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Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager in fresh occupied West Bank raid
Israeli military forces have killed a Palestinian teenager in the northern sector of the West Bank amid simmering tensions across the occupied territory and the Tel Aviv regime’s ongoing genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip. The official Palestinian WAFA news agency, citing Palestine’s ministry of health, reported that Israeli forces stormed the town of Kafr Malik, located 10 miles...
Netherlands returns colonial loot to Nigeria
The Netherlands has returned 119 artifacts to Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a historic bell. They were looted from the West African country more than a century ago. The items, known as the Benin Bronzes, were handed over during an official ceremony at the National Museum in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, on June 21. The artifacts...
Cambodia accuses Thailand of escalating tensions with new land crossing restrictions
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Cambodia’s government on June 24 accused Thailand of escalating border tensions by imposing new restrictions that have blocked almost all land crossings, especially for tourists heading into Cambodia. Relations between the neighbors have deteriorated following an armed confrontation on May 28 in which one Cambodian soldier was killed in a relatively small, contested territory along their border. While the two sides...
War profiteers benefit as nuclear weapons spending soared above $100B last year
by Brett Wilkins - CommonDream.org The world’s nine nuclear-armed nations spent more than $100 billion on their atomic arsenals last year—up 11% from 2023—with the United States accounting for both the largest share and biggest increase in expenditures, a report published June 13 by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons reveals. The new ICAN analysis identifies a $9.9 billion increase in global...
Myanmar on the ‘path to self-destruction’ if violence does not end
Nearly three months after a catastrophic earthquake struck Myanmar, the country continues to grapple with its aftermath alongside the brutal civil war, which has devastated the country since the February 2021 military coup. Since then, “there has been no end to the violence, even though thousands have been killed and thousands more injured,” said UN Special Envoy to Myanmar, Julie Bishop,...
Calls for justice persist eight years after Grenfell fire
Marking eight years since the Grenfell Tower fire, communities and workers continue to demand justice and an end to the austerity policies that fueled the tragedy by Ana Vračar - The Peoples Dispatch Eight years ago, on June 14, 2017, Grenfell Tower in West London caught fire, becoming one of the most devastating examples of how neoliberal policies cost lives. Seventy-two people—many...
Cuban vice-president attends Brazil-Caribbean Summit
BRASILIA, Brazil—Brazilian Political Bureau member and Vice-President of the Republic Salvador Valdés Mesa arrived in the capital of the South American giant at the head of the official delegation of the largest island in the Greater Antilles that will attend the Brazil-Caribbean Summit, to be held June 13 in this city. Upon his arrival at Brasilia’s Joselinho Kubisheck International Airport,...
Egyptian government prevents ‘Global March to Gaza’ from reaching Rafah border crossing
Multiple news sites, including Al Jazeera and Newsweek, reported that thousands of international pro-Palestine activists had been detained and prevented from reaching Egypt’s Rafah border crossing during the “Global March to Gaza” event, allegedly over security concerns. Scenes of demonstrators being forcefully dispersed and detained included footage of Duffel Zwelivelile Mandela, the grandson of late anti-apartheid leader and former South...
Caribbean nations push back on U.S. pressure to stop participation in Cuba’s medical program
by Starla Muhammad and Nisa Islam Muhammad Several Caribbean countries are taking exception to U.S. pressure on them about remittance payments for the widely lauded Cuba medical assistance humanitarian program. Cuba vehemently denies the accusations being leveled by the U.S. Washington contends that the payment system. That pays the medics a portion and sends the remainder to Cuba was an...
Israeli attacks on Gaza’s schools, cultural sites are war crimes: UN
UN experts in a report have warned that destruction of over 90% of Gaza’s educational facilities and more than half of its religious and cultural sites by Israeli forces in besieged Gaza amounts to war crimes and the crime against humanity of “extermination.” In a report, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian Territory said on June 5...