A top Iranian diplomat penned a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres last week condemning U.S. President Donald Trump’s bellicose language about using force against Tehran over its nuclear program that Iran insists is for non-military use.
South Africa’s top diplomat said in an interview last week that there is “no chance” his country backs down from its genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice—even with new actions taken by the Trump administration to bully the country into submission to protect Tel Aviv from facing justice over its actions in Gaza.
U.S. President Donald Trump last week remained resolute on his proposal to take Gaza despite international law and indicated that Washington can just swoop in and claim the ruined enclave.
Totally absent from the U.S. and most of the Western media who support the Israel War, satellite images viewed by Al Jazeera show that the Israeli military continues to destroy homes inside Gaza, despite the ceasefire and have constructed new fortifications along the Rafah crossing and in the northern outskirts of the city.
Despite artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek’s revolutionary claims about its software that sparked a short-lived tech bloodbath on Wall Street last month, options traders are eagerly wagering that Amazon, Apple, and other megatech companies will see their share prices keep rising into the future.
India’s government is cutting taxes and the central bank is lowering its key interest rate for the first time since 2020 in an attempt to revive the country’s sluggish economy.
The Bank of England (BoE) has cut its 2025 growth forecast in half, projecting a 0.75-percent expansion of the U.K.’s GDP this year, not the 1.5 percent it had forecast earlier.
In 2024, bankruptcies in Canada jumped 12.1 percent from their 2023 number to reach their highest in 15 years, data from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy shows.
Israel has intensified its crackdown in the West Bank that has resulted in the displacement of at least 26,000 Palestinians—claiming that these operations have targeted terror cells within the territory.
U.S. President Donald Trump has angered Arabs and even some allies with his recent proposals to force Gazans out of the wrecked enclave to make way for a major development project built on the remains of the Palestinians killed by Israel’s 15-month-long genocide.