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Hamas said it would avenge the killing of Salah al-Bardawil, who was a senior member of the militant group’s political bureau.  “His blood, that of his wife and martyrs, will remain fueling the battle of liberation and independence,” Al Jazeera reported the group as saying. “The criminal enemy will not break our determination and will.” Meanwhile, Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said it had been three weeks since the Israeli authorities banned the entry of food, medicines, water and fuel into Gaza. “Every day that passes without the entry…

A Turkish court on Sunday jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, President Tayyip Erdoğan’s top political rival, despite widespread protests against his detention and the allegations against him. Prosecutors have accused İmamoğlu of corruption and aiding a terrorist group, saying he is suspected of leading a “criminal organization.” He is awaiting trial on those charges. Detention orders have also been issued for close to 100 individuals connected with İmamoğlu, including his press adviser, Murat Ongun, CNN cited local media Anadolu as reporting. İmamoğlu was elected mayor of Istanbul, Turkey’s biggest city, in 2019 and again in 2024. He is the opposition…

Thousands protested in Amsterdam, Paris and Toulouse against the backdrop of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. More than 10,000 people gathered in Dam Square in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, to participate in a massive protest against racism, fascism and far-right policies on Saturday.The demonstration – organised by Comité 21 Maart – an anti-racism association – came one day after the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, observed annually on 21 March since its 1966 declaration by the United Nations.Groups also involved in the organisation of the event included Amnesty International, Kick Out Zwarte Piet,…

Organisers of the demonstration warned against the rise of the far-right in the Netherlands, whose government veered to the right last year. Thousands took to the streets of Amsterdam to demonstrate against racism and fascism on Saturday. The protest was peaceful and police did not arrest anyone, according to an official spokesperson. Groups involved in organising the event included Amnesty International, Kick Out Zwarte Piet, the Dutch Palestine Committee and Another Jewish Voice. Protesters held signs reading “Never Again” and “Fact or Faber.” They waved flags for Palestine, Turkey, Ukraine and Black Lives Matter. Local media report that speeches at the march increasingly focused…

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police said on Saturday that they are not treating his death as suspicious. Historians consider Gordievsky one of the era’s most important spies. In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West. Born in Moscow in 1938, Gordievsky joined the KGB in the early 1960s, serving in…

Hezbollah has denied being responsible for the rocket strikes on Israel and reiterated its “commitment to the truce agreement,” Lebanese daily L’Orient-Le-Jour reported. Two people were killed and eight other injured by the Israeli strikes, according to the Lebanese news agency. In a statement, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called for restraint and warned against “a new war which would be devastating for Lebanon.” The escalation comes just days after Israel resumed extensive strikes on Gaza, and amid a growing judicial and political crisis in Israel following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to dismiss the head of the Israeli domestic…

Israel struck Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire. Israel struck Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire. Earlier, rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel, for the second time since December, sparking concern about whether the fragile ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah would hold. Israel had said on Saturday that it would respond “severely” to the attack from Lebanon early Saturday morning, when rockets were fired into northern Israel. Israel’s army said the intercepted rockets…

The American president has described his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as a “dictator without elections” — an assertion aligned with Russian-backed narratives that have sought to undermine the legitimacy of Ukraine’s leadership. Critics say wartime elections would expose Ukraine to Russia’s destabilization tactics and be a logistical nightmare to organize in a country defending itself from an all-out invasion. In the same interview, Witkoff also addressed Ukraine’s potential entry into the NATO military alliance, which Russia fiercely opposes. “If there’s going to be a peace deal, Ukraine cannot be a member of NATO. I think that’s largely accepted,” Witkoff said.…

Nearly 600 Palestinians have now been killed since the truce between Israel and Hamas was shattered on Tuesday. Israeli forces advanced deeper into the Gaza Strip on Friday and blew up the only specialised cancer hospital in the war-torn territory.The violence came as Israeli leaders vowed to capture more land until Hamas releases its remaining hostages.The hospital was located in the Netzarim Corridor, which splits Gaza in two and was controlled by Israeli troops for most of the 17-month-long war. Israel moved to retake the corridor this week shortly after breaking the ceasefire with Hamas. The truce delivered relative calm…

PARIS — Lui-même ne s’y attendait pas, en tout cas pas ce jour-là, selon trois sources au fait de l’affaire : reçu vendredi après-midi par Eric Lombard, ministre de l’Economie et des Finances, le PDG d’EDF, Luc Rémont, s’est vu montrer la porte. Et sans ménagement : tombé quelques heures plus tard, le communiqué de l’Elysée annonçant la nomination, à sa place, de Bernard Fontana — actuel directeur général de Framatome, l’équipementier nucléaire d’EDF — ne contenait pas un mot pour lui. Si la rupture est brutale, c’est que l’exécutif, lassé des retards accumulés sur la construction de six nouveaux réacteurs…