As Russia and the US both threaten to resume nuclear testing and China has tripled its stock of nuclear arms, former foreign minister Gareth Evans has written an essay for Australian Foreign Affairs M...

On October 28, conservative Governor of Rio, Cláudio Castro, ordered over 2,500 police officers and soldiers to storm the city’s favelas at dawn. The goal was to capture leaders of the notorious Coman...

Demonstrators demand inquiry after operation on Tuesday in which at least 121 people were killed

'The genocide in Gaza was not committed in isolation, but as part of a system of global complicity.' That's the conclusion of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories, ...

While Donald Trump’s presidency might seem chaotic from the outside as the US appears to be retreating from its former role as a global superpower, intelligence analyst Clinton Fernandes says that beh...

Everyone is ignoring the science on what Meta’s generative AI investment really costs, even though there's no evidence of a single, significant societal benefit.

In June Israel launched a surprise 12 day long attack on Iran. The US joined in, damaging much of their nuclear infrastructure and large parts of Tehran. Now England, Germany and France have weighed i...

<article data-history-node-id="428738" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-kill-17-people-gaza-dawn" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-kill-17-people-gaza-dawn" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli attacks kill 17 people in Gaza since dawn</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Seventeen Palestinians, including seven in Gaza City, were killed and others wounded on Wednesday in ongoing Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, the official Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources.</p> <p>Medical sources said on Tuesday that 108 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip, including 93 in the north, nine in the central area and six in the south.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to a report by a United Nations Commision of Inquiry. The Commission, established by the UN Human Rights Council, concluded that Israeli authorities "i...

Last week PM Albanese announced Australia plans to list Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation after ASIO revealed links to antisemitic attacks in Melbourne and Sydney.  ...

The latest national statistics show Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to 4.2 per cent. But for Australians with autism, the figure soars to above 30 per cent. This is something Australian Spat...

Dr Samah Jabr is a world-renowned psychiatrist who has spent over twenty years practising in the West Bank and Gaza. In a powerful interview, she describes the psychological impact the war in Gaza is ...

A new Netflix documentary investigates the evangelical forces behind Jair Bolsanaro in Brazil, and how the seeds of the movement were planted in the 1970s by American televangelist Billy Graham. The f...

Ted Kotcheff, director of the 1971 Australian cult classic Wake in Fright has died at the age of 94. David Stratton pays tribute to the Canadian director who captured a distinctly Australian horror st...

Exclusive: Government could redirect billions in existing spending on the childcare subsidy and introduce a daily flat fee for families

Where do the arms involved in conflicts worldwide come from and who bears responsibility for how they are used in war? The US is by far the world's largest weapons manufacturer and exporter, accounti...

The national debt in the United States now sits at over $USD36 trillion, with a debt-to-GDP ratio around 124 percent – it’s what some economists call the death zone. President Donald Trump is hoping h...

Iraq's stunning marshlands are believed to be the location of the biblical Garden of Eden, in ancient Mesopotamia. They were destroyed by Saddam Hussein, then restored by the work of Dr Azzam Alwash a...