With mass demonstrations planned for US Labor day on Monday, workers’ activists are preparing to take to the streets. Among them is Maliha Noamani, who will be demonstrating for multiple causes in what is expected to be one of the biggest nationwide turnouts since President Donald Trump took office in January. “This is our time. Labor Day is when labour really shows up,” she tells The New Arab. “With everything happening with this administration – cuts to Medicaid, the Fed [Federal Reserve], the CDC [Centers for Disease Control], redistricting to try to rig the elections – there are a lot of r...

Israel is considering annexation in the occupied West Bank as a possible response to France and other countries recognising a Palestinian state, according to three Israeli officials and the idea will be discussed further on Sunday, another official said. Extension of Israeli sovereignty to the West Bank - de facto annexation of land captured in the 1967 Middle East war - was on the agenda for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet meeting late on Sunday that is expected to focus on Israel's war on Gaza, a member of the small circle of ministers said. It is unclear where precisely...

El físico estadounidense de origen alemán Rainer Weiss, quien obtuvo en 2017 el Premio Nobel de Física y fue investido en 2018 como doctor honoris causa por la Universidad de Almería, ha fallecido este pasado 25 de agosto en Cambridge, Massachusetts, solo unos días antes de haber cumplido los 93 años. Considerado una figura central de la física contemporánea, su legado está marcado por una trayectoria de innovación y visión científica. Fue distinguido con el Premio Nobel por su papel fundamental en la detección de las ondas gravitacionales, uno de los hitos más trascendentes de la ciencia mode...

Greek and German police have dismantled an international drug gang suspected of distributing large quantities of cocaine in Germany, Greece and other EU countries. During coordinated raids, Greek police detained two suspected gang members, while German authorities arrested three others, police in Athens said in a statement on Sunday. According to authorities, the German detainees include a 66-year-old German national and two men aged 27 and 28, whose nationalities were not disclosed. In Greece, two Greek males, aged 52 and 62, were arrested. The exact locations of the raids were not revealed. ...

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has called on China to work together with Iran to reshape regional and global power dynamics. "The two countries on both sides of Asia have the power to bring about change in the region and the world," Khamenei said, according to the Iranian portal Iran Nuances, in a post on X on Sunday. The implementation of the planned strategic partnership agreement at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit is expected to help pave the way for this transformation. According to the Iranian constitution, Khamenei has the final say on all strategic mat...