World

Israeli troops arrest Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi in West Bank

Israeli troops arrested a Palestinian activist, regarded in the occupied West Bank as a hero since she was a teenager.

November 8, 2023 10:34 am
 

World

Barcelona dockers refuse to handle military material amid Gaza war

The Barcelona port stevedores’ union has refused to load and unload any military material.

November 8, 2023 9:41 am
 

World

Zelenskiy calls for Ukrainian unity after rift with top general

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called on Ukrainians to remain united, days after a rift emerged between his office and the country’s commander-in-chief as the war with Russia grinds on.

November 8, 2023 7:40 am
 

World

Israel says troops push into heart of Gaza City

Israel said its forces were pushing deep into Gaza City, where residents said tanks were positioned on the outskirts for a potential storming of Gaza’s urban heartland.

November 8, 2023 6:30 am
 

World

Israeli forces cut off north Gaza to isolate Hamas as advance on urban center looms

The Israeli army severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with airstrikes, preparing for expected ground battles with Hamas militants in Gaza’s largest city and an even bloodier phase of the month-old war.

November 7, 2023 4:46 pm
 

World

Guns rights and domestic violence protections collide at US Supreme Court

When a New Orleans-based appeals court struck down a federal law aimed at protecting victims of domestic violence from firearms – a matter that the U.S. Supreme Court takes up on Tuesday – Phil Sorrells, the conservative gun-owning Tarrant County district attorney in Texas, disagreed.

November 7, 2023 3:15 pm
 

World

Trump tangles with judge, complains of treatment at NY fraud trial

Donald Trump complained of unfair treatment in defiant and rambling testimony on the witness stand at the civil fraud trial about his New York business on Monday, prompting the judge at one point to threaten to cut his testimony short.

November 7, 2023 2:13 pm
 

World

UN says Gaza war must stop as reported death toll tops 10,000

Gaza is becoming a “graveyard for children”, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said.

November 7, 2023 1:14 pm
 

Pacific Islands

Breaking the cycle after another climate fund setback

The PIF Leaders’ Meeting is an important chance to jolt the world into action on a climate Loss and Damage Fund after
decades of fighting for justice.

November 7, 2023 12:11 pm
 

Pacific Islands

Pacific security: whose strategy is it?

The Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting this week takes place amid a changing dynamic of security and development in the region.

November 7, 2023 10:51 am
 

Pacific Islands

Pacific wrestles with the great China-US divide

Pacific Islands Forum members face challenging conversations about the prickly US-China relationship and its effect
on the region.

November 7, 2023 9:49 am
 

World

Francophonie - The XIXth Summit of La Francophonie in France under the banner of creation, innovation and entrepreneurship in French

At the close of the 44th Ministerial Conference of La Francophonie (CMF), held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 4 and 5 November 2023, France was awarded the presidency of the CMF by Tunisia for the next two years, in its capacity as host country of the XIXth Summit of La Francophonie, to be held in October 2024.

November 7, 2023 8:21 am

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