Palestine

OTTAWA, Canada — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, that Canada will officially recognise the State of Palestine at the upcoming 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, marking a historic shift in the country’s Middle East policy. The declaration followed a phone call…

Updated 31 July 2025 at 09:04 IST Canada became the third G7 country, after France and the United Kingdom, to announce the decision to recognize the statehood of Palestine. Follow :   Canada Sets Conditions to Recognise Palestinian State, Israel Condemns Move as ‘Reward for Hamas’ | Image: AP Canada…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking to media today Alamy Gaza Both the UK and France have already announced similar moves in the last week. CANADA HAS JOINED the growing list of countries that have pledged in recent days to formally recognise a Palestinian state. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney…

Article content Carney’s announcement comes after France and the United Kingdom made similar announcements over the past week. If they go through with their commitments, France, the U.K. and Canada will be the first G7 countries to recognize Palestinian statehood at the UN, a largely symbolic move. Article content Carney…

Keir Starmer has been condemned by a British Hamas hostage who was held captive for more than a year, after the Prime Minister announced plans to formally recognise Palestine. The Prime Minister announced yesterday that the British Government would follow France's lead in recognising a Palestinian State by September, unless…

Sir Keir Starmer's plan to recognise Palestine as a state has been attacked as "appeasement towards jihadist terrorists" by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister said the UK will recognise a Palestinian state by September unless Israel takes "substantive steps" to end the situation in Gaza, Israel agrees…

The British government has said it will officially recognise Palestine as a state in September - unless Israel meets certain conditions. Following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza, Sir Keir Starmer made the announcement on Tuesday after a meeting with US President Donald Trump the previous day. Politics latest: Israel…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that the U.K. will recognize the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly in late September unless Israel takes steps to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza and commits to a renewed peace process with the Palestinians.Why it matters: Starmer's statement follows shortly…

France and Saudi Arabia will lead the charge starting Monday to revive the moribund push for a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians at a UN conference in New York. Days before the July 28-30 conference, to be co-chaired by Riyadh and Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that…

PARIS, July 26 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that France would become the first Western member of the United Nations Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state in September has caused diplomatic ructions from the Middle East through Europe to Washington. But it did not come out of the…