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2025-09-06 20:13
By Wesam Bahrani
Israelis make mass arrests of Palestinian civilians as leverage
TEHRAN – Investigation reveals the majority of Palestinians kidnapped after October 2023 are civilians with no affiliation to Hamas or any resistance movement.
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2025-09-06 20:12
Over 150 officials urge protection of Sumud humanitarian flotilla to Gaza
Over 150 current and former elected officials from around the world have issued “a call for immediate action to ensure humanitarian access to Gaza and to end the genocide of the Palestinian people.”
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2025-09-06 19:18
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Will the Lebanese government continue on the path of rationality?
BEIRUT — In Lebanon’s political history, no cabinet session has garnered as much international and Arab attention as the one on September 5th that will probably shape Lebanon’s future. It will determine whether the country is heading toward a settlement, chaos, or somewhere in between, like the current situation.
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2025-09-06 19:07
By staff writer
Israel’s strikes on Gaza City towers underscore policy of forced displacement
TEHRAN – More than 700 days into Israel’s war on Gaza, Palestinian civilians continue to bear the brunt of relentless airstrikes, siege, and starvation.
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2025-09-06 19:02
Protesters in Santos rally against steel exports to Israel
Activists in the Brazilian port city of Santos staged a sit-in on Friday, urging authorities to halt steel shipments to Israel due to their potential use in military industries.
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2025-09-06 14:50
Uruguay’s Anti-Imperialist Committee condemns US military buildup near Venezuela
The Uruguayan Anti-Imperialist Committee for Solidarity with Cuba and the Peoples of the World has condemned the deployment of more than 4,500 U.S. Marines in the Caribbean, accompanied by the missile cruiser USS Lake Erie, the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Newport News, and other warships reportedly moving toward Venezuelan waters.
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2025-09-05 20:09
By Lucia Hubinská
Slovak PM in China: Building partnerships for a fairer global future
PRETORIA – Robert Fico has once again put Slovakia under the international spotlight. While other EU leaders stayed home, the Slovak prime minister travelled to Beijing for China’s commemoration of the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism in Asia. There, he was the only EU head of government standing alongside Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
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2025-09-05 19:47
‘Sumud’ flotilla heads for Gaza with over 50 vessels despite Israeli threats
The Global Sumud Flotilla — named for the Arabic word meaning steadfastness, a principle of unyielding resistance — is pressing across the Mediterranean toward Tunisia, part of a bid to break Israel’s 18-year naval blockade of Gaza.
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2025-09-05 19:31
By staff writer
Shifting US political landscape threatens Israel’s traditional congressional influence
TEHRAN - In late August 2025, Donald Trump gave an interview to the Daily Caller, which stirred great debate regarding shifts in the political U.S. support for Israel and the diminution in power of the American pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. Congress.
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2025-09-05 18:56
By Wesam Bahrani
Gaza genocide passes 700 days
TEHRAN – As the Gaza genocide surpasses 700 days, Hamas has accused the Israeli prime minister of deliberately sabotaging mediation efforts.
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2025-09-05 18:26
By Sondoss Al Asaad
The lie of “arms exclusivity” to uproot the resistance!
BEIRUT— On Friday, Hezbollah-aligned Labor Minister Mohammad Haidar told local media before the Lebanese cabinet’s session had concluded that "any decision taken to disarm Hezbollah in the absence of Shia ministers would be null and void, as it would be considered in contravention of Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system."
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2025-09-05 18:03
By Shahrokh Saei
‘Mouthpiece of IDF butchers’: Israeli president faces arrest calls ahead of UK visit
TEHRAN – Israeli President Isaac Herzog is poised to visit the UK this week, but his arrival has stirred a political storm. Some MPs are demanding his arrest, accusing him of backing Israel’s military operations in Gaza and calling him the “mouthpiece of IDF butchers.”
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2025-09-05 17:06
US forces killed North Korean civilians in failed 2019 spy mission: NYT
A newly revealed U.S. military operation in North Korea in early 2019 ended in failure and the deaths of local civilians, raising questions about Washington’s credibility during a period of high-stakes diplomacy.
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2025-09-05 15:05
Scottish Parliament votes for full boycott of Israel, citing Gaza genocide
In a landmark move, the Scottish Parliament has voted to impose a full boycott of Israel and companies linked to its military operations.
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2025-09-05 15:05
Illegal Israeli settlers injure 20 Palestinians in West Bank village attack
Around 20 Palestinians were injured early Friday when illegal Israeli settlers attacked the village of Khillet al-Daba in the southern occupied West Bank, Anadolu reported, citing local sources.
