Eurasia

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement welcomed in a statement the British Labor Party’s motion passed yesterday that declared Israel as an apartheid state due to its treatment of Palestinians.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, or SCO, was founded two decades ago in St. Petersburg and currently has eight members representing half the world’s population and a quarter of its economic output.

Labour has expelled a well-known filmmaker and is likely to expel one of pro-Palestinian activists after both spoke out against the purge of the left and the Palestine solidarity movement.

A Manchester art exhibition which was closed over attempts to censor material within it that criticises Israel has reopened after days of protest.

Poland on Monday recalled its ambassador to Israel two days after Jerusalem did the same over a Polish law curbing World War II-era property claims, which the Israelis have slammed as "anti-Semitic".

MPs approve law that will effectively put an end to most legal claims for properties confiscated after World War II, prompting sharp criticism from Israel and US. Lawmakers also vote in favour of a new law that critics say will curb media freedom.

A pro-Palestinian group is appealing for donations to help restock a bookshop that was destroyed by airstrikes in Gaza.

Community Security Trust recorded 639 incidents in May, 49% of the total for the first half of 2021.

A “record wave” of anti-Israeli sentiments were sparked by the Israel-Gaza conflict, a monitoring group has said.

Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee has accused the Biden administration of not having a proper plan for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, placing the blame square in Biden's hands.

Advisor to Pakistan Prime Minister on National Security Dr Moeed Yusuf has said that the United States is leaving Afghanistan without settling the Afghan issue.

North Korea has condemned Israel for turning the Gaza Strip "into a huge human slaughterhouse and place of massacring children" after the latest violent conflict between the Zionist regime and Hamas.

The Belfast City Council in Northern England has passed a motion demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassadors from both Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Victims of 11 days of Israeli bombing can benefit from bloc’s additional humanitarian funding.

Copenhagen law enforcement officers disperse protesters near Israeli Embassy.

Protesters have spoken of their ‘heavy’ hearts after the repeated killings of innocent Palestinians.

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France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and UK call on Israel to stop settlement expansion policy across occupied Palestinian lands.

HRW viewpoint is 'explicitly not endorsed' by German government, official says

Zionist lobbies and pro-Israel groups have tried for years to have the march banned as a purely antisemitic demonstration

A senior political figure in Pakistan said that Islamic countries will not accept any election in Palestine excluding Al-Quds.

A dozen British charities have condemned Boris Johnson for rejecting an International Criminal Court probe into alleged war crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian Territories as “political interference.”

In Berlin, the ‘Al Quds March’ will take place on May 8th yet again, unless the authorities ban it beforehand.

In a letter to Conservative Friends of Israel, the UK prime minister says the probe into alleged war crimes 'gives the impression of being a prejudicial attack on an ally'.

Activists sprayed computers in red paint, broke windows, chained themselves to the premises and stuck banners across the buildings.

The Zionist regime has so far failed to respond to the European Union’s request to monitor the first Palestinian elections in 15 years, EURACTIV has learned, significantly reducing the chances of ensuring an adequate observer presence at this key milestone.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held a videoconference on Thursday to look into the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue.

The World Bank approved a grant of $20 million to increase access to high-speed broadband services in selected Palestinian areas and enable the development of various e-government services in an effort to help the economy recover from the pandemic-induced shocks.

In February, Israel invited Norway to a vaccine collaboration, but the invite was rejected, newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) writes. Several opposition politicians reacted strongly to the news.

"China has decided to donate COVID-19 vaccines to Palestine," the country's Ambassador Geng Shuang told the UN Security Council during its monthly meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Vietnam has welcomed recent progress towards the organization of an election in Palestine which will mark an important step to reunification and reconciliation at an online meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the situation in the Middle East, including Palestinian issue, on February 26.

A blast went off close to the Israeli embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Friday afternoon, damaging the windows of parked vehicles.

Russia is closely watching the nascent normalization of relations between Israel and several Arab countries.

China has reiterated its support to the Palestinian cause to restore the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.

The government has no intention to recognize the Zionist regime and is determined to stand by the oppressed Palestinians as well as Kashmiris, according to Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Middle East and Religious Affairs.

'Freedom for Palestine - Stop Zionism,' reads slogan for German anti-Zionist activists protest in front of synagogue.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warns that his country will be left with no choice but to adopt “tit-for-tat” measures if Washington goes ahead with the plan to kill a key Cold War-era arms control treaty and deploys new missiles in Europe.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Saudi Arabia is not cooperating with the investigation into the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi journalist who is suspected of being killed during a visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month.

As the Syrian armed forces are preparing to launch a full-scale offensive to retake the northern province of Idlib, Russia says the Syrian troops have the full right to go after and hunt the terrorists out of the last stronghold of militants.

The presidents of Iran, Russia, and Turkey will hold their third round of tripartite summit in Iran next week in an attempt to find ways to end the ongoing crisis in Syria, Turkish state television says.

Moscow has warned Washington against making any "reckless" moves in Syria after the Russian Defense Ministry said the US, Britain and France are preparing to conduct a fresh aerial assault against Syria under the pretext of the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Damascus government.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova says the November elections in the United States are the reason behind the announcement of the next bunch of sanctions to be imposed by Washington against Moscow.

United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has invited Iran, Russia and Turkey to talks due to be held in Geneva next month on forming Syria's Constitutional Committee, a UN spokeswoman says.

Russia says drones used to attack its Hmeimim airbase in Syria are too sophisticated to have been assembled by terrorists and that experts believe terrorists use foreign help to launch the raids which have increased.

Russia says it was "deeply disappointed" by US President Donald Trump's move to re-impose unilateral sanctions on Tehran, vowing to make its utmost efforts to save a landmark nuclear agreement Iran signed with the P5+1 group of countries in 2015.

Iran, Russia and Turkey, as guarantor states for a peace process in Syria, have expressed their firm determination to counter any plot aimed at partitioning the Arab country.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fired back at his US counterpart Donald Trump, who recently threatened Ankara with sanctions unless it freed a jailed American pastor.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey will stand its ground after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap sanctions on Ankara if it does not free an American pastor, broadcaster Haberturk reported on Sunday.