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Updated: 25/03/2025 – 17:54 GMT+1Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was attacked by Israeli settlers, according to activists and witnesses and later detained by the military in the occupied West Bank before being released on Tuesday. … More Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, one of the co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, an activist group reported on Monday.According to the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, Ballal was surrounded and assaulted by around 15 armed settlers in Susiya, in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron. Witnesses, including Jewish American activists, said some settlers…
A U.K. diplomat said they had watched aghast as the spectacular leak emerged on Monday night, describing it as “wild.” The diplomat noted that it underlined the impression that Vance was the driver of U.S. hostility towards Europe. This, the person said, forced others including Trump into a tougher position because he “doesn’t want to look weaker than Vance.” In public, U.K. ministers and officials tried to minimize the damage from the revelations, insisting the alliance with the U.S. was strong and communications remained secure. But Britain’s former Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said some in the Trump administration clearly need…
Cross-border strikes continued overnight into Tuesday with multiple casualties reported in seven regions of the country. Russian launched around 140 drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine, striking seven regions of the country and injuring several people. A residential area in Kherson was one of the regions affected by Russian shelling.Several private homes were damaged, but no casualties were reported, according to Roman Mrochko, head of the Kherson City Military Administration. Emergency teams assessed the damage and began recovery efforts immediately. Residents described the impact, with Svitlana Balezina stating that the first strike landed behind her house before a second…
The EU, meanwhile, has been perceived as being unusually cautious about supporting the protests, while Vučić’s working dinner with the bloc’s top leaders sparked controversy in and outside of Serbia. Last week 32 MEPs demanded in a letter that von der Leyen cancel the meeting. “It’s important that the Commission engages with him [Vučić],” Slovenian Green MEP Irena Joveva said. “But before giving him a platform to use back home for a surreal show, the EU should clearly state that Serbian protesters are demanding the very things the EU allegedly wants from Serbia but has failed to achieve.” “The EU…
Donald Trump previously signed an executive order to cut funding to South Africa and offer refugee status to Afrikaners, claiming the government was enabling farm attacks and land dispossession. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has strongly dismissed claims that white citizens are being persecuted in South Africa, calling the allegations a “completely false narrative”.His comments come amid accusations from US President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk and white minority groups, that South Africa’s government is enabling violence against the white Afrikaner population.In his weekly address on Monday, Ramaphosa urged South Africans not to let “events beyond our shores divide…
The agreement would represent Germany’s strictest migration policies in decades. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came second in the election on Feb. 23 and is likely to become a rowdy opposition voice in the forthcoming parliament. Some aspects of migration policy are not agreed, however. So far, the SPD is rejecting CDU demands to set up asylum processing and return centers in other countries. Away from migration, the two parties haven’t yet agreed on defense spending. The CDU is pushing to radically increase German investment to 3.5 percent target — far above NATO’s 2 percent target — which would…
Now that the United States is cracking down on immigration, some low-skill jobs may not be so easy to fill. So the state is debating lifting some child labour laws to involve minors. Florida’s state’s legislature is debating a bill on Tuesday that would relax child labour rules and allow minors as young as 14 years old to work overnight on school days. According to the current rules, they are not allowed to work between 11pm and 6.30am. Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis supports the loosening of the law, along with President Donald Trump’s policy of deporting undocumented immigrants from the…
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Updated: 25/03/2025 – 17:58 GMT+1Marking the 1821 War of Independence, Athens hosted a military parade, church services, ceremonial gun salutes, and a flag-raising at the Acropolis, attended by national leaders. … More Greece celebrated its Independence Day on Tuesday, commemorating the start of the 1821 War of Independence against Ottoman rule with military parades and religious services.In Athens, a grand military parade took place at Syntagma Square, attended by President Konstantinos Tassoulas and top state, political, and military officials. The day began with 21 ceremonial gun salutes from Lycabettus Hill, while armed forces bands played in central streets.A special service…
The government is braced for the possibility that the U.S. may retaliate against Britain’s 20 percent Value Added Tax — a consumption levy added to most goods and services. The first U.K. official quoted above voiced concern this could be set at the difference between U.S. sales taxes and the VAT rate, so around 12 to 14 percent. Easing up on U.K. taxes on big tech firms, something that’s being mulled in a bid to swerve Trump’s tariff wrath, could also cause a fresh headache for Reeves. Some Labour backbenchers have already raised the alarm at the optics of going…