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The European Union has recently imposed sanctions on Abdelbasit Hamza, a Sudanese financier believed to have strong connections with Hamas. This action follows an investigation by CNN and the Israeli investigative platform Shorim, which revealed Hamza’s extensive business dealings in Europe, despite being previously sanctioned by the United States after the attacks on October 7. Hamza, who has denied any …

Hafiz Abdel Jabbar, the father of Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, a Palestinian-American teenager, has held the United States partly responsible for his son’s death due to its longstanding military support to Israel. Tawfic, born in Gretna, Louisiana, and residing in the West Bank since May 2023, was killed during an incident near Al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya, approximately 10 miles north of Ramallah. According …

Since October 7, the death toll in Gaza has risen to over 25,000, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health controlled by Hamas. In the last 24 hours alone, 178 people were killed and 293 were injured, leading to a cumulative total of 25,105 deaths and 62,681 injuries throughout the Gaza Strip during the ongoing conflict between Israel …

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced strong disapproval on Sunday regarding opposition to the concept of a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He emphasized that denying the Palestinian people’s right to statehood is unacceptable. In a social media post, Guterres stated, “The refusal to accept the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians and the denial of the right to statehood …

Advocacy organizations and critics of ex-President Donald Trump are striving to exclude him from the 2024 presidential race, citing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This amendment disqualifies public officials from holding office if they have engaged in insurrection. Colorado and Maine have interpreted this to apply to Trump due to his actions in trying to reverse the 2020 …

On Thursday, January 18th, Turkey celebrated a historic moment as its first astronaut, Alper Gezeravci, along with three European astronauts, embarked on a journey to the International Space Station (ISS). Launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the group traveled aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, propelled by a Falcon 9 rocket. News agency Reuters reported that …

On Friday, January 19th, actor Alec Baldwin was indicted by a grand jury on charges of involuntary manslaughter, relating to a tragic incident in 2021 on the set of the film ‘Rust’ in New Mexico. This development follows an FBI report on the gun involved in the incident, which became public months earlier. Baldwin’s defense team, comprising attorneys Luke Nikas …

In a stunning upset at the Australian Open, world number one Iga Swiatek was defeated in the third round by unseeded Czech teenager Linda Noskova. The highly anticipated match saw Swiatek, the Polish top seed, initially take the lead by winning the first set. However, in an unexpected turn of events, she was overcome by Noskova, ranked number 50 globally, …