced that over 60 people will be prosecuted for supporting the proscribed Palestine Action group, in the wake of multiple arrests at a demonstration led by the group earlier this month. Stephen...
Sally Rooney vows to use BBC royalties to fund Palestine Action
Yahoo Sports - Canada
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August 17, 2025
Sally Rooney has vowed to use money from the BBC to fund the proscribed terror organisation Palestine Action. The novelist said the police should investigate the corporations and the high-street stores that stock and promote her work if they...
Palestinian woman, 20, dies in hospital after being evacuated from Gaza to Italy
The Independent
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August 16, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Foreign Office puts 72 countries on 'do not travel' list with UK tourists warned
Birmingham Live
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August 17, 2025
Of 226 countries or territories with foreign travel advice pages, 72 are currently flagged as having no-go zones due to security issues, health risks and legal differences with the UK. The Foreign Office has placed a string of countries on a "do...