India has demolished at least ten homes over the last week belonging to suspected rebels in the region after 26 people were killed in an attack in Pahalgam, Indian-controlled Kashmir, in April.

The ongoing demolitions have sparked anger with locals, who call the punishment an "Israeli tactic".

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a meeting with the military’s top brass in New Delhi, gave India's armed forces "complete operational freedom."

"It was dark when the Indian armed forces cordoned off the village in large numbers and directed us to leave our houses," Ashiq Ahmad, a villager, told MEE.

"After some time, the earth beneath our feet shook," Ashiq said, describing the explosion they heard from a mosque some distance away, where locals had been forcibly held for hours.

"When we came out after two hours, we found many houses destroyed and razed to the ground," he said. "We were mourning the whole night."

Since the early 2000s, writer and activist David Horowitz has been at the center of a movement that claimed to defend free speech while portraying Muslims and leftists as existential threats to Western civilization. In the aftermath of 9/11, Horowitz called for the profiling of “Palestinian” and “Islamic” people and infamously stated that “the Palestinians are Nazis.”

Through the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC), founded in 1998, he and his donors built a media and policy network that shaped the careers of nearly every major pro-Trump conservative figure active today. The Southern Poverty Law Center designated the DHFC a hate group, and it has received anonymous dark money routed through Donors Trust, which has also funded white nationalist causes.

Following Horowitz’s death on April 29, 2025, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk acknowledged his influence: “Without David Horowitz, I’m not sure Turning Point USA would exist. Over 90% of our earliest major donors were introduced

A top House Democrat is stepping down from a key committee post and not running for reelection months after beating out socialist Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) for his current position.

Representative Gerry Connolly (D., Va.), 75, announced Monday he is stepping down as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, a high-profile congressional panel, and ending his decades-long political career.

A Palestinian paramedic who was the sole survivor of an Israeli attack in Rafah last month that killed eight of his colleagues was released by Israel on Tuesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said.

In footage shared by the PRCS, an emotional Asaad al-Nasasrah is seen being welcomed by fellow medics “after 37 days in detention by the occupation forces.”

Al-Nasasrah “arrived in poor health” at the Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis, “where he underwent the necessary medical examinations.” He was reportedly among at least 10 Palestinian detainees who were released into Gaza.

US President Donald Trump has claimed that India and Pakistan have been “fighting for 1,500 years” over Kashmir, amid the recent rise in tensions between the two rival South Asian nations.

Last week, an attack in Pahalgam in Indian-occupied Kashmir killed 26 people, with Indian tourists being the primary targets in the shooting claimed by the Resistance Front group, which India claims is linked to and supported by Pakistan.

Trump’s comments have since been ridiculed by many as a gaffe, particularly due to the fact that the establishment of Pakistan and the partition of the Indian subcontinent took place in 1947. That was barely 78 years ago, in contrast to the president’s remarks of the conflict over Kashmir being 1,500-years-old, making it historically impossible.

Exercise can counter the detrimental effects of cancer treatment, according to the most comprehensive review of its kind.

Several studies have evaluated how physical activity affects the health outcomes of patients with the disease, but significant gaps in the evidence have remained until now.

The review of pooled data analyses of randomised controlled trial results published between 2012 and 2024 suggests that exercise can significantly reduce side-effects associated with treatment for cancer, such as heart and nerve damage and brain fog. Before this study, no such comprehensive evaluation had been published.

The Biden administration allowed Israel unprecedented leeway to carry out its military offensive, despite the enormous death and devastation it inflicted on Gaza. Former Israeli ambassador, Michael Herzog, made a startling admission about Biden’s support:

“God did the State of Israel a favour that Biden was the president during this period. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.”

His remarks encapsulated a broader sentiment that the White House gave Benjamin Netanyahu all the political space he needed to execute the military offensive, which has claimed the lives of more than 52,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children.

