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Caricom Summit underway in Montego Bay
Monday, July 7th 2025 - 19:47 UTC Security and resilience are not optional, Holness stressed The 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) is underway in Montego Bay, Jamaica, from July 6-8....

Spanish activist presses charges against Netanyahu over Gaza flotilla raid
Spanish activist Sergio Toribio filed a criminal complaint with Spain’s National Court on Thursday against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several top military officials over a naval operation that intercepted a humanitarian mission...
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PM Modi joins Brics leaders for family photo in Rio; calls for UN reform, zero tolerance on terror
Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined fellow Brics leaders, partner nations, and outreach invitees for the traditional family photo at the 17th Brics Summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. #WATCH | Brazil: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian...

ICE arrested a Palestinian newlywed after her honeymoon. Five months later, she’s free
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...

Turkey passes first 'far from ideal' climate change bill as heatwave ravages country
Turkey has passed its first "far from ideal" climate law even as the country is racked by a heatwave that has caused widespread wildfires. The new law introduces the first legally binding framework to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement in Turkey....

Investigation Reveals Use of Live Ammunition and Force Against Palestinians at Aid Distribution Sites
July 3, 2025 Hour: 6:46 pm A journalistic investigation has uncovered disturbing practices in the Gaza “Humanitarian Mission” coordinated by Israel and the United States, where Palestinians queuing desperately for aid face violence, intimidation,...

Calls Grow To Shut Down the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Many human rights organizations say it should shut down. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have killed hundreds of Palestinians at or around its aid centers. And yet, the United States has committed no less than $30 million toward the...

Are we failing women in climate disasters?
Updated 03 Jul, 2025 If space for reconciliation remains, both the government and PTI must seize it. 03 Jul, 2025 ALREADY left reeling by the abrupt, sweeping rollback of American development aid under President Donald Trump, the... 03 Jul, 2025...

Airstrikes and shootings kill 94 Palestinians in Gaza including dozens trying to get aid, officials say
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...

US-backed Gaza Relief NGO Vows ‘Legal Action’ Against AP Claim Group Fired on Palestinian Civilians
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US-backed nonprofit operating aid distribution centers in the Gaza Strip, is pushing back forcefully against an Associated Press report alleging that its contractors opened fire on Palestinian civilians....

Israel says Trump’s plan to resettle nearly two million Palestinians from Gaza is ‘still active’
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...

New citizens say family in Gaza wish they were dead
A woman from Gaza who has made a home in Dunedin says the last news she heard of her family was they wished they were dead. Sabreen Alsaadoni took an oath to become a New Zealand citizen at the Dunedin Town Hall on Wednesday after escaping Gaza in...

Private U.S. contractors fire live ammunition at starving Palestinians
This photo, provided by an American contractor on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal operations, shows a woman slumped over in a donkey cart after the contractor said she was hit in the head with part of a...

UN Says Israel is Forcibly Displacing Palestinians in the West Bank
SRINAGAR: The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) has raised alarm over what it described as a significant escalation in the forced displacement and land seizures of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem,...

Viewpoint: Longing for the days of 'bobbies on the beat'
We all need to stand up for right to protest It’s not clear exactly what E Shepherd (Viewpoint, June 27) is criticising about the pro-Palestine protest in Maidenhead: the right to peaceful protest or the Palestinian people themselves. The...

Hamas Says Israel is Using Gaza Aid Sites to Recruit Collaborators – Report
Oxycodone was discovered in aid shipments sent to Gaza. (Photo: via QNN) A Hamas official reportedly said the movement has “thwarted attempts” by the Israeli army to smuggle spy equipment to collaborators to carry out dangerous security missions....

War, politics and religion shape wildlife evolution in cities
People often consider evolution to be a process that occurs in nature in the background of human society. But evolution is not separate from human beings. In fact, human cultural practices can influence evolution in wildlife. This influence is...

How can the BBC get Israel and Gaza so wrong so often?
It’s hard to know what more the BBC could have done for Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, the film it commissioned but then, after a long time spent within dangerously close proximity of its own fundament, decided it couldn’t actually broadcast. These...

Pro-Palestine acts face BBC censure after Glastonbury row
The BBC is to stop broadcasting or streaming live performances by acts they consider to be “high risk” after the fallout from its Glastonbury coverage during which punk-rap duo Bob Vylan led anti-Israel chants on stage. It could result in artists...

GAZA: Starvation or Gunfire – This is Not a Humanitarian Response
NGOs call for immediate action to end the deadly Israeli distribution scheme (including the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) in Gaza, revert to the existing UN-led coordination mechanisms, and lift the Israeli government’s blockade on aid...