(2026-04-29). Israel sets 2-week deadline for Lebanon talks, warns of renewed military escalation. tribune.com.pk 
Israel has set a two-week deadline for reaching an agreement with Lebanon during their US-mediated negotiations, warning of renewed military escalation if talks fail, according to Israeli media on Wednesday. | The public broadcaster KAN said Tel Aviv has established a "limited timeframe" for the talks, not exceeding two weeks, in a bid to secure what it described as a "real agreement" between the two sides. The outlet said Israel has linked the current ceasefire arrangement — extended until mid-May — to reaching a substantive deal with Lebanon within that period. | "We cannot wait indefinitely… we…
(2026-04-29). Israeli strikes kill eight in south Lebanon, including rescuers. newarab.com 
The Lebanese health ministry said Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed eight people, including civil defence rescuers, and wounded two soldiers in the country's south, despite an ongoing The Israeli military, meanwhile, announced it had found and Israel has been fighting Hezbollah since early March and deepened its invasion of south Lebanon, with…
(2026-04-29). Israeli strike kills five family members in Lebanon. aljazeera.com
(2026-04-29). UK government challenges lifting of ban on pro-Palestinian group. tribune.com.pk 
Lawyers for the British state argued at London's High Court on Tuesday that a ruling by UK judges lifting a government ban on pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action should be scrapped. | Appealing the court ruling, the lawyers said the judges' earlier description of the impact of the ban on human rights had been "overstated and wrong". | The government banned Palestine Action in July last year, days after activists protesting against Israel's genocide in Gaza broke into an air force base in southern England and caused millions of pounds worth of damage to two aircraft. | The UK government is now appealing agai…
(2026-04-29). Pakistan urges diplomacy for peaceful resolution of Israel-Palestine issue, US-Iran conflict at UNSC. tribune.com.pk 
Pakistan urged diplomacy for the peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestine issue and the US-Iran conflict during a United Nations Security Council debate on Wednesday. | Speaking at a UNSC open debate on the Middle East, Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said that "the unresolved question of Palestine and the continued Israeli occupation of Arab lands" lies at the heart of regional turmoil. | Rejecting alternative narratives, he stressed that "not the expansionist ambitions; not the suppression of rights; not the use of force," but rather "the vacation of occupatio…
(2026-04-29). Fact check: Viral video of missile attacks in Iran is old. tribune.com.pk 
Multiple pro-Iranian accounts were sharing a video since Tuesday on the social media platform X, claiming that it shows missile attacks in Iran without specifying who carried them out during the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. However, the clip is old and shows Israel's attack on Tehran's oil depot on March 7. | Israel and the United States launched joint military strikes on Iran on February 28, killing former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials. Tehran responded by launching strikes on US bases and other facilities in seven Gulf states and Israel. | A US-Iran ceasefire was annou…
(2026-04-29). Pope Leo vs US President Donald Trump. ummid.com Pope Leo's sharp criticism of war, sectarian manipulation and the political misuse of religion has cast fresh attention on the narratives shaping the US-Israel confrontation with Iran.
(2026-04-29). Ervand Abrahamian: Iran Under Fire. newleftreview.org One of modern Iran's leading historians provides a critical anatomy of the power structures of the Islamic Republic, on the eve of war—and a scathing denunciation of the long-incubated American-Israeli assault on the country, calculated to bring about Syria-style disintegration and civil war.
(2026-04-29). Palestinian football body appeals FIFA ruling on Israel at top sports court. aljazeera.com Meanwhile, visa issues are affecting Palestinian and other delegations to the upcoming FIFA Congress.
(2026-04-29). Double Standards in Scientific Ethics: European Federation of Psychologists' Associations Rejects Call to Condemn Israeli War Crimes. uwidata.com The Turkish Psychologists Association (TPD) has exposed the blatant double standards of the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA). While the EFPA cites "political neutrality" regarding Israel's military aggression in the Middle East, its previous expulsion of Russia over the Ukraine conflict reveals a deeply rooted selective morality within Western-centric scientific institutions. As the humanitarian …
(2026-04-29). How Hezbollah's fibre optic drones test Israel's sophisticated radar system. aljazeera.com Immune to jamming and invisible to radar, the low-cost drones are piercing through Israel's multibillion-dollar systems.
(2026-04-29). Chinese intelligence agencies analyze the alliance between Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett. moderndiplomacy.eu Chinese intelligence agencies are analyzing the implications of the announcement made on Sunday, April 26, 2026, by Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that they would run together in the elections this year, aiming to oust current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Lapid-Bennett alliance, intended to end the Netanyahu era, …
(2026-04-29). Ultra-Orthodox protesters storm military police chief's home in southern Israel. tribune.com.pk 
Ultra-Orthodox protesters stormed the residence of Israel's military police chief late Tuesday, amid growing tensions over the arrest of draft evaders. | According to Israeli Army Radio, a group of Haredi protesters broke into the yard of Yuval Yamin's home in the southern city of Ashkelon, protesting recent arrests of ultra-Orthodox men accused of evading mandatory military service. | Israeli police said around 200 demonstrators gathered outside the residence. A military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some protesters climbed over the fence and entered the property. The source added that Yami…
(2026-04-28). L'ultima trincea del disarmo. strategic-culture.su A New York apre la Conferenza di Revisione del Trattato di Non-Proliferazione Nucleare nel momento più drammatico dal 1986. Iran sull'orlo del ritiro, Israele fuori, New START scaduto, tutti gli arsenali in espansione. Cronaca di un'architettura che si sgretola. | Segue nostro C'è una geografia del rischio che torna a coincidere con quella del Novecento. Il Palazzo di Vetro, sulla First Avenue di Manhattan, ospita da oggi 27 aprile, e fi…