A. Issues in the environment 1. Economy 1.1. Economic Growth 1.1.1. Cabinet welcomed the latest GDP figures, which show that the economy has grown 0.8% in the second quarter of 2025, an improvement from the 0.1% growth in the first quarter. 1.1.2....
(MENAFN) The launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza from Tunisia has been postponed until Thursday, an organizer confirmed. Nabil Chennoufi, a steering committee member of the Maghreb branch of the flotilla, told media that “It was...
SWEDEN, September 10 - Published 10 September 2025 On 10–11 September, Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa is visiting the United Arab Emirates and the State of Qatar. The agenda includes meetings...
(MENAFN) A vessel participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) mission to Gaza was reportedly hit by what organizers suspect was a drone strike off the Tunisian coast early Tuesday. However, local authorities firmly denied the allegation. The...
(MENAFN) A flotilla carrying activists and humanitarian aid departed Barcelona’s port late Monday after adverse weather forced its return just a day earlier, organizers confirmed. “Now the weather forecast has improved, the first group of boats...
(MENAFN) Thousands of demonstrators surged through central London on Wednesday afternoon, voicing strong opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s second state visit to Britain. While Trump received honors from the royal family at Windsor...
Oxfam and partners at UNGA80 Oxfam leaders, experts, and partners are joining the UN 80th General Assembly and Climate Week in New York, hosting and attending events and releasing reports and statements focused on gender, humanitarian crises with...
(MENAFN) The Global Sumud Flotilla has left Menorca and is steadily progressing toward Tunisia as part of its campaign to challenge the Israeli siege of Gaza, deliver essential supplies, and raise worldwide awareness of the Palestinian situation,...
(MENAFN) Four Italian lawmakers are set to join the Global Sumud Flotilla on its mission to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, with departure slated soon, according to reports from Italian media on Wednesday. The delegation comprises...
(MENAFN) During a seminar held in Santander, located in northern Spain, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), strongly criticized the Israeli government's refusal to acknowledge the famine in Gaza, labeling...
In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land 08:00, 16 September 2025 until 08:00, 17 September 2025 Gaza Strip Sanction Israel Merciless blitz on starving Gaza — growing numbers of dead...
Dozens of world leaders are set to descend on New York for the 80th UN General Assembly, convening under a cloud of geopolitical upheaval. Diplomats are already bracing for Gaza to dominate the agenda, while momentous changes in Syria and Israel's...
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Anti-Semitism has unveiled a detailed report claiming that the Global Sumud Flotilla, a multinational convoy of over 50 vessels aiming to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza, is underpinned by...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Wednesday that the destruction in the Gaza Strip could be turned into a lucrative real estate opportunity, echoing past remarks by President Donald Trump that outraged Palestinians and their...
This week, staff of the Northcoast Environmental Center issued a letter to the organization’s executive committee and board of directors announcing a strike. The letter, first reported on by the Lost Coast Outpost, lays out conditions that the...
The UN Human Rights Council just concluded a study that confirms what all human rights organizations have concluded: that Israel is committing genocide as defined by International law. Meanwhile the corrupted governments around the world fail to...
Portraits by Sophia Evans People are on their feet, screaming, roaring, stamping and whistling. The recipient of this standing ovation isn’t the band Gorillaz, or the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, both present tonight at Wembley Arena, or indeed,...
Mad River Union ARCATA – In a special meeting that took place Monday evening after the Union’s press deadline, the Arcata City Council was set to consider two measures: • Sending a letter to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System...
On March 19, 2025, the Presidents of Carnegie Mellon, Purdue University, Stanford University, the University of Illinois, the University of Maryland, and the University of Southern California received an unusual government request: to turn over...
