Fri 01 December 2023: More than 1,300 artists, including Academy Award winning Olivia Colman and Olivier Award winners Harriet Walter and Juliet Stevenson, have signed an open letter addressed to the arts and culture sector, that accuses cultural institutions in Western countries of “repressing, silencing and stigmatising Palestinian voices and perspectives”. Other signatories include BAFTA […]
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Sat 02 December 2023: Washington, DC – MSNBC has cancelled Mehdi Hasan’s weekend TV programme, sparking anger from many Palestinian rights supporters who consider the progressive host a rare critic of Israeli policies on United States cable news. The decision, first reported by the news website Semafor on Thursday, came amid what advocates describe as a crackdown on […]
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Fri 01 December 2023: The CIA has stressed to its officers that they should refrain from political statements on social media after one of its top officers shared a pro-Palestinian photo on Facebook. The intelligence agency’s associate deputy director for analysis changed their Facebook cover photo to a man waving a Palestinian flag on October […]
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Thu 30 October 2023: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak stated that the Hamas movement is far from falling apart in the southern Gaza Strip and retains its capabilities in the north. In an article published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Tuesday, Barak wrote, “About two months into the war, Israel is nearing a […]
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Wed 29 October 2023: Speaking at a news conference in Brussels, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says his country is “sending humanitarian assistance to Gaza to make sure its people have what they need to get by”. “Looking at the next couple of days, we’ll be focused on doing what we can to extend […]
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Wed 29 October 2023: The Israeli government approved an annex budget Tuesday, described as unprecedented, worth an estimated $8 billion to cover the needs of the war against Gaza. The new annex budget of 30 billion Israeli shekels will cover the costs of funding the war until the end of the year, according to the […]
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Wed 29 October 2023: The 11th edition of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), of which Anadolu Agency is the Global Communication Partner, kicked off on Tuesday in the Qatari capital Doha. The opening session of the two-day summit being held at the Qatar National Convention Center featured Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the co-founder […]
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Wed 29 October 2023: Pope Francis has called for a continuation of the truce in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, according to Vatican News. “I hope that the truce in Gaza might continue so that all the hostages might be freed, and the necessary humanitarian aid might be able to enter,” the pope said at […]
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Tue 28 October 2023: Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has accused Israel’s army of taking organs from deceased individuals in the Gaza Strip, and urging for an impartial international inquiry to be conducted. On Sunday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor expressed worries over the potential theft of organs from Palestinian corpses, based on reports from medical experts […]
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Tue 28 October 2023: A truce in the Israel-Hamas war appeared to be extending into a fifth day as the two sides completed their fourth release of captives from Gaza in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli jails under an original four-day truce deal while mediators said the process would continue. Qatar, which along with Egypt has facilitated […]
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