"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated." Anne Frank

Israel's army personnel official photographs.

The Grayzone presents a behind-the-scenes portrait of Betar USA, the militant Zionist street group that claims credit for guiding the Trump administration's jailing and attempted deportation of pro-Palestine student activists.

To this day in 2025, thousands of children are forced into child marriage in the United States and Republicans seem to want to keep it that way. With several thousand documented child marriages every single year, some involving as children as young as 10.

The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14% on last year’s summit in Baku – and larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to Cop30 in Belém.

CNN speaks with Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, the widow of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, about President Donald Trump welcoming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud for his first visit to the US since her husband's killing. The CIA found the prince had likely ordered the assassination.

A pardoned January 6 rioter has been charged with sex crimes against two children. Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old, joining a growing list of U.S. Capitol rioters pardoned by Trump who now face new legal trouble.

US President Donald Trump said Monday he is open to speaking with Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and would not rule out deploying US troops, while also saying he'd be "OK" with launching anti-drug strikes inside Mexico – remarks that heighten tensions amid a major US military buildup in the region.

The president of Venezuela took part in an event with his supporters on Saturday, where he recalled British musician John Lennon and even went on to sing part of one of his iconic songs, “Imagine.” Maduro’s public appearance and his comments about seeking peace come as tensions with the U.S. rise.

Cuts to international aid by the US and European countries could cause more than 22 million preventable deaths by 2030, including 5.4 million children under five, a new research has warned on Monday, highlighting the unprecedented global impact of simultaneous reductions in development assistance.

Women in the EU only earn €0.88 on average for every euro a man makes, meaning that they will symbolically start “working for free” from 17 November until the end of the year. Equal pay is still not a reality for working women as men continue to earn on average 12% more per hour.

😂 The US Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, once a longtime Trump loyalist, has accused President Donald Trump of putting her life in danger, saying his online criticism has triggered a wave of threats against her. She has been contacted by private security firms warning about her safety.

A group of 17 transgender members of the Air Force are suing the U.S. government. The Air Force confirmed that it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits.

The UK government is stripping back protections and ending automatic benefits for people who have been given asylum seeker status, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Sunday, announcing a historic overhaul of the country's refugee policy that draws inspiration from Denmark's hardline stance.

Early this week, the US Navy's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, reached its provisional position in the Caribbean. On Thursday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave the ongoing southern Caribbean mission an official name: Operation Southern Spear.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a new US military operation that is aimed at targeting so-called "narco-terrorists" in the Western Hemisphere. "Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and @SOUTHCOM, this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere."

By the time Jeffery Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl, he had established an enormous network of wealthy and influential friends. Emails show the crime did little to diminish the desire of that network to stay connected to the billionaire financier.

Vermont-based artist Tai Ericson has turned a beloved fantasy series into a poignant protest: portraits of transgender women who were murdered, crafted from the pages of Harry Potter books.

Woman Asks “Pro-Life” Churches to Feed Her Starving Baby. Their Responses Were Predictable.

Israel's President Isaac Herzog has received a letter from Donald Trump formally urging him to "fully pardon" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu has been standing trial for the past five years on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in connection with three separate cases.

For 16 years, Paul Ostapa worked as an technician, but the company he worked for, Trane U.S., made his life a living hell in 2022 when they did something unconscionable: They hired a woman in his department. His Christian faith taught him he couldn’t be left alone with a woman who wasn’t his wife.

IDF rapists get a standing ovation in court.

US Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., says he has “grave concerns” over a plan by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to award monetary bonuses to private bounty hunters. These bounty hunters will be tasked with conducting surveillance and ultimately pinpointing the home address of “aliens”.

In the wake of the November 13, 2015, Paris terror attacks, the French government declared a nationwide state of emergency that gave the authorities sweeping powers to fight terrorism – at the expense of some civil liberties. Ten years later even greater surveillance measures have been introduced.

Ekrem Imamoglu is facing almost 150 charges that could collectively land him with a 2,353-year jail sentence. The mayor of Turkey's largest city is an outspoken critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods. The social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day.

Settlers' attack on journalists in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.

US President Donald Trump said none of his country's officials would attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg in November, in protest against "human rights abuses" in South Africa. Since Trump returned to the White House he has frequently made false claims of a "white genocide" against Afrikaners.

Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.

Stupidity of guns. Authorities are considering whether to charge an Indiana homeowner who they say shot and killed a woman working as a house cleaner after she mistakenly went to the wrong address.

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Thousands of civilians are feared dead after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state. The sand in and around the city of approximately 400,000 is so caked with blood that you can see evidence of the RSF’s war crimes via satellite imagery.

The US Army removed website guidance directing soldiers to food banks and food-sharing facilities during the government shutdown after Euronews first reported the case, which caused social media controversy.

Martine Croxall broke the BBC's rules when she pulled a face because her script said 'pregnant people', the broadcaster has said. The newsreader won a legion of new fans and the backing of JK Rowling. Her facial expression suggested a 'controversial view about trans people'.

“It is outrageous that YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of (Israeli) human rights violations and war crimes from public view.”

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor warned Friday that Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza, operating under a “quiet and systematic” campaign of extermination despite the ongoing ceasefire.

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Trump has spent two weekends at Mar-a-Lago since the shutdown began on October 1, and played a round of golf at his club in Virginia. Before leaving for Florida last week, Trump posted 24 photos of a guest bathroom he renovated in the White House residence.

UK police were told more than 200 Maccabi Tel Aviv fans who caused havoc in Amsterdam last year "were linked to the Israel Defense Forces" by their Dutch counterparts, bringing claims by the UK Government into question that the recent ban on Maccabi fans was antisemitic.

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“If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,” he said. “And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.”

Since the far-right Argentinian president, Javier Milei, took office in December 2023 and implemented his “chainsaw” austerity plan, more than 200,000 formal jobs have been lost, 18,000 businesses have closed, household debt has risen and buying power has collapsed.

Defense Department officials do not know precisely who they have killed in multiple military strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean that have claimed the lives of at least 57 people.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering hiring private bounty hunters to locate immigrants across the country. Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reported that colonist violence in the West Bank has recently escalated to its highest level in more than a decade. Last month was the most violent since the start of regular documentation of such incidents 12 to 13 years ago.

Trump's administration is dangerous and inept in every conceivable way.

Israeli air raids have been reported in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. The death toll in the besieged enclave has risen to 236 since the ceasefire was agreed. Two Palestinians, including a teenager, have been killed in attacks by Israeli forces and settlers in occupied West Bank.