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April 03, 2025
Lockerbie bombing whistleblower arrested in Libya
April 03, 2025
Israel announces expansion of military operation in Gaza to seize ‘large areas’ of land
April 03, 2025
Survivor challenges Israeli account of attack on Gaza paramedics
March 27, 2025
At least six dead after tourist submarine sinks in Egypt's Red Sea
March 27, 2025
‘No other land:’ Oscar-winning Palestinian director says settler assault won’t push him from his home
March 26, 2025
Turkey detains more than 1,400 protesters, multiple journalists after jailing of leading opposition figure
SUSYA, occupied West Bank — The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, taken away by Israeli soldiers and detained overnight, according to his family, friends, colleagues, eyewitnesses and lawyer.On Tuesday afternoon, following his release from detention, Ballal’s lawyer Leah Tzemel said that he had been “arbitrarily” held in police detention in Kiryat Arba’a, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, and that he had been beaten in custody by Israeli soldiers. Following his release, he was moved to a hospital in Hebron, where he was treated for his injuries, according to his brother, Nimer.Despite suffering from dehydration and bruising, Ballal left the hospital, his...
March 26, 2025
Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal released from Israeli detention
March 26, 2025
Turkey's CHP party leader visits jailed Istanbul mayor in prison
SUSYA, West Bank — Three weeks ago, Palestinian film-maker Hamdan Ballal stood in front of the world's cameras in Hollywood, picking up an Oscar for best documentary film.The cameras were watching him again on Tuesday, a hand to his bruised face, as he walked awkwardly away in bloodstained clothes after almost 24 hours in Israeli detention.The night before, he told reporters who had gathered outside, "settlers and soldiers [were] attacking my home". They started "beating me and threaten me with the guns", he added, in quotes reported by news agency AP. The soldiers, he said, shot three times in the air.In detention — where he said he was blindfolded and held beneath a cold air conditioner — soldiers joked about him being an Oscar winner.Just a short while...
March 26, 2025
'I was afraid for my life': At the scene of the attack on Palestinian Oscar winner
March 25, 2025
Erdogan hits out at unrest as protests in Turkey continue for sixth night
