2024-07-01: News Headlines

newarab (2024-07-01). Israel's foreign minister says Iran is 'worthy of destruction'. newarab.com ‚Å "A regime that threatens destruction deserves to be destroyed," Katz said in a post on X. He also said Israel will act with full force against Iran-backed Hezbollah if it does not stop firing at Israel from Lebanon and move away from the border. | Iran's UN mission said on Friday that if Israel embarks on a "full-scale military aggression" in Lebanon, "an obliterating war will e…

Amos Harel (2024-07-01). Fear of a full-blown conflict in Lebanon looms, with members of Israel's government stoking it. haaretz.com Criticism over the governments' inability to allow some 60,000 Israelis to return to their homes near the Lebanese border is mounting. The government may be tempted to seek a way out of the deadlock with Hezbollah and risk a full-scale war…

Staff (2024-07-01). IDF soldier killed in south Gaza fighting, Israeli army announces. haaretz.com Rocket hit a house in Metula, city's council says ‚ñ Palestinians say woman, teen killed by IDF in West Bank ‚ñ Spain asks to join ICJ genocide charges against Israel ‚ñ Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital director released after being held in Israel for seven months ‚ñ IDF: 20 rockets fired from Gaza at Israeli southern border communities ‚ñ BBC report: West Bank Palestinians say they were forced by IDF soldiers on top of army jeep hood…

newarab (2024-07-01). Algeria police raid book event, briefly arrest French author. newarab.com Algerian police briefly arrested a French author and her Algerian publisher along with others during a raid on her book event, the publisher told French news agency AFP on Sunday. | Dominique Martre, author of "La Kabylie en partage" ("Shared Kabylia"), was arrested alongside her husband and the owner of the bookshop, said Arezki Ait-Larbi, director of the Koukou publishing house, who was himself detained. | "The police stormed the bookstore at the start of the book presentation on Saturday afternoon and arrested everyone who was in the hall," Ait-Larbi said. | "We were taken to the police station before we we…

ecns.cn (2024-07-01). Travel to mainland to be more convenient for non-Chinese permanent residents of HK, Macao. ecns.cn China's immigration authorities announced on Monday a new measure that will make it more convenient for non-Chinese permanent residents of Hong Kong and Macao to travel to the mainland.

ecns.cn (2024-07-01). Non-Chinese permanent residents of HK, Macao can apply for mainland travel permit starting from July 10. ecns.cn Starting from July 10, 2024, travel documents for entering and exiting the mainland will be issued to non-Chinese permanent residents of Hong Kong and Macao: National Immigration Administration.

Emmanuelle Carton (2024-07-01). The Pact on Migration and Asylum: another step forward for necropolitics in Europe. cadtm.org

geo.tv (2024-07-01). Australia increases student visa fee by more than 100%. geo.tv International students from China wear graduation gowns as they take pictures around the University of Sydney's campus in Sydney, Australia, July 4, 2020. — Reuters SYDNEY: In a bid to limit record migration, the Australian government has doubled its visa fee for…

Speak Out Now (2024-07-01). Saturday 7/20: The Forced Migration Crisis At The Border. indybay.org South Berkeley Senior Center (2939 Ellis Street, Berkeley, CA 94703)…

Morning Star (2024-07-01). French far right ahead in first round vote. peoplesworld.org France's far right is in the lead after the first round of parliamentary elections that confirmed their dominance in French politics and brought them to the gates of power. Supporters of Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration National Rally (RN) cheered Sunday as she said the president's "Macronist bloc has been all but wiped out." RN was …

Pressenza New York (2024-07-01). Trump/Biden Debate Immigration: US Foreign Policy as a Driver Is Ignored. pressenza.com Give me your tired, your poor, | Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, | The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, | Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, | I lift my lamp beside the golden door! | Emma Lazarus's inscription on the Statue of Liberty | The contestants squared off in the first of the US presidential debates of 2024. Both wore identical white shirts and navy suits with American flag lapel pins. One wore a red tie; the other a blue one. There were other differences, but none quite so substantive. | The immigration issue dominated the debate. The challenger claimed that the country wa…

WSWS (2024-07-01). Bheed: The plight of India's migrant workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. wsws.org The film exposes the nightmarish difficulties suffered by the Indian masses after the Modi government imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020.

aljazeera (2024-07-01). Indonesian band takes stand for Taiwan's migrant workers. aljazeera.com Southern Riot mix poetry and punk to create songs that rail against the exploitation and abuse of migrant workers.

teleSUR, JCM (2024-07-01). EE.UU. anuncia que limita las solicitudes de asilo en la frontera. telesurtv.net Su entrada en vigor se producirá cuando el número de cruces en la frontera supere los 2.500 diarios durante una semana.

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