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North and South Korea Vow to “Eliminate All the Danger of War”

The Koreas agreed to withdraw 11 guard posts from the Demilitarized Zone, by December, and to establish a no-fly zone above the military demarcation line.

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On Wednesday, North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un has pledged to dismantle the country’s main nuclear complex at Nyongbyon, if the United States undertake similar act, to “eliminate all the danger of war.” “We have agreed to make the Korean Peninsula a land of peace that is free from nuclear weapons and nuclear threat,” Kim declared,

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Ahed Tamimi Finally Travels to France Despite Israeli Obstacles

Ahed Tamimi, the resistance teen icon from Palestine, traveled to France Friday for an event where she asked people to support the Palestinian cause and to boycott Israel.

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Ahed Tamimi stans between her father Bassam and mother Nariman during a press conference on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 29, 2018. Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi and her mother Nariman returned home to a hero's welcome in her West Bank village on Sunday after Israel released the 17-year-old from prison at the end of her eight-month sentence for slapping an Israeli soldier .Majdi Mohammed | AP

Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian resistance icon, traveled to France for a debate on Friday. The young resistance leader was invited by L'Humanité newspaper and the French Communist party, or PCF, to participate in an event organized by Association France Palestine Solidarite. Ahed spoke Sunday at the Fete de L'Humanité (Festival of Humanity) which

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Ortega Warns of US Military Intervention, Open to Meeting Trump

In an interview aired Monday night, Nicaraguan President Ortega said he will talk to U.S. President Trump, but wants the U.S. government out of Nicaraguan affairs.

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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says he is open to meeting U.S. leader Donald Trump at the United Nations Security Council meeting this month despite the fact that he feels “under threat” from the country’s military amid interventionist comments and actions from the U.S., along with other regional right-wing governments. In an exclusive

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Palestinian Hospitals, Patients Latest Victims of US Funding Cuts

The U.S. State Department said that funding the Palestinian Authority was neither aligned to U.S. national interest nor of value to the U.S. taxpayer.

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to cut aid to hospitals in West Bank and Gaza will threaten the lives and livelihoods of thousands of Palestinians, experts say. In an official statement released Saturday, the U.S. State Department said that after reviewing a multi-million assistance program to the Palestinian Authority, it had decided

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US Forces Anti-Nicaragua Agenda On UN Security Council

The United States is trying to strong-arm the Security Council into discussing Nicaragua and Venezuela despite overwhelming lack of consensus.

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The U.N. Security Council meeting will move forward with a controversial decision to discuss Nicaragua and Venezuela, even without the consensus of all 15 members. On Tuesday, China, Russia, Bolivia and Ethiopia rejected the U.S. proposal to include Nicaragua and Venezuela on the council agenda, saying the two Latin American countries pose

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Britain’s Labour Party Just Adopted an Internationally Accepted Definition of Anti-Semitism

Labour said it also backed a statement that this “will not in any way undermine freedom of expression on Israel or the rights of Palestinians.”

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Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn waves as he arrives at Labour party headquarters in London, Friday, June 9, 2017. British Prime Minister Theresa May's gamble in calling an early election backfired spectacularly, as her Conservative Party lost its majority in Parliament and pressure mounted on her Friday to resign. (AP/Frank Augstein)

Britain’s Labour Party adopted an internationally accepted definition of anti-Semitism on Tuesday, trying to defuse a made-up controversy that has deepened rifts and heaped pressure on its leader at a time when the government is struggling over Brexit. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran campaigner for Palestinian rights, has been under fire

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After Lana Del Rey, 15 Artists Boycott Israel’s Meteor Festival

Concert cancellations grow by the day, as one by one, artists align in solidarity with the Palestinian movement.

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A total of 15 performers have joined the international campaign to boycott Israel’s Meteor Festival, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) confirmed Monday just a few days after U.S. pop singer Lana Del Rey, the festival's main guest, announced she was not attending the concert in a big victory for pro-Palestinian activists. Concert

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