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HaaretzHumanityIslamic World

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.

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The GuardianScandalNorth West England

Guardiola leaves Manchester City as one of the game’s greats – and someone who knows its dark heart | Barney Ronay

While there is no denying the magnitude of his achievements, his legacy is also tied up in politics, propaganda and hard powerWell, that’s that then. Put out more flags. Mount the iconic Jedi‑style woollen cardigan in the club museum. .In , it now seems highly likely the scheduled final year of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City contract will be spent trawling the high-concept food ateliers of the Iberian peninsula, debating spatial architecture with a Slovenian Cluedo grandmaster over hummingbird martinis, and generally recharging after a decade of unceasing devotion to victory.

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The IndependentWar & ConflictIran

Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? US and Israel’s pick to lead Iran

Download our app The United States and Israel initiated a war in Iran with the objective of installing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the country’s new leader, a plan developed in consultation with Ahmadinejad himself, US officials briefed on the discussions told the New York Times. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was injured in an Israeli strike on his Tehran home, which was reportedly an attempt to free him from house arrest, resulting in the deaths of three of his Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps bodyguards.

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The TelegraphHistoryGermany

Young German anti-Zionists can no longer hide from their families’ Nazi past

“Was my father/grandfather/great-grandfather a Nazi?” This variation on the question “Daddy, what did you do in the war?” has suddenly become urgent for millions of Germans, thanks to a decision by the US National Archive to make some 11 million Nazi party membership cards available online. The German weekly paper Die Zeit has made the full archive easily searchable for anyone with a subscription.

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The GuardianHumanitySouth America

Forced disappearances, killings and torture: why is Ecuador’s brutal drug war being backed by the west?

The US, EU and Britain have increased their ties with Daniel Noboa’s militarised crackdown, despite reports of widespread rights abusesThe raid began at 4am. As the children slept, soldiers charged into the family home, rifles raised. “They said they were entering under the emergency powers,” says Rosa*, the family’s matriarch, whose name has been changed for fear of retaliation. “They pointed their guns at us. I thought they were going to kill us all.”The soldiers quickly singled out her son, 16-year-old Jairo Damián Tapia Álvarez, and her nephew, 17-year-old Jostin Elian Álvarez Chávez, she says, separating the boys from the family.

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DawnHumanityIslamic World

Sexual abuse by Israel

THE harrowing details of the widespread torture and sexual violence inflicted on Palestinian prisoners — men, women and children — by Israeli forces, as chronicled by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, are a damning indictment of the so-called civilised world that looks the other way when war crimes are committed by the Zionist state. Kristof’s account, published last week, is based on interviews with a number of Palestinians who have experienced sexual violence at the hands of “soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards”.

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NatureClimateUSA

Forest carbon protocols underestimate climate-driven carbon loss risks

Although the reduction of fossil fuel emissions remains of the utmost importance to mitigate climate change, maintaining and enhancing carbon sinks in forests have been widely promoted as nature-based climate solutions1,2,3,4. However, disturbances that could result in losses of forest carbon stocks are poorly accounted for when estimating the potential role of forests in climate mitigation5,6,7.

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The TelegraphCrime & SafetyLondon

The Met handed me an apology written to close a file. I’m not closing it

On May 18, the Metropolitan Police apologised to me. After five months of internal review, after a formal complaint, after legal action paid for by people who don’t even know me, Insp Matt Hume of the directorate of professional standards put his name to a document admitting that the service I received was “not acceptable” and that aspects of the investigation “lacked the diligence one would expect from the Metropolitan Police”.

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The GuardianHealthcareCanada

Canada faces calls for investigation into death of woman after plasma donation

International student Rodiyat Alabede, 22, died due to a ‘perfect storm’ of lax safety protocols, advocates sayPatient advocates in Canada have called for a new investigation into the who was donating blood plasma, describing a “perfect storm” of lax safety protocols and poorly trained staff and warning of “systemic issues” at plasma donation sites across the country.Rodiyat Alabede, an international student at the University of Winnipeg, died of cardiac arrest shortly after a plasma donation in October 2025 at a facility operated by the Spanish healthcare company Grifols. An initial investigation by Health Canada found no links between the plasma donation and her death.

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The GuardianHumanityIsrael

Israeli security minister stirs diplomatic outrage with flotilla activist abuse video

Far-right figure Itamar Ben-Gvir shares footage of himself taunting bound international detaineesIsrael’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has sparked a diplomatic crisis by publishing footage of Israeli security forces abusing international activists who were detained as they tried to sail to Gaza with aid.There was a rapid and furious response from countries whose citizens were on board the boats, including the UK, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Ireland, in many cases delivered in person from the top of government.

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