US President Donald Trump on Friday said he will impose an additional 100% tariff on imports from China starting next month after Beijing announced tightened controls of rare earth exports. “It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive...
UNICEF Urges End to ‘War on Children’ as 2 Years of Gaza Genocide Kills and Maims 64,000+ Kids
After two years of US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza that’s left hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children dead, maimed, starved, sickened, and displaced and countless others traumatized for life, a key United Nations leader on Wednesday urged an immediate...
Wife of Man Aboard Venezuelan Ship Bombed by Trump Says Husband Was a Fisher
A woman who identified herself as the wife of one of the at least 17 people extrajudicially murdered by US military strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela said her slain husband was a fisher, contradicting the Trump administration’s claim that the vessels were...
‘Unprecedented Savagery’: Israel Advances Bill Allowing Execution of Palestinian Prisoners
A parliamentary committee in Israel on Sunday advanced legislation to allow the execution of Palestinians convicted of “racially or ideologically motivated” murders of Israelis, drawing condemnation from human rights defenders. The Knesset National Security Committee...
Italy’s Unions Lead General Strike for Gaza
Italian labor unions led a massive 24-hour general strike on Monday to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, with estimates of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rallying in dozens of cities across Italy. Protesters took to squares, streets, transport hubs,...
Probe Reveals Nearly 3,000 Gaza Aid-Seekers Killed by Israeli Forces
An investigation published Wednesday revealed that Israeli forces have killed nearly 3,000 Palestinian aid-seekers and wounded almost 20,000 others over 23 months of Israel’s US-backed genocidal annihilation of Gaza. The New Humanitarian‘s open-source investigation...
16 Nations Warn Israel Against Attacking Gaza-Bound Global Sumud Flotilla
The foreign ministers of 16 nations on Tuesday implored Israel to not attack the Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet of around 40 boats attempting to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to the embattled Gaza Strip, where Palestinians are suffering 22 months of...
‘We Took the Gloves Off’: Former Israeli Military Chief Admits 220,000 Gaza Casualties
Belying persistent efforts by Israel and its defenders to deny the staggering number of Palestinians killed during the 23-month Gaza genocide, the general who led the Israel Defense Forces during most of the war acknowledged this week that around 220,000 Palestinians...
‘No Red Carpet’ for Israel’s Herzog: UK Urged to Arrest ‘Genocide President’ in London
Thousands of people turned out in London Tuesday to call for the arrest of visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog—who is the subject of criminal complaints alleging incitement to genocide and crimes against humanity—and to denounce UK complicity in the annihilation...
Spain Announces Arms Embargo on Israel and Other Steps ‘to Stop the Genocide in Gaza’
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday announced a series of nine new measures – including a total arms embargo – aimed at pressuring the government of fugitive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "to stop the genocide in Gaza." Sánchez, who leads the...


