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By Alex MacDonald Published date: 15 November 2025 15:42 GMT Last update: ~1100 ET

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Harry Pettit, the former Assistant Professor of Human Geography at Radboud University, the Netherlands, said any speech in support of the Palestinian resistance has been criminalized in Western academic circles.

Three Palestinian teenagers released in a recent prisoner exchange were abducted by Israeli soldiers while seeking aid and tortured in custody, a new report has revealed.

COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate, released by the US House Oversight Committee on November 12, 2025, into an easily searchable repository.

South Africa’s intelligence services are investigating who was behind a chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg with more than 150 Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza who did not have proper travel documents and were held onboard on the tarmac for around 12 hours as a result, the country’s president said Friday.

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Russia, China, and some Arab states oppose the proposal, citing concerns about a yet-to-be-established board temporarily governing the strip and the absence of any transitional role for the Palestinian Authority.

Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces have been providing smuggled fuel to the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the request the United Arab Emirates, a report by US-based watchdog The Sentry said on Thursday.

Heavy rains flood tents of displaced Palestinians in Gaza. Israel returns the bodies of 15 Palestinian captives to Gaza one day after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad return the body of an Israeli captive. The second revision of a U.S. ceasefire draft resolution at the UN Security Council is shut down by Russian and Chinese objections over the “Board of Peace,” and Moscow submits its own draft with a more limited “international stabilization force” and no “supervisory” board. Two Palestinian teenagers fatally shot by Israeli troops in the West Bank. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announces “Operation Southern Spear” aimed at targeting “narco-terrorists” in the Western Hemisphere. New State Department directive could deny foreigners visas to U.S. for certain medical conditions, such as diabetes or obesity, or a lack of economic resources. Starbucks workers go on strike nationwide. Utilities regulators look to cash out after the end of their term. Global carbon emissions are set to hit a record 38.1 billion metric tons this year. Saudi Arabia intends to do business with Lebanon again. Cambodia evacuates hundreds along its border with Thailand. U.S. declares four European anti-fascist groups “international terrorist organizations.”

The Islamic Republic of Iran on Friday commandeered and diverted into Iranian territorial waters an oil tanker sailing under the flag of the Marshall Islands through the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said. The incident is the first such seizure in months in the strategic waterway.

Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s.

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has reportedly deployed foreign Takfiri fighters from northern Syria to the border with Lebanon, sparking renewed concern over the group’s destabilizing activities and growing presence in the region.

Mr. al-Shara was once imprisoned by U.S. forces in Iraq, and then went on to found the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda. He had a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head until December of last year, shortly after he led a rebel offensive that ousted Syria’s longtime dictator, Bashar al-Assad.

To many in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city, Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov embodied the old, corrupt politics — with his history of suspected criminal links and corruption cases and a political past tied to a pro-Kremlin party. In ousting him, Mr. Zelensky accused him of holding Russian citizenship.

Israeli military kills five in repeated violations of the Gaza ceasefire. Six Palestinian boys disappear in Gaza. 90 Palestinian medical patients to be deported from the West Bank back to Gaza, despite its devastated health care system. Israeli forces arrest over 40 Palestinians overnight in West Bank raids. Settlers torch and deface a mosque in the central West Bank village of Deir Istiya. Trump signs legislation to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. House lawmakers release approximately 20,000 files related to financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, revealing deep connections to U.S. elites, including President Trump, Larry Summers, Steve Bannon, former White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, and Peter Thiel. President Trump makes a concerted effort to stifle Republican participation in any further release of the files. The Trump administration to cut housing grants and aggressively target homeless populations. G7 meets in Ontario, Canada. Israel strikes Tyre in southern Lebanon. India’s RSS sets up a lobby in the United States. Maduro says his country is preparing for guerrilla warfare against the U.S. Ukraine strikes infrastructure inside of Russia and inside of Zaporizhzhia, where Russian troops have been advancing in recent weeks.

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Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) said several individuals had formed a “criminal gang” and built “a large-scale corruption scheme to influence strategic enterprises in the public sector, in particular Energoatom”, which is the country’s nuclear energy agency. The bureau estimated that approximately £76m passed through the scheme.

NEW YORK, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. gathered intelligence last year of Israeli officials discussing how their soldiers had sent Palestinians into Gaza tunnels the Israelis believed were potentially lined with explosives, according to two former U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Israel continues to attack Gaza, with at least three airstrikes on Gaza on Wednesday. The UN says Israel is blocking vaccines and baby bottles. More than 1,500 buildings beyond the “yellow line” have been destroyed. Settlers set fire to vehicles, including dairy trucks, in West Bank villages. Israel’s Parliament advances the “Al Jazeera Law” aimed at curtailing access for unfavorable journalism in its territories. A 13-year-old boy dies one month after being hospitalized in an Israeli tear gas attack on olive harvest. The U.S. House is set to vote on a bill to reopen the government, restore some funding, jobs, and pay. A major corporate landlord in the U.S. is owned by a large Israeli company that profits from West Bank settlements. Israel is building a massive concrete wall kilometers inside of Lebanon. The USS Gerald R. Ford arrives in the Caribbean, while the UK and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro adjust their intelligence sharing with an increasingly belligerent United States. Russia pushes further into eastern Ukraine. Six Maoist rebels were killed in India as the government tries to end the Naxalite insurgency. A UN migrant organization says it is becoming unable to deliver aid in North Darfur.