The Biden administration allowed Israel unprecedented leeway to carry out its military offensive, despite the enormous death and devastation it inflicted on Gaza. Former Israeli ambassador, Michael Herzog, made a startling admission about Biden’s support:

“God did the State of Israel a favour that Biden was the president during this period. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.”

His remarks encapsulated a broader sentiment that the White House gave Benjamin Netanyahu all the political space he needed to execute the military offensive, which has claimed the lives of more than 52,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children.

Denunciations are rapidly mounting in Europe of the ceasefire that factions within Washington are trying to broker to end the three-year NATO-Russia war in Ukraine. Behind these attacks lie bitter rivalries between Washington and the European imperialist powers over the plunder of Ukraine and more broadly over how to divide the world economy between them amid the accelerating global trade war over Trump’s tariffs.

The proposal imposes on Ukraine a US-Ukrainian “economic cooperation/minerals agreement,” expected to allow Washington to pocket a staggering $500 billion in Ukrainian revenue. It also demands US control of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is currently inoperative in Russian-held territory. In exchange, it would remove economic sanctions imposed on Russia since the 2014 NATO-backed putsch in Kiev and pledge “US-Russian cooperation” on energy.

The ceasefire would not prepare a lasting peace but would freeze a war that has claimed millions of Ukrainian and Russian

Anti-genocide protests which have taken place regularly in Morocco escalated to coincide with the arrival of the Nexoe Maersk (flagged in Hong Kong) and another container ship involved in the onward transit of the components to Israel, the US-flagged Maersk Detroit. It is understood that the F-35 parts were en route to the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, a pivotal location for the Israeli Air Force’s war against the Palestinians.

On Sunday April 20, according to the Drop Site independent news outlet, “18 out of 20 remote crane controllers on the first shift” at Tangier Port “refused to operate machinery to service the ship believed to be carrying F-35 parts. On the second shift, 27 of 30 workers reportedly joined the refusal.”

The workers blockade in Tangier followed a boycott, April 18, by dockworkers backed by thousands of protesters at Casablanca port as the Nexoe Maersk arrived. This followed a call on April 14 by the Union of Port Workers in Morocco, for “workers, users and

LA GRAND COMBE, France (AP) — A man suspected of killing a Muslim worshipper in a mosque in the south of France was still on the run Sunday, authorities said, in an attack described by Prime Minister Francois Bayrou as Islamophobic.

Both men were alone in the mosque in the former mining town of La Grand Combe on Friday when the victim was fatally stabbed. The assailant recorded the attack on his phone, and security camera footage showed him shouting insults at “Allah,” which means God in Arabic, local media said.

President Trump said he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week on the aid blockage to the Gaza Strip, telling him “We’ve got to be good to Gaza.”

“Those people are suffering,” Trump told reporters Friday on Air Force One as he revealed what he said to Netanyahu during a phone on Tuesday.

Trump, in his first public comments about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the region, said there’s a “very big need” for food and medicine in the region. “We’re going to take care of that,” he added.

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have sat down for a face-to-face talk in the opulent halls of a Vatican basilica to discuss a possible ceasefire, after which the US president accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of not wanting to “stop the war”.

The White House described Trump’s meeting with the Ukrainian leader before Pope Francis’s funeral as “very productive”, while Zelenskyy said on X that the talk with the US president was symbolic and had the “potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results”.

It was the first time that Zelenskyy and Trump had met face to face after a frosty February encounter in the White House where Trump and the US vice-president, JD Vance, berated the Ukrainian leader and accused him of ingratitude for US aid.

“The Nova community was built on the ideals of peace, freedom, and unity through music,” reads a solemn message from the Tribe of Nova Foundation, which was immediately re-broadcast on social media by at least one former official Israeli propagandist. “Our festival was a space where people came together – across cultures and beliefs – to celebrate life. That’s why we believe that even in the face of ignorance or provocation, our response must be rooted in empathy, not hate.”

