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Israel plans major West Bank settlement expansion despite legality concerns
Israel announces plans for over 2,000 new West Bank homes, escalating tensions amid international concerns over legality and peace efforts.…
Israel plans big West Bank settlement push many see as illegal
JERUSALEM, June 3 - Israel's hardline finance minister announced on Wednesday a major expansion by more than 2,000 homes of three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank that …
$4M settlement after gender reveal ignited deadly SoCal wildfire
Wholesale Fireworks Corp. and American Fireworks Wholesale LLC will pay $4 million, while Pink or Blue Gender Team Inc. adds $500,000 for damages.…
Filing: a Kentucky school district secured ~$27M in settlements from Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube in a social media harms lawsuit; Meta paid the most, at $9M (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters : Filing: a Kentucky school district secured ~$27M in settlements from Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube in a social media harms lawsuit; Meta paid the mo…
Rise in women misusing law to get lucrative settlements: SC
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday flagged a "worrying trend" of women misusing laws on dowry harassment, domestic violence and Pocso by filing frivolous and vexatious complaint ag…
Lior Amihai, director of Israeli NGO Peace Now: 'The coalition in power wants to annex the territories in the West Bank and establish a racist state based on Jewish supremacy'
Driven by a messianic ideology, Benjamin Netanyahu's government has bureaucratized the expansion of West Bank settlements since late 2022. But according to the director of a major …
‘Dangerous colonial occupation’: Israel’s digital West Bank land register
A digital register of land ownership in the West Bank is seen as an escalation of Israel's occupation.…
EU sanctions ‘extremist’ Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank
European Union says sanctioned individuals and groups have violated the rights of Palestinians.…
Bank for International Settlements tests digital cross-border payments prototype with seven central banks
The BIS and seven central banks begin real-value testing of Project Agorá, a tokenized cross-border payment prototype using distributed ledger technology.…
‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ revives yearslong fight over Democrat-backed settlements
Trump’s $1.8 billion fund has reignited scrutiny of Obama-era DOJ settlement practices and years-old Judgment Fund abuses.…
Ireland to ban goods from Israeli settlements in West Bank by July
DUBLIN, May 26 - Ireland aims to pass a law curbing goods trade with settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank by mid-July with Israel, some U.S. lawmakers and business groups …
Albanese joins coalition of nations calling for an end to Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank
Australia joins the UK, Italy, France, Germany, Canada, Norway, the Netherlands and New Zealand in condemning illegal settlements Get our breaking news email , free app or daily ne…
X402 processes $50M in payments as OpenRouter transitions to the protocol for AI settlements
Coinbase's x402 protocol has processed $50M in USDC payments across 2,000+ APIs, and OpenRouter is transitioning to the protocol for AI agent settlements.…
Italy, France, UK, Germany urge Israel to end settlement expansion
The joint statement argued that Israel is 'undermining stability,' noting that settler violence towards Palestinians is at 'unprecedented levels.' The statement came at the end of …
Western powers condemn Israel for West Bank settlements, settler violence
The joint statement emphasized Israel's E1 settlement expansion project as a violation of international law.…
Western powers press Israel to rein in settlers, halt expansion
ROME, May 22 - Israel must halt the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and curb growing settler violence, seven major Western nations said on Friday, accusing the Israeli go…
Netherlands proposes ban on import, sale of goods from Israeli West Bank settlements
The Cabinet-proposed sanctions would prohibit Dutch nationals and legal entities, both inside and outside the Netherlands, from importing, buying, or selling goods produced in sett…
Irish bill to curb trade with Israeli settlements due in 'coming weeks', minister says
Ireland has been drafting the proposed legislation for the last year and has faced pressure from opposition politicians to include a ban on services as well as goods.…
Israeli settlers burn vehicles, install caravans in occupied West Bank
Palestinian residents say Israeli settlers burned vehicles, sprayed racist graffiti, and installed new outposts.…
Israeli minister orders West Bank hamlet evicted after hearing he may face arrest warrant overseas
Israel’s finance minister has ordered the eviction of a Palestinian village in the West Bank…
Sen. Coons asks Blanche if settlements from "anti-weaponization" fund will be made public
Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, asked acting Attorney General Todd Blanche if the settlements from President Trump's "anti-weaponization" fund will be made public. Blanche i…
Far-right Israeli minister accuses ICC of making 'secret' request to arrest him
Reports have been circulating that the ICC is preparing to issue warrants against Israel's far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich.…
Gunmen kill 10 in attack on farming settlements in Nigeria's northwest, residents say
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 18 - Gunmen killed at least 10 people, including women and children, in an attack on a rural community in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina State on Sunday dur…