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Syrian army fighters walk past an abandoned cinema in downtown Homs, 21 November, 2025
EU updates asylum guidance for Syrian refugees a year after fall of Bashar al-Assad
BRUSSLES — The European Union issued updated guidance for asylum applications by Syrian nationals on Wednesday that reflects new conditions in Syria a year after the fall of former long-time leader, Bashar al-Assad.The changes may influence the result of asylum requests of some 110,000 Syrians who were still awaiting an asylum decision at the end of September.The European Union Agency for Asylum said opponents of al-Assad and military service evaders "are no longer at risk of persecution."But the agency said other groups may be considered at risk in the post-Assad Syria, including people affiliated with the former government and members of the Alawites, Christians, and Druze ethnic-religious groups.While decisions on asylum applications are made at a national level, the agency's...
December 04, 2025

EU updates asylum guidance for Syrian refugees a year after fall of Bashar al-Assad

The push to conscript more ultra-Orthodox men triggered a huge protest in Jerusalem last month. — EPA
Crisis looms in Israel over ultra-Orthodox conscription bill
JERUSALEM — An impending crisis over conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the Israeli army is threatening to undermine Israel's government and split the country.Public opinion on the issue has shifted dramatically in Israel after two years of war, and this is now perhaps the most explosive political risk facing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Lawmakers are currently considering a draft bill to end the exemption granted to ultra-Orthodox men enrolled in full-time religious study, established when the State of Israel was declared in 1948.That exemption was ruled illegal by Israel's High Court of Justice almost 20 years ago. Temporary arrangements to continue it were formally ended by the court last year, forcing the government to begin drafting the community.Some 24,000 draft...
December 03, 2025

Crisis looms in Israel over ultra-Orthodox conscription bill

Demonstrators hold a banner reading 'Gaza, let the internationals journalists enter' during a protest in Paris, 20 November, 2025
French journalist unions file legal complaint accusing Israel of obstructing press freedom
PARIS — The National Union of Journalists (SNJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have filed a complaint with France's national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office (Pnat), accusing Israeli authorities of "obstructions to press freedoms" in the Palestinian territories.The two organisations — the largest journalist union in France and the largest journalist union worldwide — announced the move on Tuesday.Their complaint denounces what they describe as "an organised, systematic and prolonged" effort to prevent journalists, including French reporters, from accessing Gaza and carrying out their work safely.According to the complaint, no foreign journalist has been allowed to enter Gaza freely since the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.The...
December 03, 2025

French journalist unions file legal complaint accusing Israel of obstructing press freedom

Displaced Palestinian women and children live at a temporary makeshift camp set up in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 01 December 2025. — EPA
UK criticizes Gaza aid delays as tents take year to arrive
LONDON — The UK government has criticized delays in aid being allowed into Gaza after a consignment of more than 1,100 tents it sent to the strip took more than a year to arrive.The foreign secretary has also raised concerns that other UK-funded aid had been unable to reach residents, despite the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.Yvette Cooper said the situation in Gaza remains "dire" as the United Nations warned that 1.5 million people are in need of urgent shelter amid worsening rains and plummeting temperatures ahead of winter.The BBC has asked the Israeli government for a response.The tents — each capable of housing a family of five — reached Gaza on Monday, with more expected to arrive this week.Government sources said the tents will provide shelter to as many as 12,000 people...
December 02, 2025

UK criticizes Gaza aid delays as tents take year to arrive

The Pope arrived in Beirut on Sunday
Pope Leo XIV in Lebanon: 'In Palestine the only solution is two states'
BEIRUT — On the second leg of his first foreign trip, Pope Leo XIV visited Beirut in a bid to bring hope to Lebanon amid economic uncertainty, political divisions, and tensions in the region, including a war with Israel.The pontiff called on Lebanon to begin a new chapter, and urged the country's leaders to push their differences aside to achieve peace, reminding that peace must not simply be an aspiration, but a daily necessity.Lebanon has the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Pope Leo XIV is fulfilling a promise of his predecessor, Pope Francis, who had wanted to visit for years but was unable to as his health worsened.Upon his arrival to Beirut, where the pontiff arrived with a Lebanese military jet escort, Pope Leo XIV was greeted first by President Joseph Aoun,...
December 01, 2025

