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Israeli ultranationalists chant racist slogans during Jerusalem Day march 

14 May 2026

Israeli ultranationalists marching through Jerusalem’s Old City chanted “Death to Arabs” and “May your villages ...

Iran urges BRICS nations to condemn US-Israeli war aggression 

14 May 2026

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called on fellow BRICS nations to condemn what he called violations of inte...

‘May your village burn’: Israeli Flag March returns to East Jerusalem 

14 May 2026

Uri Weltmann was tense. He’s the national field director for Standing Together, an organisation of Jewish and Palestin...

Acute hunger grips nearly 20 million people in war-battered Sudan, says IPC 

14 May 2026

More than 40 percent of Sudan’s population is facing acute hunger, according ⁠⁠to a report by a global hunger moni...

Trump administration pledges $1.8bn in additional humanitarian aid to UN 

14 May 2026

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has pledged an extra $1.8bn in humanitarian funding to the Un...

Yemen gov’t, Houthis to release more than 1,600 POWs in ‘largest’ swap 

14 May 2026

Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the Houthi group have signed a United Nations-backed agreement in Jo...

‘Absolutely no fuel’: Cuba hit by blackouts, protests amid power outages 

14 May 2026

Cuba has been hit by worsening power outages after the island’s communist government said fuel reserves had run out, a...

Iraq’s parliament approves new Ali al-Zaidi government 

14 May 2026

Iraq’s new Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has been ⁠sworn in with only a partial cabinet ⁠after lawmakers failed to r...

Israel’s Netanyahu says suing New York Times over Palestinian rape article 

14 May 2026

The Israeli government has said it is taking the extraordinary step of suing The New York Times after the newspaper publ...

Trump, Xi discuss Strait of Hormuz as Chinese vessels transit key waterway 

14 May 2026

United States President Donald Trump has discussed the Strait of Hormuz and the US-Israel war on Iran during his meeting...