The US navy has announced that the USS Gerald R Ford, regarded as the world’s newest and largest aircraft carrier, has entered the area of responsibility of the US Southern Command, which covers Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Testimonies documented by PCHR’s lawyers and field researchers contain harrowing testimonies relating to cases of rape perpetrated by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) against Palestinian civilians, including women, who were arrested from different areas across the Gaza Strip over the past two years.

An Israeli military intelligence officer stayed at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan apartment on at least three occasions—including once, in February 2013, while working as a senior aide to then-Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak.

Tras el paso del huracán Melissa, llamados de emergencia para recaudar fondos de ayuda médica para Cuba

Israel kills three Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours. Over 6,000 amputation cases registered in Gaza, a quarter of them children. The Israeli militarized “yellow line” potentially becomes a de facto border within Gaza. The U.S. shares a revised draft of its peace plan with the UN. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights releases a report that details systematic sexual abuse in Israeli prisons. Ben-Gvir hands out candy after the Knesset advances a death penalty bill. Former Al-Qaeda affiliate and current Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa visits the White House. ICE agents pepper-spray a one-year-old in Cicero. New York City Councilman Chi Ossé prepares to run against Hakeem Jeffries. Departing NYC Mayor Eric Adams is set to make his third trip to Israel this week. Pakistan’s military takeover of the government passes its senate. Thailand suspends its ceasefire with Cambodia. Clashes in Nigeria’s northeast kill 200. Russia takes three more villages in Ukraine. At least 12 killed in car bomb outside judicial complex in Islamabad. At least 13 killed in car bomb near metro station in New Delhi.

In a new development that has sparked concerns over Lebanese sovereignty, the ‘Israeli’ army has commenced construction of a concrete wall behind the Blue Line, the internationally recognized border with Lebanon.

The Israeli parliament (Knesset) on Monday evening approved, in its first reading, a bill allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners. The proposal was submitted by Knesset member Limor Son Har-Melech of the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party.

Fifteen thousand workers went on strike at a major gas field in Iran last week, demanding improved wages and working conditions at the economically critical South Pars field. Earlier this month, the Association of Gas Industry Workers’ Unions of Bushehr Province—the largest labor organization representing the workers of Iran’s gas refineries at South Pars—announced a weekly work stoppage over longstanding grievances at the site.

Iran is ramping up its missile production with the explicit goal of being able to fire 2,000 missiles at once in any future confrontation with ‘Israel’, aiming to overwhelm the country’s advanced defense systems, as reported by The New York Times.

Former IDF military advocate general Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who was released to house arrest last week after being detained over the Sde Teiman video leak, was hospitalized on Sunday morning after medics were called to her home over what was later confirmed to have been a suicide attempt.

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Entrevista con el líder cubano Ernesto Limia Díaz

Entrevista con el líder cubano Ernesto Limia Díaz

Interview with Cuban Leader Ernesto Limia Díaz Nov 9, 2025

Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.

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Often celebrated as a pioneer of genetics alongside Francis Crick, racist and sexist remarks tarnished his reputation in later years.

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Hamas issued a statement Friday denouncing Kazakhstan’s recent announcement to join the so-called “Abraham Accords” and enhance relations with ‘Israel’.

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Israel’s defense chief orders the Israeli military to “destroy and annihilate” all tunnels in Gaza used by Hamas, as daily air strikes and demolitions continue. U.S. President Donald Trump claims an international stabilization force will enter Gaza “very soon.” Israeli forces shoot dead two Palestinians in the village of al-Judeira. October marked the highest monthly number of recorded Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians since the UN began keeping track in 2006. Susan Collins and Todd Young fake out the majority of Americans hopeful for the passage of a War Powers resolution to curb Trump’s ambitions on Venezuela, and vote “no” after indicating their concerns with the Executive Branch. Judge orders Trump to release all SNAP funding. Elon Musk gets 1 trillion dollars, theoretically. Tucker Carlson calls Lindsey Graham a “sick fuck.” OpenAI begins extending its hand for a taxpayer bailout, and the U.S. government begins to deputize immigration enforcement. Israel attacks Lebanon with wave of airstrikes in one of its biggest post-ceasefire escalations. U.S. strikes 18th vessel in the Carribean. Kazakhstan joins the Abraham Accords. Sudan ceasefire accepted by the RSF, but remains unlikely. Tigrayan militants enter Ethiopia’s Afar region, and Nigeria’s military fights jihadists in its northeast. Peru bans Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum from entering the country. Cambodia can buy American weapons again.

Someone needs to bring the US to heel immediately.