Palestine

It’s been a bit more than two months since a train derailment in rural Ohio spilled 38 cars’ worth of hazardous materials, including a highly toxic petrochemical called vinyl chloride, in East Palestine. In the weeks following the disaster, it seems to many residents the problems just keep piling up. …

Holy days in the Holy Land should be sacred refuges from escalating tensions and violence, but ironically, they are often just the opposite, producing some of the brutal hell that especially torments Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East. The rare, peaceful confluence of Ramadan, Passover and Easter this past…

40,000 pounds of contaminated soil being transported away from East Palestine, Ohio was spilled in the eastern Ohio county of Columbiana at 1 PM on Monday, according to several local news sources. The spill occurred as a truck driver, 74-year-old Phillip Falck of McDonald, Penn., was driving a vehicle full of…

Officials in southeastern Michigan were angry when a landfill and deep-injection wells near Detroit received contaminated soils and liquids from a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Resistance also was fierce in other states, including Indiana and Oklahoma. Federal officials say states can't stop hazardous waste shipments to facilities certified…

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Spokesperson for President Mahmoud Abbas, said that the continuous Israeli provocations against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem are rejected, and will turn its courtyards into a battlefield, which will lead to a serious deterioration of the situation. “The daily attacks against holy sites and worshipers during…

Demonstrators staged a brief sit-in on Oxford’s High Street, after Israeli riot police clashed with Palestinian worshippers inside the Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Carrying a banner bearing the words ‘no silence until it’s over’ and ‘hands off Al-Aqsa’, the Oxford protesters marched down the High Street before coming…

Noam Chomsky, the world-famous academic and known public intellectual and philosopher, sat down with Al Jazeera to discuss the way things have been going lately in the region. He also shared his views on the sins of society, mementoes of his travels and the things he wishes he’d said. Al…

BEIRUT: Officials at an historic Lebanese golf club have launched a drive to keep it up and running amid the country’s economic meltdown. Karim Salam, president of the Golf Club of Lebanon in south Beirut — known for its elite client base — told Arab News that innovative ways to…

How the Muslim Brotherhood could use Sudan’s protracted crisis to plot a comeback JUBA, South Sudan: The role of the Muslim Brotherhood in shaping Sudan’s continuing conflict is a cause for concern among experts, who warn that the group could influence the country’s military leaders and even determine the nation’s…

Author of the article: The Associated Press John Flesher Published Mar 11, 2023  •  7 minute read Join the conversation EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Heather Bable speaks rapidly, recalling the terror of the night when a train loaded with hazardous chemicals derailed less than a half-mile from her home…