Indonesian authorities describe Steven Lyons as the leader of ‘a large-scale transnational criminal organisation involved in narcotics trafficking and money laundering’
Even though the chances of the law being implemented are low, the damage it has already caused cannot be overstated: it brings the Kahanist revolution in Israeli society to a peak
The BBC has been racked by 48 hours of 'shock' and 'utter confusion'. On Monday it was announced that Scott Mills, who had worked at the corporation for almost three decades, had been sacked.
Donald Trump has told America's allies to fight their own battles as he warned he was prepared to walk away from the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.
What I found is how a mutual hatred for the West, imperialism, and Israel have coalesced around Palestine—a cause for which its devout followers are prepared to do anything. Let me explain.
Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.
Current time inTehran2:35 a.m. April 1Tel Aviv2:05 a.m.
A fundamental component in the definition of a state is that it must be an entity bounded by recognized borders. Israel doesn't meet this definition.
An Iranian drone hit a Kuwaiti oil tanker in waters off the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai, sparking a blaze that was later put out, the Dubai Media Office said.
The major ruling casts doubt on similar prohibitions in 30 states. It is the latest in a string of decisions by the high court rolling back protections for LGBTQ+ people.
In the space of a week, two young women linked to Palestine Action have been arrested in the UK.
An incident at the end of the Duke-UConn game reminded Black people of something we already know: we’re treated differently in AmericaThe was one for the ages. A last-second game winner from freshman Braylon Mullins took down the top-seeded Blue Devils, who at one point had led by 19 points. It is a moment that will be replayed over and over for years to come.However, something strange happened after Mullins’s shot. UConn’s head coach Dan Hurley approached referee Roger Ayers and while glaring into his eyes. It wasn’t quite the “head-butt” some called it on social media but it was an eye-catching scene. For his part, the incident was “absolutely nothing” but it wouldn’t have been unusual for Hurley to be given a technical foul, which would have given Duke free throws and a chance to win the game with 0.4 seconds left.
Rights groups condemn Israel's new law, which will primarily apply to Palestinians, as discriminatory.
The president and the Republican Party deserve to pay a political price for the pardons.
Drew Cukor wanted to prevent US forces from accidentally killing civilians. It’s already going wrong The post first appeared on .
Senior security sources say government- and religious-backed settler violence is straining the IDF, with attacks often carried out using official military weapons; criticism within the IDF targets the army chief for issuing only condemnations
Settler attacks, East Jerusalem evictions, shuttering of sacred sites, as Israeli authorities assert control.
The US and Iran traded blows late on Monday, as Iranian drones hit a huge Kuwaiti oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, while the Americans bombarded an Iranian ammunition depot.
The Wall Street Journal reported Trump had told aides he is willing to end the military campaign even if the strait remains largely closed and leave a complex operation to reopen it for a later date.
Scotland Yard has also confirmed the Crown Prosecution Service rejected the case due to a lack of evidence and the investigation into the broadcaster was closed in 2019.
An 11-year-old is reported to have been killed in an air strike while manning a checkpoint in Tehran.
Also, a judge halts construction on the White House ballroom. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
Ever since Iran enforced the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz at the start of the war in the Middle East, the world has been plunged into the worst oil crisis in history.
A Los Angeles jury just confirmed the damage caused by social media. But as Britain rolls out age-verification and online surveillance laws, the proposed fixes risk a different kind of harm.
The new law, passed on Monday, was pushed hard by the far-right and Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Italy has risked provoking Donald Trump's wrath after US bombers were denied access to its Sigonella air base in Sicily last week.
GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: The man had been found guilty of traveling to meet a minor following a one-day trial last April but the judge did not remand him to custody despite his conviction.
PAKISTAN is in the diplomatic spotlight for its efforts to mediate in the US-Iran war. While this role could be beneficial in resolving the conflict, it also presents significant risks. Mediation between the aggressor and aggrieved has its inherent pitfalls. The task becomes more challenging when one party possesses far greater power and resources. In such cases, the weaker party may feel pressured to accept terms that are not in their best interest.
When a nasty stench began seeping through a quiet Colorado neighborhood, no one could have imagined the horrifying secret lurking behind the doors of a family-run funeral home.
Bunker-buster bombs trigger massive secondary explosions at a mountainous area near Isfahan overnight.
Defence Minister Israel Katz also says houses in Lebanese villages near the Israeli border will be demolished.
