Spain, Slovenia and Ireland have asked the EU to discuss the suspension of its association treaty with Israel, Spanish FM Jose Manuel Albares said ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Iran war complicates WHO's emergency medical supply routes The ​World Health Organization is finding other routes to deliver emergency medical supplies ‌from its Dubai hub to crises such as Lebanon via long overland journeys, an official said, but rising fuel...

The WHO is finding other routes to deliver emergency medical supplies ‌from its Dubai hub to crises such as Lebanon via long overland journeys, an official said, but rising fuel costs could hamper shipments if the Iran war persists reut.rs/4c7JzNj

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Il Board of Peace è un comitato d’affari - Articolo21 Il Board of Peace è un comitato d’affari, è il tentativo di privatizzare le relazioni internazionali. È la legge del più forte; il più forte – Donald Trump – che si circonda di meno forti pronti però ...

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Quel board of peace trasformato in un comitato d’affari di @riccardocucchi.bsky.social @articolo21.bsky.social @smaurizi.bsky.social @moonlightshad1.bsky.social @mascaweb.bsky.social @stefanocorradino.bsky.social

Il tribunale: fermo illegittimo, l’Italia risarcisca Sea Watch. L’ira di Meloni sui giudici: “Senza parole” La sentenza dei giudici di Palermo. Il caso del giugno 2019, la nave guidata da Carola Rackete

Di scandaloso in questa vicenda è che ci sono voluti sette anni per avere la sentenza.

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Nice game of scrabble @nytimes.com but the opponents matching system sucks…no way to accept or refuse it, hence no way to be matched with someone who actually wants (or is there to) play right and then. Massive loss of time. Lots of improvements to be done to make it really enjoyable, I’ m afraid

Ce que montre l’enquête du Monde diplomatique sur le vin en Cisjordanie dépasse largement la question de l’étiquetage ou de la fraude commerciale. 🪡 Fil en 10 points. ↓

Ce n’est donc pas seulement une histoire de vignobles, mais une illustration très concrète de la manière dont une colonisation contemporaine s’articule à la mondialisation, au commerce international et à l’ambiguïté juridique européenne. (10/10)
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Oil and gas are some of the biggest causes of the climate crisis, putting people's lives, homes and livelihoods in danger – and putting winter sports at risk too

Oil and gas giant Eni, is using the #WinterOlympics to greenwash its fossil-fuelled destruction

Polluters shouldn't get a podium

Outrage is growing in Italy over the deployment ICE agents to assist US security operations at the Winter Olympics next month. https://cnn.it/3NJAMre

The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, the second Minneapolis resident killed by federal agents this month, follows weeks of violent and abusive immigration enforcement actions in the city.

HRW analyzed and verified eight videos showing before, during, and after the shooting: https://bit.ly/4riahYt

Mongabay's Mozambique coverage wins award, screens at a film festival - Environmental Journalism and Education In April 2025, Mongabay’s video team published an investigative film about price of Europe’s paper packaging boom, which is having an outsized effect in far away Mozambique. The rise in e-commerce has...

[nonprofit #journalism impact] @mongabay.com's team investigated impacts of EU desires for recyclable paper packing:

➡️ Mozambique thus became home to giant eucalyptus plantations that communities in Portugal now reject, displacing farmers & poisoning waterways

🏆 A new award spreads their story:

Italy: End Border Control Pact with Libya Italy should revoke its damaging migrant cooperation agreement with Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. The Italy-Libya Memorandum of Understanding on migration cooperation will renew automatically ...

