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Microsoft Fires Employees over Protest Against Ties with Israel
Sada Elbalad
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August 28, 2025
Thu 28 Aug 2025 | 12:34 PM Microsoft has dismissed two employees who staged a sit-in at the office of company president Brad Smith, protesting against the tech giant’s collaboration with Israel during the ongoing war in Gaza. A Microsoft...
Violent Israeli Airstrikes on the Yemeni Capital, Sana'a
Sada Elbalad
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August 28, 2025
Thu 28 Aug 2025 | 05:44 PM Violent Israeli Airstrikes on the Yemeni Capital, Sana'a Media affiliated with the Houthi Ansar Allah movement confirmed that the Israeli occupation army is launching violent airstrikes on the Yemeni capital, Sana'a. The...
Yes, the whole world is wrong about Israel
The Jewish World - New York
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August 28, 2025
Armed Palestinians sit on trucks carrying humanitarian aid near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, Aug. 18, 2025. Photo courtesy of Khalil Kahlout/Flash90. By JONATHAN S. TOBIN JNS You can see it in...
Mad Solutions Takes Arab Rights To Gaza Drama ‘The Voice Of Hind Rajab’ As Company Fetes A-List Fest Hat-Trick
Deadline
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August 28, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Mad Distribution has taken Arab theatrical rights for Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza drama The Voice of Hind Hajab, which was announced as Tunisia’s entry for the Best International Feature Film category of the 98th Academy Awards on...
West Bank: Shepherd Attacked, Journalist Detained in Israeli Raids
Al Manar
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August 28, 2025
A wave of Israeli occupation military raids and settler attacks swept across the West Bank on Thursday, resulting in a Palestinian injured, multiple arrests—including a journalist—and widespread unrest, according to local reports. The incidents...
World : UN Chief Warns of ‘Present-Day Catastrophe’ In Gaza as Israeli Strikes Escalate
Bernama
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August 28, 2025
HAMILTON (Canada), Aug 28 (Bernama-Anadolu) -- United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday warned of the devastating consequences of Israel’s military actions to take over Gaza City, while raising alarm over the worsening...
IRGC Possesses Complete Intelligence Database on ‘Israel’
Al Manar
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August 28, 2025
Brigadier General Ali-Mohammad Naeini, spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), announced that the Corps has built a comprehensive intelligence database on ‘Israel’, emphasizing that safeguarding the narrative of Iran’s...
India’s Climate-Finance Gap Is Smaller Than It Seems
Project Syndicate
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India’s clean-energy transition is often portrayed as prohibitively expensive, with some estimates running into the hundreds of billions of dollars per year. But a new study finds that actual financing needs are far more modest and concentrated in...
New footage reveals third Israeli strike on Gaza hospital that killed 22 and sparked global outrage
The Independent
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August 28, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
The New Syria, under Israeli-American construction
Mada Masr
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August 28, 2025
With a shake of a hand in the Saudi capital of Riyadh in mid May, Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa completed his political transformation. Gone was the man who once had an American bounty of US$10 million on his head. Gone was the moniker...
NEXIM Bank MD to engage young Nigerians on non-oil export opportunities for wealth creation
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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August 27, 2025
The Managing Director Nexim Bank, Mr Abubakar Abba Bello will on Tuesday, 2nd September, 2025 address a gathering of young entrepreneurs and business owners especially in the agriculture and non-oil production value chain as part of effort to...
Why people are protesting Microsoft tech used by Israel
KUOW 94.9 - Washington State
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August 28, 2025
Big Tech companies are powerful, influential, and often hard to hold accountable. But No Azure for Apartheid is trying to get Microsoft to make changes through protests. Those protests have escalated recently. There’s lots to talk about and...
The price of genocide: How US funding sustains an unraveling Israeli economy
Middle East Monitor
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August 28, 2025
In an important step toward the economic isolation of Israel due to its genocide in Gaza, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global has decided to divest from yet more Israeli companies. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is the world’s largest, with...
Israeli occupation forces storm six schools in Hebron, detain teachers
Gulf Times
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August 28, 2025
The Israeli occupation forces raided six schools in the city of Hebron on Thursday and detained several teachers. The Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported that the occupation forces raided and searched the six schools in the Sheikh neighborhood...
Yosef Blau, author of an Orthodox rabbis’ letter calling out Israel, responds to his critics
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - New York
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August 28, 2025
For 48 years, until he moved to Israel earlier this year, Rabbi Yosef Blau was the “mashgiach ruchani” at Yeshiva University, a revered figure who served as a sort of spiritual guidance counselor to students at Modern Orthodoxy’s flagship...
Israel demands retraction of ‘fraudulent’ Gaza famine report
The Jewish News
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August 28, 2025
Israel is demanding the retraction of a “deeply flawed” UN-supported agency report that declared a famine in Gaza City and claimed conditions are likely to spread to Deir al‑Balah and Khan Younis in coming weeks. On Friday 22 August, The...
Israel's greenhouse gas emissions rise, far above 2030 target
Xinhua News Agency
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JERUSALEM, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Israel emitted 79.3 million tons of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2024, up 2.2 percent from 2023, significantly exceeding its 2030 target of 58 MtCO2e, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection's annual...
Catholic aid workers help rebuild shattered West Bank economy amid war
Detroit Catholic
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August 28, 2025
(OSV News) ─ As the Israel-Hamas War nears the two-year mark, Catholic humanitarians are working to create jobs and livelihoods amid the shattered economy of the West Bank, the area between Israel and the River Jordan that is home to more than 3...
State-backed Islamophobia: Israel labels Muslim presence in Europe ‘true face of colonisation’
Middle East Monitor
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August 28, 2025
Israel’s role as one of the major contributors to the rise in global Islamophobia was further highlighted this week when the self-proclaimed Jewish state, founded through ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism, described the presence of Muslims...
Israeli couple donate $180 million to Petach Tikva hospital
The Jewish News
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August 28, 2025
An Israeli couple, said to be among the richest in the country, have made a “historic” donation to the Rabin Medical Centre/Beilinson Hospital of $180 million. Anat and Dr Shmuel Harlap’s gift, said to be the largest ever donation to the Israeli...