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Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday rejected Israel's request to withdraw arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

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News Desk - JUL 16, 2025

Some government officials will be meeting in private during the week for high-level negotiations. Government officials from several countries will all be meeting in closed-door sessions on Tuesday to discuss the Hague Group’s proposed measures. It is unclear what those proposed measures are, but they are likely to be announced on Wednesday morning during the closing ceremony. In Tuesday’s closed-door meetings, Albanese presented her expertise to international officials.

well, so much for west's moral superiority.

For months, the Base, born in the US and with a web of cells all over the world, has been offering money to supporters or willing participants for targeted assassinations and attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine, coinciding with allegations that its American founder, Rinaldo Nazzaro, was a Kremlin spy. Ukrainian authorities have also been warning in recent weeks of similar Russian intelligence operations covertly paying unknowing citizens to carry out sabotage inside their country.

In early July, Yemen's Houthis launched a sophisticated and multi-pronged attack on The Magic Seas and The Eternity C, two Greek-owned and Liberian-flagged vessels in the Red Sea. Both vessels were sunk by the group, officially known as Ansar Allah.

“Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, together with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, want to establish what they call a ‘humanitarian city’ in Gaza, where more than 600,000 people would live — a city almost double the size of Tel Aviv,” the Yesh Atid leader said.

Ukrainian hackers breached Gaskar Group, a major Russian military drone manufacturer, on July 15, 2025, destroying over 47 terabytes of technical data and crippling the company's operations^1.

Mosul International Airport, which was previously destroyed by ISIS terrorists, is the third most important airport in Iraq, following Baghdad International Airport and Basra International Airport.

by Caitlin Johnstone Jul 15, 2025

Jose Olivares Jul 15, 2025

The warning was delivered to Karim Khan by Nicholas Kaufman, a British-Israeli defence lawyer at the court who told Khan he had spoken to Netanyahu’s legal advisor and, according to a note of the meeting lodged on file at the ICC and seen by Middle East Eye, was "authorised" to make him a proposal that would allow Khan to "climb down the tree".

💪 Onwards to shattering the empire's preferred Nazi regime

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Israel's military said it struck on Monday several tanks in the Suweida province of southern Syria, where dozens have been killed in clashes between Sunni Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters.

By Mera Aladam Published date: 14 July 2025 11:50 BST | Last update:~08:00 EDT

By MEE staff Published date: 14 July 2025 21:05 BST | Last update: ~17:00 EDT

Shuaib Almosawa and Murtaza Hussain Jul 13, 2025

Jeremy Scahill Jul 14, 2025

Is he building links or a sheep in wolf's clothing?

Neha Madhira July 3 2025, 6:00 a.m.

Israel was already committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, Olmert said, and construction of the camp would mark an escalation.

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Ten thirsty Palestinians, including six children, were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that hit a water distribution point in central Gaza. Over 12 others were injured in the same attack.

Clarification: the author ends his article with "God help us all."

By David Hearst Published date: 12 July 2025 14:39 BST

The Handala, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, left the port of Syracuse shortly after 12:00 pm local time, according to a journalist of the French press agency AFP, carrying about fifteen activists.

A familiar breed of British pundit has resurfaced - loud, self-declared feminists whose outrage is as selective as it is performative, and whose moral compass somehow always aligns with western state power.

By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST

Nazi Terrorists!

At NATO prompting, the Trump Administration has now dismissed the Russian terms of June 2 and the new July 10 Lavrov proposals as perfunctorily as the Biden Administration dismissed the proposed treaties for the US and NATO, which Lavrov’s ministry submitted on December 17, 2021.

from +972 Magazine [published in Israel]

France has announced a “historic” accord with New Caledonia in which the overseas territory, rocked by deadly separatist violence last year, would remain French but be declared a new state.

Judaism is not Zionism, and those who argue they are one and the same are being fundamentally dishonest. Yet collectively, Jews are often held responsible when the world's only Jewish state claims to act in our name.

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have beaten to death a United States citizen in his early 20s, the victim’s family members and rights groups have said.

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The poll found that more than 60 percent of all voters now support deportation of undocumented migrants, with Hispanic voters showing a notable uptick. In contrast, 34.7 percent opposed deportations, and four percent were unsure. Among Hispanic voters, 50 percent supported deportations and 48 percent opposed. There was a seven percent increase in overall support since May among this demographic, with an 11 percent rise among those who said they "strongly support" the policy. Among Black voters, 53 percent supported deportations, while 37 percent opposed. Overall support among this demographic increased by three percent since May. Meanwhile, support among White voters was 65 percent, while 31 percent opposed. Overall support fell by three percent since May.

Twenty years after Jeffrey Epstein was exposed for his child sex abuse enterprise, the Justice Department this week made a startling revelation. Rather than the “dozens” of victims previously alleged by the government and media, Justice now says that there were “over one thousand” victims.

Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro.

Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, has condemned the installation of new plaques in Poland at the site of the Jedwabne pogrom, during which hundreds of Jews were burned alive in World War Two.

Bullets: - Western sanctions against oil producers in Russia and Europe have simply re-routed global trade routes. - Energy shipments from Russia to the European Union have instead been snapped up by India, Turkiye, and Africa. - Iran, though under heavy sanctions, produces more oil today that at any time in over 40 years, with $78 billion in export sales, mostly to China. - Russia and Iran are some of the world's lowest-cost oil producers in the world, and can book profits even as prices fall. - In the United States, drilling companies are shutting down oil rigs and shelving plans for new exploration. Energy companies cannot profitably drill new wells in North America, unless oil prices maintain long-term pricing far above $60 per barrel. - Demand destruction is also being felt across the world, as Chinese production of new energy vehicles is a hit to future gasoline sales.

New satellite images reveal significant damage to the U.S. Al-Udeid air base in Qatar following Iran's retaliatory strikes last month.

Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into far-right leader Grzegorz Braun after he declared the gas chambers at Auschwitz to be “fake” and said it is a “fact” that Jews have committed ritual slaughter of Christians. Denial of Nazi crimes is an offence in Poland that carries a jail sentence of up to three years.

The Spanish government authorizes the acquisition of Israeli defense technology from Elbit Systems with an initial funding of 350 million euros.

During the 12-day war between the U.S, Israel, and Iran, Western media relied heavily upon a U.S.-based “human rights organization” when it came to counting the dead from Israeli strikes, and classifying them as either civilian or military casualties.

It appears that in Israel they believe that it's sufficient to attach the label "humanitarian" to convert every act into a legitimate one. Just like the term "the most moral army in the world", which is no longer connected to what IDF soldiers are doing, they're now trying to present a concentration camp to be used for the transfer of population as the most moral one in the world.

More than 20 countries are convening in Bogota next week to declare “concrete measures against Israel’s violations of international law”, diplomats told Middle East Eye.

The warning was direct, blunt and left no room for doubt. "We expect all ICC actions against the United States and our ally Israel – that is, all investigations and all arrest warrants – to be terminated," said Reed Rubinstein, legal adviser at the US State Department, before delegates of the 125 member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday, July 8, at a meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York from July 7 to 9.