Norway is bracing for the repercussions of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday amid mounting pressure from Donald Trump and his administration to secure the award for the US president. US President Donald Trump has been vocal that he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize in 2025.(AP) Trump has not shied away from lobbying for…
President Donald Trump’s potentially historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas, which aims to finally release all the remaining hostages taken on October 7, 2023, faces several significant hurdles even as the administration remains positive it can close the deal. “No one said this is going to be easy. This is good progress, but a…
On the ground, the two-state solution is more remote than ever. Trust between the two peoples of the Holy Land is plumbing historic depths, as Israel’s military campaign in Gaza—by far the deadliest round of war in the century-old conflict—escalates once more. Polls, which in the 1990s and early 2000s consistently indicated majority support on…
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Madrid, protesting an Israeli team’s participation in a major multiweek cycling race as well as the ongoing war in Gaza, forced the race to end early on Sunday. Why It Matters For days, the race passed through Spanish towns and cities lined with posters and flags that included…
The Gaza aid crunch is starting to abate, as local prices fall. Why are Gazans paying for aid at all? Well, the United Nations says 87% of the aid trucks that it and its partners have tried to deliver since May 19 have been “intercepted” by mobs or “armed actors.” Much of the food ends…