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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The proposed secondary tariffs were announced by President Donald Trump earlier this week in response to a violent crackdown on protesters in Iran.Some commentators have questioned whether such measures could be enforced, pointing to Iran’s trade links with more than 140 countries. Others have focused on China’s open opposition, noting that Beijing is Iran’s largest trading partner.Yet recent experience suggests that secondary tariffs can be far more damaging to the sanctioned country than to those doing business with it.What past examples say?A telling precedent is the United States’ action against India over its imports of Russian…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Revolutions differ from episodic unrest not by the scale of any single demonstration, but by their structure and direction. They are sustained rather than spontaneous; cumulative rather than cathartic. Their power lies in endurance, in the gradual erosion of legitimacy, authority, and administrative control, until the system itself becomes untenable.Compared with past protest waves, the current unrest appears more nationally synchronised, socially broad, and symbolically convergent. Equally significant is the re-emergence of a shared national language of opposition that Tehran has long sought to crush through ideology, patronage, and repression.This matters because revolutions do not target…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Despite a seemingly imminent US attack on Iran, IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Effie Defrin on Wednesday night said that there have been no changes to home front instructions.Defrin warned the Israeli public to ignore any rumors spreading during this volatile period and to only pay attention to official IDF messages.He reiterated prior messages that the IDF remains at its highest level of readiness to defend the country should Tehran use an American attack as an excuse to try to strike the Jewish state.Further, he added that the IDF is carefully following all developments.During the June 2025 Israel-Iran…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Human Rights Watch has written to the attorney general saying ministers’ claims that they cannot intervene in the hunger strike by Palestine Action-affiliated prisoners is “not fully true”.One of the demands by those refusing food is for immediate bail and the NGO says Richard Hermer, the government’s most senior law officer, could facilitate this by instructing prosecutors not to oppose their bail applications, although the government denied this.Heba Muraisi, 31, is on day 73 of her hunger strike, the same number of days as reached by the Irish republican hunger striker Kieran Doherty, who survived the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. There are layers of history in the ancient city of Acre (Akko), in northwest Israel, considered to be one of the longest continually inhabited cities in the Middle East. This video is from the Hospitaller Fortress, where you can try to imagine life during the times of the Crusades. As you wander through the tunnels and halls of the now-underground fortress, projected lights display moving images of the Knights Hospitaller (later known as the Knights…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed London, UK  —  Heba Muraisi knows exactly what is happening to her body. “My organs are slowly but surely shutting down,” she said late Monday via phone call from HMP New Hall, a prison in northern England. The 31-year-old Londoner and pro-Palestinian activist is refusing food as part of a coordinated hunger strike – the longest the United Kingdom has seen in decades. “I’m pushing through each day, consciously aware of each minute that goes by,” said Muraisi, now on day 73 of her hunger strike. CNN was not able to speak with her directly by…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed London, United Kingdom – Juliet Stevenson, one of Britain’s most recognisable actors who is widely regarded as a national treasure, has taken on a new role over the past two years.She has become a leading voice for Palestinians, marching at rallies, making speeches, signing protest letters, writing columns and producing films – using every opportunity to spell out the brutality of Israel’s atrocities on Gaza and the occupied West Bank.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listLast week, alongside dozens of other cultural icons such as Judi Dench, Meera Syal and Sienna Miller, Stevenson wrote to…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Five decades in the south Jordan valley were ending in a day, and Mahmoud Eshaq struggled to hold back his tears. The 55-year-old had not cried since he was a boy, but as he dismantled the family home and prepared to flee the village where his whole life had played out, he was overwhelmed by grief.While Eshaq’s children loaded mattresses, a fridge, sacks of flour and suitcases of clothes into a truck, masked soldiers escorted a teenage Israeli shepherd down the main village road, where he posed for photos on his donkey, flashing a V sign.The…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Strong winter winds collapsed walls onto flimsy tents for Palestinians displaced by war in Gaza, killing at least four people, as dangerous living conditions persist after more than two years of devastating Israeli bombardment and aid shortfalls.A ceasefire has been in effect since October, but aid groups say that Palestinians broadly lack the shelter necessary to withstand frequent winter storms.The dead include two women, a girl and a man, officials at the Shifa hospital, Gaza City’s largest, which received the bodies, said on Tuesday.The Gaza health ministry said on Tuesday that a one-year-old boy died of…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Keir Starmer has been offered a place on the Gaza “peace board” set up by Donald Trump as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.The prime minister was asked to sit on the board by a senior member of the Trump administration. The Guardian has been told that Starmer is expected to accept but has not yet received a formal invitation, while conversations about the exact makeup of the board are continuing.Starmer has cultivated a good relationship with the US president, despite their differences of opinion on the UK’s decision to recognise the state…