A review of one of the group’s cofounder’s online activities, however, reveals that rather than the peace-loving hippie he purports to be, he’s taken an active and ambitious role in Israeli intelligence operations in the time since October 7.

On Oct 8, Arnin co-founded “Cobalt Complex, an autonomous OSINT & civilian web intelligence (WEBINT) operations center that operated independently to support Israel’s intelligence apparatus at the outset of the Iron Swords War,” he wrote on his LinkedIn profile, using the of

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that “a burn injury is more than just a wound – it is a prolonged sentence of suffering, and this is even more so in Gaza, Palestine,” following over 19 months of attacks by the Israeli forces, causing the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system.

MSF said in a statement, “Many people have extensive burns covering large portions of their bodies – some people have as much as 40 per cent of their total body surface burned,” due to “bomb explosions and improvised cooking methods.”

The organisation stated that “since the Israeli forces resumed hostilities on 18 March, MSF teams have seen an increase in the number of patients with burn injuries – most of them children,” noting that “in April, in our clinic in Gaza City in the north of Gaza, MSF teams are seeing an average of over 100 patients with burns and injuries a day.”

The comparison between India's control over Kashmir and Israel's occupation of Palestine has long been made by academics and activists. Now, prominent Indian figures are invoking the connection themselves.

Following an attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir, there have been widespread calls for an "Israel-like" retaliation by law enforcement, high-profile commentators, and members of the public.

As the Indian response unfolds, experts warned to Middle East Eye that the implementation of the "Israel playbook" will create impunity around the state’s treatment of Kashmiris.

On Tuesday, gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists near central Pahalgam, killing at least 26 tourists, primarily from India. While media footage and eyewitness accounts from the incident have captured the role of Kashmiri locals in protecting tourists immediately after the attack, many members of the Indian public have called for a vengeful response against both Kashmiris and Muslims, referencing Isra

Hundreds of people have been injured following a massive explosion and fire at the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, more than 1,000km (620 miles) south of capital Tehran, according to officials and state media.

Iran’s state media on Saturday reported a “massive explosion” at Shahid Rajaee, the country’s largest commercial port located in Hormozgan province on Iran’s southern coast.

Iranian state television said initial reports indicate negligence in the storage of flammable materials at the site. In May 2020, Israel was accused of launching a major cyberattack on the same port, causing transport chaos for days after crashing the facility’s computer system.

The party, which has been classified in some quarters as being securely on the extreme right, climbed to 26% approval in the Sunday poll conducted by the opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of RTL/ntv. In the Bundestag elections, the party had received 20.8% of the vote.

It is closely followed by the CDU/CSU, which is still below its result in the general election (28.5%) with a current 25%. The SPD achieved 15 percent (16.4 percent) in the Forsa survey. The Greens are virtually unchanged at 11% (11.6%), while the Left Party is at 9% (8.8%). The FDP and BSW both achieve four percent.

If federal elections were held on Sunday, the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats would no longer have a majority. They had negotiated a coalition agreement after the election, which now needs to be ratified. CDU leader Friedrich Merz is to be elected Chancellor in the Bundestag on May 6.

The plans, hatched by Sweden’s rightwing government with support of its far-right backers, made waves around the world. Politicians said they were working to strip citizenship from dual nationals who had been convicted of some crimes.

The concept also made a cameo in Germany’s February election after Friedrich Merz – whose centre-right CDU/CSU bloc emerged victorious in the ballot – told the newspaper Welt it should be possible to revoke German citizenship in the case of dual nationals who commit criminal offences.

The proposal was swiftly criticised, with one political commentator pointing out that it would result in some being “Germans on probation” for their entire lives. “They can never truly be German. One mistake, one crime – and their Germanness is gone,” the journalist and political commentator Gilda Sahebi wrote on social media. “It doesn’t matter if they were born here or if their family has lived in Germany for generations.”

Merz’s idea, she added, had laid bare the norma