The Montreal Victoire are Walter Cup champions, becoming the first Canadian franchise to capture the PWHL title. Forward Abby Roque scored two goals, while Ann-Renée Desbiens pitched a shutout in the ...

The first Mother’s Day proclamation was a call to disarm. It’s more crucial than ever to honor the day’s antiwar roots.

Zeteo's Alex Colston gives a terrifying account of the night Israel abducted 180 activists, humanitarians, and journalists, and he explains what's next for the mission to break Israel's siege of Gaza.

Meead Abu al-Rub speaks to MEE about the Italian magazine cover that has made her famous, and about what armed Israeli settlers did that day

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The Palestinian-led BDS movement calls for intensifying BDS pressure against companies involved in genocidal Israel’s prison complex and its crimes against Palestinian prisoners, particularly Microsof...

Many World Cup ticket holders felt deceived this month when FIFA assigned precise seat numbers to their already-purchased tickets. At the same time, FIFA hiked ticket prices for nearly every game — in...

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More than 700 have been arrested since the Gaza genocide began, enduring brutal conditions of starvation, isolation and humiliation

In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we speak with Eyal Weizman, architect, scholar, and founder of Forensic Architecture - a research agency that uses spatial investigation to expose state violence and human rights abuses. We trace the roots of what Eyal calls an architecture of occupation and ethnic cleansing - a project stretching back to 1948 and unfolding across Gaza, the West Bank, and inside Israel itself. From settlements to bypass roads, from home demolitions to surveillance towers, we look at how space is used to control, fragment, and displace Palestinian life. UNAPOLOGETIC is a show that unapologetically looks at the life, times and views of some unapologetic and not so unapologetic humans. Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim

The Montreal Canadiens have won seven straight games, and with seven games remaining, a playoff spot is almost a certainty. Brian Wilde has more.

A Tehran-based journalist maps the human toll of the mass destruction US-Israeli strikes have caused on the country's health and education systems.

Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.

Report says destruction of mosques in Gaza and restrictions on worship at Al-Aqsa form part of systematic campaign to 'obliterate Palestinian life'

An exclusive Drop Site/Zeteo/Data For Progress survey also finds likely American voters are split on whether Trump is more responsive to the American people or to Israel.