2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (684+ words) Hundreds of people demonstrated outside Israel’s embassy in Bangkok to demand foreigners show more respect for Thailand’s laws and culture as public discontent over bad behaviour by visitors has increasingly focused on Israeli tourists. “The era of gentle diplomatic pleasantries…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (574+ words) A protester called ex-home secretary Suella Braverman “Cruella Deville” in a speech outside Downing Street days after Hamas launched a deadly attack on Israel, a court has heard. Urslaan Khan, 44, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of expressing…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1313+ words) Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said “Britain will continue to act in support of our values” after his Government triggered a diplomatic row by announcing sanctions on illegal West Bank settlements. Mr Burnham said the action is aimed “not at…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (197+ words) The UK accused the Israeli government of turning a blind eye to the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians as Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband triggered a diplomatic row by announcing sanctions on illegal West Bank settlements. Both Israel and the US criticised…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (832+ words) The UK accused the Israeli government of turning a blind eye to the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians as Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband risked an international backlash by announcing sanctions on illegal West Bank settlements. Both Israel and the US have…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (382+ words) Andy Burnham’s plans to sanction Israel over illegal settlements in the West Bank could risk Britain’s national security and make it harder to fight terrorism, a senior Conservative has warned. Shadow foreign secretary Tom Tugendhat made the warning as he…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (488+ words) Some of the diaries of a prominent Palestinian lawyer, writer and human rights campaigner have been saved from the risk of destruction and preserved at a Scottish university. Through an estimated five million words, Raja Shehadeh has chronicled more than…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (633+ words) The Palestinian American whose home in the occupied West Bank has been besieged for more than a week has confronted Israeli settlers and demanded Israeli forces remove them from his property. But on his first day back at his home…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (431+ words) Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian described a nearly seven-hour meeting with Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in an interview with Iranian state television that aired amid apparent tensions among the Islamic Republic’s leaders. Mr Pezeshkian told the state-run IRIB on Monday that he…...