Brazil's #RiodeJaneiro rests 120 burial shrouds on Copacabana #Beach to symbolise the memory of #Palestinian children who were killed by Israeli military's onslaught on #Gaza.
وجّه الرئيس البرازيلي، لويس إيناسيو لولا دا سيلفا هجومًا غير مباشر على الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب، دون تسميته، وفي انتقاد لافت للنبرة التصعيدية في الخطاب الدولي، قائلًا: "لا يمكننا أن نستيقظ كل صباح ونذهب إلى النوم كل ليلة دائمًا مع رسالة من رئيس يهدد العالم ويعلن الحروب".
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Smah Alloush, a 26-year-old young woman from southern Lebanon, was happy she would return to her home after only one day of displacement. "The shortest displacement," she celebrated.
She was killed today in an Israeli bombing.
Senator Sheehy joined Capitol Police in lifting up and ejecting anti war protestor Brian McGinnis from a SASC subcommittee hearing. McGinnis is a Green Party candidate running for Senate in N.C. An antiwar activist filmed the video below:
"Brazil signalled conditional openness to joining a proposed international “Peace Council” on Gaza, with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stressing that any such framework must include Palestinian representation to be credible.
In a recorded interview with Brazilian news outlet Universo Online (UOL) on Thursday, Lula said Brazil would consider participation only if the council’s mandate is limited to Gaza and Palestinians are present at the table. “Any path that does not include Palestinians cannot be considered a peace committee,” he said.
Lula revealed that he conveyed this position directly to US President Donald Trump, telling him that Brazil has “every interest” in participating if the initiative is genuinely focused on Gaza. He criticised ideas circulating about post-war reconstruction, arguing that some proposals resemble “a tourist resort more than reconstruction,” and questioned who would rebuild homes, hospitals, and bakeries destroyed during the war.
The Brazilian president also said he had spoken with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, expressing Brazil’s readiness to take part in any serious international effort, while reiterating that Palestinian inclusion is a non-negotiable condition.
The interview coincided with the circulation of images showing Lula wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh after receiving it from the newly appointed Palestinian ambassador to Brazil, Marwan Jibril, during the presentation of credentials ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasília earlier this week.
On relations with Washington, Lula said he is working to arrange a visit to the United States, likely in the first week of March, for a face-to-face meeting with Trump. He said discussions between them should be direct, describing Brazil and the United States as the “two largest democracies in the West.” Lula added that no subject is off limits for him, except Brazil’s sovereignty, which he described as “sacred.”"
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US political pressure in Latin America has helped open the door for growing Israeli influence, but longstanding solidarity with the Palestinian cause hasn't withered away, regional experts have told Middle East Eye
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Civil society groups in Chile have initiated an international campaign to expel Israel from the United Nations.
They cite Article 6 of the UN Charter, which allows for the expulsion of a member state that persistently violates the organization's principles.
There will be a new meeting in the United States between President Trump and President Claudia Sheinbaum on January 22 and 23, the Mexican president announced, stating that it was agreed upon during a phone call that lasted about 15 minutes.
Unbelievable. After months of propaganda claiming Maduro is the head of the dangerous drug-smuggling cartel, the US government has admitted it was all a ruse in order to kidnap a sitting head of state.
Brazil's Health Minister, Antonio Padilha, says the government is sending drugs, doctors & medical equipment to Venezuela in response to the US bombing of a dialysis center there. "We can't forget that Venezuela sent 135,000m³ of Oxygen to Manaus during the pandemic," he said.
Reports say that:
Maduro’s wife insisted on staying with her husband, President Maduro, during the abduction operation from their home, saying she would not leave him alone.