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2025-09-05 15:05
Israeli strikes devastate Gaza City as families flee westward
Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn Friday have killed dozens of Palestinians, including children, according to medical sources cited by Al Jazeera.
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2025-09-03 19:22
China holds massive V-Day parade, President Xi hails 'unstoppable' national rejuvenation
China held a massive military parade in central Beijing on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of its victory in World War II, pledging the country's commitment to peaceful development in a world still fraught with turbulence and uncertainties, Xinhua reported.
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2025-09-03 18:29
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Will the government drag Lebanon toward anarchy on Friday?
BEIRUT—Lebanon will open a new stage in the conflict over the Resistance’s weapons next week despite Israel’s clear rejection of US envoy Thomas Barrack’s proposal, which originally aimed to impose security and military control, not just political control, over Lebanon.
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2025/09/03
By Kleybergel González, Venezuelan journalist from FuserNews
Venezuela stands unyielding against US aggression: Sovereignty is non-negotiable
CARACAS – In recent weeks, the United States has intensified its policy of maximum military pressure against the government and people of Venezuela by sending eight warships and a nuclear submarine to Caribbean waters near the Venezuelan coast.
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2025/09/03
By Casey O. Jerson (BSc.)
War scars and peace dreams: Why the Caribbean and Latin America seek to remain a war-free zone
CASTRIES – When Liu Yuanyuan shared her grandfather’s story in CGTN’s World War II: Remembered, Reimagined, Retold, she spoke of wounds that outlived the battlefield. Her grandfather, a soldier in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, carried memories of hiding in trees, eating bark to survive, and never seeing his parents in Shandong again. The trauma extended beyond 1945, woven into family stories and even shaping the choices of new generations.
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2025-09-03 18:03
US claims it struck drug-carrying vessel that left Venezuela
President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela and was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang, AP reported.
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2025-09-03 18:03
By Wesam Bahrani
Yemen targets Israeli General Staff
TEHRAN – Yemeni Armed Forces carried out five precision military operations using drones and cruise missiles against Israeli targets.
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2025/09/03
By Professor Hossein Askari
American morality descending into the abyss with a heavy price to pay
PORTLAND - Recall the horrors of the indigenous people of South Africa. In 1652 Dutch settlers along with German and French Huguenot followers established what later became the Boer Republic—a horrific land where the native black population was subjugated under a system of racial segregation, commonly referred to as apartheid.
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2025-09-02 20:48
By Shahrokh Saei
US strategy in Venezuela stirs regional alarm, echoes Bolton’s coup revelations
TEHRAN – The recent deployment of United States military forces in the waters off Venezuela has reignited concerns over Washington’s long history of interventions and regime-change policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The move comes amid US claims that the deployment is intended to combat threats from regional drug cartels.
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2025-09-02 20:10
By Garsha Vazirian
Over 250 media outlets unite as Israel makes Gaza’s journalists its frontline targets
TEHRAN – On September 1, more than 250 news outlets in over 70 countries staged a coordinated blackout—blank front pages, darkened homepages, and interrupted broadcasts—in an unprecedented act of solidarity.
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2025-09-02 19:24
By Lucia Hubinská
BRICS Summer School opens with calls for alternative narratives
JOHANNESBURG – The first day of the BRICS Summer School unfolded with a sense of urgency in the city of Johannesburg in South Africa. Scholars and young leaders from across the Global South gathered to discuss alternative narratives in international relations, the deepening of intra-BRICS cooperation, and the role of youth in shaping the future of this rapidly evolving bloc.
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2025-09-02 19:13
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanon’s future, one year after the US–led Israeli aggression
BEIRUT—Writing in The Telegraph, former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has said “Hezbollah shows no signs of giving up. And, for well or ill, the UN’s longstanding Lebanon peacekeeping mission, UNIFIL, has such a tarnished reputation for ineffectiveness that its mandate will be ended at the end of 2026.”
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2025-09-02 19:13
President Xi: China-Russia relationship model of major-country ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that the China-Russia relationship has become an example of major-country ties, featuring permanent good-neighborly friendship, comprehensive strategic coordination and mutually beneficial cooperation, CGTN reported.
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2025-09-02 16:38
By Wesam Bahrani
Israeli vehicles struck in Gaza City
TEHRAN – The Palestinian resistance continues its operations against the Israeli occupation’s infantry trying to invade Gaza City via the Zeitoun neighborhood.
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2025-09-02 16:37
Death toll surpasses 1,400 as Afghanistan reels from quake
A powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan just past midnight on Sunday, triggering one of the deadliest disasters in recent memory.