‘Absolutely Urgent’: Francesca Albanese, UN Rapporteur, Demands International Protection Presence In Palestine As Settler Violence Hits Record And Security Council Remains Paralysed.

Francesca Albanese says third states have an ICJ-mandated obligation to end Israel’s occupation. But with US vetoes blocking the Security Council, Europe, Asia and the Middle East issuing condemnations without action, Palestinians are left without protection amid record settler violence and a Gaza shelter crisis.

IRAN: Iran Says Targeting Its Ports Would Endanger All Persian Gulf Shipping Hubs.

TEHRAN, April 13, 2026 – A tenuous two-week ceasefire has shattered, plunging the Persian Gulf into a direct naval confrontation. The US Navy, under direct orders from President Donald Trump,…

IRAN: Into The Kill Box – How A U.S. Navy Propaganda Run In The Strait Of Hormuz Became A Near-Catastrophe.

ISLAMABAD / TEHRAN – In the hours after a 21-hour diplomatic marathon collapsed in Pakistan’s capital, a far more dangerous drama was already unfolding in the narrow waters of the…

GAZA: Starvation Looms As Gaza’s Bread System Nears Total Collapse Amid Vanishing Flour.

GAZA - The fragile ceasefire in Gaza was never a return to normalcy, but for millions of starving Palestinians, bread was the final thin line between survival and catastrophe. As…

TURKEY: Istanbul Prosecutor Files Indictment Against Netanyahu, 34 Others Over Gaza Aid Flotilla Attack.

ISTANBUL — In a dramatic escalation of legal and political pressure against Israeli leadership, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has filed a sweeping 35-defendant indictment that seeks to hold…

ANALYSIS PAKISTAN-IRAN-US: Inside The Islamabad Implosion: Why 21 Hours Of US-Iran Talks Collapsed, And What Comes Next.

ISLAMABAD, TEHRAN, WASHINGTON - For 21 hours, the world watched Islamabad. Delegations from Washington and Tehran, led respectively by Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf,…

GAZA: We Have No Blueprint For Survival – Six Months Into Gaza Ceasefire, The Killing Never Stopped.

GAZA CITY / GENEVA – The ceasefire was supposed to mark the beginning of the end. Six months ago, on 10 October 2025, a US‑brokered truce halted two years of…

WEST BANK: Forced To Destroy Their Own Homes: The Hidden Cruelty Of Israel’s “Self-Demolition” Policy In East Jerusalem.

EAST JERUSALEM — On a crisp April morning in the Ras al-Amud neighbourhood of Silwan, the sound of sledgehammers and crowbars echoed not from Israeli bulldozers, but from the hands…

LEBANON: Escalation By Design: How Israel’s Lebanon Offensive And Hezbollah’s Retaliation Are Undermining A Fragile Ceasefire.

BEIRUT/TEL AVIV — A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Lebanon as Israeli military operations intensify, met with a sophisticated and sustained campaign of retaliatory strikes by Hezbollah. This brutal exchange,…

PAKISTAN: The Islamabad Brink: How Iran Forced A Halt To Beirut Strikes And What It Reveals About A Ceasefire On The Edge.

ISLAMABAD / BEIRUT — As dawn breaks over a locked-down Islamabad on Friday, the world's attention is fixed on a single question: will a historic, high-stakes negotiation between the United…

JERUSALEM: Al-Aqsa Reopens After 40 Days, But Closure, Crackdowns And “New Realities” Persist Under Occupation.

OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, OPT, April 9, 2026 - After forty days of unprecedented closure, the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque reopened at dawn on Thursday, allowing around 3,000 Palestinian worshippers to…

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