19 h. ago Gaza has become journalism’s graveyard. Killing journalists is killing the truth | Anthony Bellanger

If we accept that reporters die in Gaza, we pave the way for other regimes to consider the murder of journalists a normal instrument of warHistory will only be kind to witnesses. In Gaza, it will remember the name of Anas al-Sharif, a young Al Jazeera reporter killed on 10 August 2025. It will also remember the 222 other Palestinian journalists murdered in the past two years by the Israeli army, according to the International Federation of Journalists’ own monitoring. But those who chose to eliminate these media workers will remain condemned forever.For 24 long months now, Gaza has become the most dangerous place in the world to practise our profession. Israel prohibits foreign journalists from entering the territory, so the truth relies exclusively on Palestinian reporters – almost all of whom are members of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, affiliated to the IFJ. Too often they work without protection and without refuge for their families. And all too often, they are directl...

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53 h. ago Gaza flotilla – live: Greta Thunberg’s aid vessel declares emergency as it expects Israeli interception imminently

Activists fear a heavy-handed encounter with Israeli forces in the Mediterranean Sea

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3 d. ago Trump defends troops in US cities after Hegseth decries military DEI efforts

President and defense chief delivered pair of incendiary speeches to a crowd of hundreds of generals and admiralsUS politics – latest updatesAt an address of assembled generals and admirals, Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, outlined changes to military policy and philosophy in a set of 10 directives meant to change organizational culture around fitness, race and gender, describing the previous state of military affairs as the “woke department.”Donald Trump followed Hegseth’s call to embrace the virtues of lethality as a doctrine with a suggestion buried in an hour-long campaign-style speech that the gathering of officers and senior enlisted advisers should consider targeting US cities and civilian populations as a training exercise. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago 'Keir Starmer has RATTLED his rivals but the biggest challenge is in 48 hours'

Keir Starmer's speech to the party faithful at the Labour conference went down a storm with flag-waving delegates - but will it see off his rivals for good?

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5 d. ago Zelenskyy condemns ‘vile’ and deadly Russian strikes on Ukraine; drones spotted over Danish military sites – Europe live

Twelve-year-old girl among those killed in Kyiv; unidentified drones spotted over Danish military bases on Saturday nightIn an address at the UN general assembly in New York on Saturday, Moscow’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned that “any aggression against my country will be met with a decisive response” but insisted Russia has no intention of attacking EU or Nato member states.In a wide-ranging speech, Lavrov said threats against Russia by western countries were becoming “increasingly common”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Greta Thunberg fires back at Donald Trump’s climate change claims

Greta Thunberg fired back at Donald Trump after the US president decried climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” in his address to the United Nations General Assembly this week.

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6 d. ago More than a narcissist’s rant, Trump’s UN address marked a disturbing turn towards a new world order | Julianne Schultz

Behind the US president’s speech lay the long-term logic of neoliberalism: winners and losers, racialism and a crude, exclusionary nationalismEleanor Roosevelt, Doc Evatt, Jessie Street, Dag Hammarskjöld and the other founders of the United Nations must be spinning in their graves.No one who believes that the world could be a better place thinks that the UN is perfect, but the language the US president used in his address to the general assembly offered no hope. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Dele Alli PAYS £6,000 to jeweller who called him out in furious rant

Ard Adz, a rapper turned jeweller who claims he was recently released from prison, aired his grievances in a video posted on his Instagram on Friday morning.

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7 d. ago Delegates storm out moments before Netanyahu begins UN assembly address, with the Israeli PM declaring western recognition of Palestine shows 'murdering Jews pays off'

Several delegates stormed out before the Israeli PM began a passionate defence of Israel's war in Gaza - declaring western recognition of Palestine shows 'murdering Jews pays off'.

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7 d. ago Delegates storm out of UN assembly as Netanyahu begins speech defending Israel's war in Gaza

As he spoke, unintelligible shouts echoed around the hall. The US delegation, which has backed Netanyahu in his campaign against Hamas, stayed put.

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7 d. ago Recognising statehood is the minimum – now the EU must protect Palestine with money

As Europe’s socialist leaders, we call for a trade deal and aid package for Palestine – along with sanctions on Israel to halt the genocideApplause rang out through the UN general assembly this month after it endorsed the so-called New York declaration on the revival of the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. Adopted by a large majority, 142 countries, this initiative from France and Saudi Arabia offers a rare glimmer of hope in one of the most devastating crises of our time.Separately, the conclusions of the UN commission of inquiry have echoed what human rights organisations and genocide experts have been warning for months: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. As the ground invasion of Gaza City intensifies, the international community has a legal and moral obligation to act. This includes the immediate imposition of sanctions on Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to halt war crimes.Pedro Sánchez is the president of the Socialist International, secretary general of PS...

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1 week ago 'Green scam': At UN, watched by drowning nations' leaders, Trump assails the ethos of climate change

In his address at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated renewable energy, international climate diplomacy, the science of global warming and other environmental issues

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1 week ago At UN, the president of Mongolia takes a moment to cheer the world's horses

U.N. General Assembly speeches address many facets of human existence

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1 week ago What Trump said about the UK, Germany, Brazil, Ukraine and Gaza during fiery UN General Assembly address

A combative Trump lashed out at EU immigration and energy policies, delivering remarks that are likely to cause controversy

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1 week ago The world according to Trump: You’re all ‘going to hell’ — and I’m your only hope

President let the insults fly in blistering UN General Assembly address as he tried to make global leaders accept his truth — that it's Trump’s world and they are just living in it, writes Andrew Feinberg

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1 week ago Donald Trump’s sharia law attack on Sadiq Khan outrages Labour MPs

Keir Starmer urged to take action over US president’s inflammatory speech to the UNKeir Starmer is facing demands from Labour MPs to reprimand Donald Trump’s administration after the US president falsely claimed London wanted to “go to sharia law” under its “terrible mayor”, Sadiq Khan.In an address to the UN general assembly, Trump said: “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed. Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump scolds world leaders and says ‘your countries are going to hell’ in blistering UN General Assembly address: Live updates

President addressed 80th UN General Assembly in New York at contentious moment for international relations

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1 week ago 'Your countries are going to hell': Trump's extraordinary address accuses UN of 'funding an assault' on West, rails against 'uncontrolled immigration' and predicts death of Europe

Donald Trump accused the United Nations of 'funding an assault' on the West through immigration during his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

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1 week ago Donald Trump takes aim at 'terrible mayor' Sadiq Khan: US president claims London 'wants Sharia law'

In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, US President Donald Trump claimed the UN was 'funding an assault on Western countries and their borders'.

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1 week ago Trump tells western leaders 'Your countries are being ruined by uncontrolled immigration' and accuses the UN of funding an 'assault on your borders'

Donald Trump accused the United Nations of 'funding an assault' on the West through immigration during his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

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