“Italy needs to stop its complicity with the Libyan Coast Guard, who are implicated in the torture, exploitation, and degrading treatment of the people they interdict and bring back to Libya.”
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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Opinion: Why the Trump-Blair Gaza plan is unlawful <article data-history-node-id="429556" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-why-trump-blair-gaza-plan-unlawful" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-why-trump-blair-gaza-plan-unlawful" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Opinion: Why the Trump-Blair Gaza plan is unlawful</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>In a column for Middle East Eye,&nbsp;Ralph Wilde, a professor of international law, lays out the legality of the proposed international trusteeship of Gaza involving Donald Trump and Tony Blair.&nbsp;</p> <p>He writes: "Befitting his role as an icon of western liberal interventionism, Blair’s association with the Gaza trusteeship builds on the tradition of western humanitarians who sought to “humanise” colonialism by grafting onto it a duty of care.&nbsp;</p> <p>This concept of “<a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/international-territorial-administration-9780199274321?cc=mt&amp;lang=en&amp;" target="_blank">trusteeship over people</a>” was adopted by Europeans for colonial rule over Africa at the Berlin Conference in the late 19th century; by the League of Nations after the First World War for the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/mandate-League-of-Nations" target="_blank">Mandate territories</a>;&nbsp;and by the United Nations after the Second World War for the&nbsp;<a href="https://research.un.org/en/docs/tc/territories" target="_blank">Trust Territories</a>&nbsp;and all other&nbsp;<a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/chapter-11" target="_blank">non-settler colonies</a>.</p> <p>Trusteeship assumes a world divided between “child-like” people incapable of looking after themselves - a characterisation now applied to the Palestinian people of Gaza - and “adults”, such as Blair et al, who are able to rule over not only their own people, but also others.</p> <p>Falling into the “child” category is the rationale for requiring trusteeship. In the League of Nations&nbsp;<a href="https://libraryresources.unog.ch/ld.php?content_id=32971179" target="_blank">Covenant</a>, the people of the mandates were “not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world”.&nbsp;</p> <p>The child/adult relationship is the rationale for the duty of care - the adult is in charge, but must act in the interests of the “ward”. The adult’s responsibility is to “bring up” the child so it will eventually attain maturity. To conduct tutelage, enabling “development”.</p> <p>The Gaza trusteeship will thus be temporary, because it is transitional: the adults will build up local capacities for self-administration; the children will consequentially mature and attain adulthood, and the need for trusteeship will then end."</p> <h3>Opinion:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-trump-blair-gaza-plan-is-unlawful">Why the Trump-Blair Gaza plan is unlawful</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks in New York City on 21 September 2022 (John Lamparski/Getty Images/AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="36c47629-8565-40be-ae47-2cc98ffa9f06" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/uk-blair-speaks-new-york-september-2022-john-lamparski-getty-images-afp.jpeg" width="1400" height="788" alt="Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks in New York City on 21 September 2022 (John Lamparski/Getty Images/AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks in New York City on 21 September 2022 (John Lamparski/Getty Images/AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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Tenete lontano da Gaza le mani sporche di sangue di tony blair scrive @thenation.com

Difficile dare torto a chi ricorda il ruolo di Blair nella sanguinosa e tragica invasione dell’Iraq, nel castello di bugie che portarono a quel disastro e a seguire i suoi “traffici” da lobbysta

So the Israeli naval officer issuing threats to the Global Sumud Flotilla has an American accent.

Israeli interception of Alma illegal under international law, UN Rapporteur says <article data-history-node-id="429495" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-interception-alma-illegal-under-international-law-un-rapporteur" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-interception-alma-illegal-under-international-law-un-rapporteur" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli interception of Alma illegal under international law, UN Rapporteur says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel's interception of the Alma vessel in the global Sumud Flotilla is unlawful,&nbsp;<meta charset="UTF-8">Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, told MEE.</p> <p>Albanese said the interception is unlawful under two basic premises.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip is illegal under international law, Albanese said, adding, "it makes no sense whatsoever."&nbsp;</p> <p>Additional, Albanese noted that even under ordinary circumstances, the interception of vessels in international water behaving in a clearly peaceful manner is illegal under international law.&nbsp;</p> <p>The flotilla is roughly 80 nautical miles from the coast of Gaza. Territorial waters extend for maximum 12 nautical miles.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israeli interception of Alma illegal under international law, UN Rapporteur says - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-upda...

Il problema delle batterie è sotto gli occhi di tutti. Ogni anno, solo in Italia, vengono buttate circa 260 milioni di pile; a livello mondiale il numero sale a oltre 15 miliardi. Questo significa quasi 300k tonnellate di rifiuti tossici che finiscono nell’ambiente

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uh! com'è difficile restare calmi e indifferenti
mentre tutti intorno fanno rumore
in quest'epoca di pazzi ci mancavano gli idioti dell'orrore.

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Crosetto autorizza l’invio di una fregata italiana per la protezione della Flotilla. Forse è l’unico che ha capito che abbiamo a che fare con un esercito di criminali di guerra.

Il più intenso attacco contro la Global Sumud Flotilla
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Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

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La flottille pour Gaza affirme qu'un autre de ses bateaux a été touché et soupçonne un drone La flottille pour Gaza a affirmé qu'un autre de ses bateaux avait été touché dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi près de Tunis et dit soupçonner un drone, 24 heures après un incident similaire.

La flottille pour Gaza affirme qu'un autre de ses bateaux a été touché et soupçonne un drone

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