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AFC back Palestine bid to suspend Israel, abolishes term limits
The Asian Football Confederation gave its backing to Palestine's proposal to suspend Israel from FIFA due to the ongoing war in Gaza at its congress in Bangkok on Thursday, as the regional body also abolished term limits for its senior office bearers.
Analysis / Biden unlikely to cut Iran's oil lifeline after Israel attack
The political pressure to punish Iran creates a thorny problem for the administration: how to deter such attacks in future without escalating regional tensions, raising oil prices or antagonizing China, the biggest buyer of Iranian oil.
World heading in a dangerous direction again
Israel, Iran must be pressured to take a step back
Israel eye history as final three Euro 2024 places up for grabs
Israel's footballers are aiming to make history by reaching the European Championship for the first time amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, with the final three places at Euro 2024 up for grabs over the next week.
Can nothing stop Netanyahu’s genocidal mission?
Israel must agree to a ceasefire immediately
Iran asks FIFA to ban Israel
The Iranian Football federation has called upon the world soccer’s governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA, to suspend Israel’s soccer federation over the country’s war in Gaza.
Saudi says no Israel ties without Palestinian state
Saudi Arabia has told Washington it will not establish ties with Israel until an independent Palestinian state "is recognised", the Gulf kingdom's foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday
Attacks on Yemen could open Middle East’s pandora’s box
The US and UK strikes in Yemen have only aggravated the possibility of large-scale conflict in the already volatile Middle East.
99 days of Gaza carnage
Israel continues to pound the ‘blacked out’ Palestinian territory
Israel faces Gaza ceasefire calls, US vows more arms
The UN Security Council was set to convene Tuesday to weigh a call for a ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian territory, after a previous bid was vetoed by the United States.
Israel faces mounting outrage over Gaza war
The deadliest ever Gaza war began with unprecedented attacks by Hamas on October 7, when the group killed 1,139 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250, according to updated Israeli figures.
How long before Gaza ceasefire is enforced?
It is ironic that the superpower that tries to act as the torchbearer of human rights has no qualms with bombing and displacing over two million people
US announces visa bans after warning Israel over West Bank violence
President Joe Biden and other senior US officials have warned repeatedly that Israel must act to stop violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Disempowering voices of propaganda: The BDS movement in books
When millions of lives are at stake and indiscriminate violations of human rights are perpetuated, there is no longer space to entertain the debate on whether the art should be separated from the artist
A sweet and sour Thanksgiving
The relentless Israeli airstrikes appear to have but one mission: to bring Palestinians down to their knees.
For a diaspora soccer club in Chile, 'Palestine exists'
Thousands of miles from the Middle East, in a stadium in Santiago, Chile, the nation of Palestine exists, if only for the 90 minutes of a soccer match.
Will boycotting Israeli products bring peace for Palestinians?
Regardless of the tenacious systems of injustice the BDS movement works against, boycott has historically been a useful tool for advocacy and solidarity.
The lost children of Gaza
There is a generation of children growing up in Gaza without family, without love, without limbs, without food, without education, without basic human rights, in unspeakable depravity, scarred by the trauma of war.
Tentative Gaza deal reached to pause fighting: report
However, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. officials said no deal had been reached yet.