Defence minister outlines plans to destroy all homes and villages in area ‘in accordance with the model in Gaza’Israel says it will occupy swathes of south Lebanon and destroy the homes along the border to prevent the return of about 600,000 residents, prompting concerns of long-term forced displacement.The defence minister, Israel Katz, said that when fighting with Hezbollah ended, Israel would occupy the area under the Litani River, about 19 miles from the Israel-Lebanon border, as part of its so-called buffer zone inside southern Lebanon.
We might forgive Zack Polanski for equivocating over how he would have voted on the bungled motion at the Green Party’s spring conference that was set to declare Zionism racist. He was born, as I was, in the decade after that toxic formula was adopted by the United Nations.
Rights groups have warned that recruiting children for roles relating to conflict could amount to a war crime
Olympic president Kirsty Coventry was elected to the role one year ago "This is a question where there is no one-size-fits-all solution. It differs from sport to sport." The words of former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach in July 2021, when claiming that sex eligibility criteria should be left to each individual sport to determine.
The civil rights icon had a history of sexually abusing women and girls, which the Times reporters Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes spent five years investigating. They spoke to “The Daily” about how they uncovered the story.
Approving the law devalues human life, serves terror organizations, and underscores Israel's abandonment of liberal values, revealing a reactionary regime. Any court that approves it is unfit to sit in judgment
Critics say president is locking into 20th-century energy systems even as his ‘bet’ on oil and gas ‘isn’t going so well’By attacking Iran and threatening to seize its oil while taking extraordinary measures to block clean energy back in the US, Donald Trump has inadvertently highlighted the dangerous volatility of the fossil fuel era, critics say.The US and Israel’s bombardment of Iran and southern Lebanon has caused a humanitarian and , with threats of further escalation set to add to these casualties as well as add more planet-heating emissions and destroy drinking water supplies.
Civil society joins protests as EU voices express 'great concern' about Israel's law targeting Palestinian prisoners.
Opposition lawmakers, rights advocates and some foreign governments condemned the law as discriminatory. Israelis in the territory are tried in different courts.
The US has struck a large Iranian ammunition depot with 2,000lb (907kg) bunker buster bombs. Donald Trump shared footage of the large-scale attack, which showed primary and secondary explosions in the city of Isfahan, a central hub for Iran’s military and nuclear infrastructure.
Baroness Anne Longfield says her review will examine questions that previous inquiries "chose not to address" as she launches its terms of reference.
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Secretary of State Rubio said US war objectives would be achieved in 'weeks'.
No home in Balochistan is safe and enforced disappearances are widespread. Detaining me and other rights activists only confirms the justice of our causeIt’s 9pm and I’m sitting alone in my cell in block nine as I write these lines. I’ve been in solitary confinement for a year now. In fact, I turned 30 here.The silence has a weight to it, something that presses in on you the longer you sit with it.
Many will recognise their own experiences of digital abuse in Collien Fernandes’s allegations – the sense that technology offers perps both tools and coverSome stories that unfold in real life would read like the plot of a bad crime novel if you wrote them down. Too obvious, too contrived, almost lazy in their cruelty. For example, this one: a woman spends years trying to identify the person who has allegedly been violating her online, only to eventually conclude that it was her husband all along.This is how the case of Germany’s once-favourite celebrity couple Collien Fernandes and Christian Ulmen now . Fernandes, TV presenter, actor and author, has been a familiar face in mainstream entertainment for more than two decades. Ulmen, an actor, producer and former MTV presenter, is long associated with a certain kind of ironic, self-aware masculinity. The two married in 2011, had a daughter, and cultivated the image of a modern, witty supercouple, working together on series and advertisements, in which they playfully talked about their seemingly average marriage for comedic effect. Until that image fractured.
Two more US lab employees have been linked to the disturbing pattern of deaths and disappearances around America.
Is Donald Trump giving up? In a post on his Truth Social network on Monday, the US president suggested that he would settle for destroying Iran’s civilian infrastructure if talks failed to open the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway on which 20 per cent of the world’s oil and gas depends.
The dismemberment of Unilever, under the watchful eye of activist investor Nelson Peltz, cannot be greeted with equanimity.
Britain no longer has a First World health service. The rationing of hospital referrals is just the latest attempt by a broken state to cover it up, but the painful reality is experienced by millions.