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Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi
ByArwa Mahdawi September 2, 2025

As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add upI don’t know if Frankenstein star Christoph Waltz is normally a man of few words but he didn’t have much to say at a recen…

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Belgium to recognise Palestinian state at UN and sanction Israel – as it happened
ByYohannes Lowe September 2, 2025September 2, 2025

Foreign minister says move is not aimed at Israeli people but ‘ensuring their government respects international and humanitarian law’. This live blog is closedAt least 63,633 Palestinian people have been killed and 160,914 others injured in Israeli att…

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‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning
ByGhaith Abdul-Ahad September 2, 2025

Over a few brutal days in March, as sectarian violence and revenge killings tore through parts of Syria, two friends from different communities tried to find a way to surviveOn the night of 6 March, Munir, his wife and their two sons, both in their 20s…

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Sudan landslide kills at least 1,000 people, rebel group says
ByReuters September 2, 2025September 2, 2025

Landslide destroyed a village in the Marra mountains area of western Sudan and left only one survivorMore than 1,000 people were killed in a landslide in western Sudan on Sunday, according to a rebel group that controls the area.The landslide, which fo…

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Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing
ByPeter Beaumont and Alice Speri September 1, 2025

Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeshipA plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to prov…

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Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing
ByPeter Beaumont and Alice Speri September 1, 2025

Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeshipA plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to prov…

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Berlin police investigate after officer punches Irish activist at protest
ByDeborah Cole in Berlin and Rory Carroll in Dublin September 1, 2025

Ireland’s foreign office conveys ‘concern’ about incident that was captured on videos posted on social mediaBerlin police have opened an internal investigation after videos emerged showing an Irish activist at a pro-Palestinian demonstration being punc…

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Berlin police investigate after officer punches Irish activist at protest
ByDeborah Cole in Berlin and Rory Carroll in Dublin September 1, 2025

Ireland’s foreign office conveys ‘concern’ about incident that was captured on videos posted on social mediaBerlin police have opened an internal investigation after videos emerged showing an Irish activist at a pro-Palestinian demonstration being punc…

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Iran accuses Europe of stepping aside and letting Trump dictate nuclear deal terms
ByPatrick Wintour in Tehran September 1, 2025

Foreign ministry says US will be dictating what happens once UN-wide sanctions are reimposedEurope is on the verge of abandoning its role of a mediator between the US and Iran and instead handing the Iran nuclear file over to Donald Trump’s veto, Iran’…

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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
ByLorenzo Tondo September 1, 2025

International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who votedAn overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association have backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet th…

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