Iranian students protested and shopkeepers went on strike Saturday despite a widening crackdown, according to reports on social media, as demonstrations that flared over Mahsa Amini’s death entered an eighth week. The clerical state has been gripped by…
Qatar demands accountability over Shireen Abu Akleh killing
Qatar’s assistant foreign minister has demanded that Israel be held accountable over the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Speaking on Friday at a conference in Vienna marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against …
Biden insists Democrats can win US midterms
President Joe Biden insisted on Friday that Democrats will win next week’s US midterm elections, but warned of a difficult two years if polls showing Republican victories prove correct. The 79-year-old, on a multi-state push in the final days before Tu…
Global statesmen: UN must be more muscular and united
The United Nations needs to be more muscular and united if it wants to stay relevant in tackling the world’s multiple escalating crises, a group of elder statesmen founded by Nelson Mandela said Friday. Former world leaders in the group known as ‘The E…
Israel’s Terminal Case of Election Fever
This week on The New Arab Voice, we’re examining the fallout from the latest Israeli elections and the settler violence that had blighted Palestinian communities in the West Bank during October. Israelis went to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new parl…
Trump ally Barrack acquitted of acting as UAE foreign agent
Tom Barrack, a onetime private equity executive and fundraiser for former President Donald Trump, was found not guilty by a jury on Friday of unlawfully acting as an agent of the United Arab Emirates, dealing a setback to the US Justice Department. Bar…
Khan says Pakistan PM Sharif had role in assassination plot
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on Friday accused his successor of involvement in a plot to kill him as he recovered in hospital from gunshot wounds following an assassination attempt. Khan told reporters that Shehbaz Sharif, who replaced him…
French far-right MP suspended over ‘back to Africa’ outburst
France’s National Assembly voted Friday to sanction a far-right MP with a rare 15-day suspension and pay cut after he yelled “back to Africa” at a black colleague, a clash that drew outrage across the political spectrum. Gregoire de Fournas, a newly-el…
Academics warn UN against IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
Over 100 scholars specializing in Jewish history, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism have urged the United Nations not to adopt a controversial definition of anti-Semitism propagated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The statemen…
No gender parity in new Tunisia electoral law: HRW
A new electoral law introduced by Tunisian President Kais Saied in September eliminated the principle of gender parity in elected assemblies, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report said earlier this week. “The new law strips gender parity provisions from a …