Pope Leo XIV in Lebanon: 'In Palestine the only solution is two states'

Netanyahu said a pardon would lead to national reconciliation in Israel
Israeli PM Netanyahu requests pardon in ongoing corruption trial
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally requested a pardon in his long-running corruption trial, arguing it was in the “public interest.”In a letter addressed to President Isaac Herzog, Netanyahu wrote that his trial has become “a focal point of fierce controversy” for which he bears “broad public and more responsibility, with an understanding of the overall ramifications of these events.”Netanyahu said it was in his “personal interest” to prove his innocence in the ongoing trial, but “the public interest dictates otherwise.” The letter was submitted on Thursday and publicized on Sunday.As Israeli head of state, Herzog has the sole mandate to issue pardons. His office confirmed it received the request, and Herzog would “consider it with great...
December 01, 2025

Israeli PM Netanyahu requests pardon in ongoing corruption trial

An Internally displaced Palestinian boy runs near tents set up among the ruins of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, 28 November 2025, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. (EPA)
Palestinian death toll in Gaza surpasses 70,000 as ceasefire violations continue
GAZA — The Palestinian death toll in Gaza has exceeded 70,000 since the Israel–Hamas war began, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Saturday, as Israeli fire killed two children in the territory’s south despite a ceasefire in place since Oct. 10. The ministry said the toll has continued to rise due to ongoing Israeli strikes it describes as responses to alleged truce violations, as well as the recovery of bodies from earlier stages of the conflict. Gaza’s Health Ministry — operating under the Hamas-run administration but staffed by medical professionals — is widely viewed by the international community as maintaining detailed and generally reliable casualty records. Its latest update places the death toll at 70,100. Medical staff at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza said two brothers,...
November 30, 2025

Palestinian death toll in Gaza surpasses 70,000 as ceasefire violations continue

Israeli troops conduct a military operation at Al Fara'a refugee camp near the West Bank city of Tubas, 28 November 2025. (EPA)
UN committee says Israel operating ‘de facto policy of organised and widespread torture’
GAZA — A UN committee has said there is credible evidence that Israel is operating a “de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture” against Palestinians held in its custody, warning that alleged abuses amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The findings were issued by the United Nations Committee Against Torture, which reviews the records of all states that are party to the Convention Against Torture. During Israel’s review, the committee heard testimony from Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups, who detailed severe mistreatment in detention centres and reported thousands of arrests since Oct. 7, 2023. Under Israel’s administrative detention laws and the Unlawful Combatants Law, Palestinians can be held for extended periods without access to lawyers...
November 29, 2025

UN committee says Israel operating ‘de facto policy of organised and widespread torture’

Israeli soldiers take position during a raid in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Thursday
Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank following 'surrender'
JERUSALEM — Video has emerged showing Israeli security forces shooting dead two Palestinians who appeared to have surrendered in the occupied West Bank.The incident happened during an ongoing Israeli military operation in the city of Jenin.The Palestinian Authority confirmed their deaths, with the West Bank’s General Authority for Civil Affairs identifying the men as 26-year-old Al-Muntasir Mahmoud Qassem Abdullah and 37-year-old Youssef Ali Youssef Asasa.The Authority accused Israeli forces of committing a "war crime" and described the killings as "brutal" field executions.It also condemned the deadly shooting as a flagrant violation of all international laws, conventions, norms, and humanitarian values.”Israeli authorities said are reviewing the incident in Jenin in which soldiers...
November 28, 2025

Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank following 'surrender'

Irish author Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban
LONDON — Irish author Sally Rooney has told the High Court it is "almost certain" she cannot publish new novels in the UK and may have to withdraw her current books because of the banning of Palestine Action under terrorism laws.Rooney says UK legislation may mean she cannot be paid royalties by her British publisher or the BBC because it could leave both at risk of being accused of funding terrorism.In August she said she intended to use royalties "to go on supporting Palestine Action."The group was banned in July after the home secretary accused it of causing serious damage to property. Its co-founder is challenging that ban in the High Court, arguing it interferes with the right to protest.The author of Normal People, which was adapted into one of the most watched BBC dramas of recent...
November 28, 2025

Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban

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