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A long ‘journey’ for Nobel chemistry winner born to Palestinian refugees  The Washington Post Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Architects of Metal-Organic Frameworks  The New York Times UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry  Berkeley News This year’s Nobel laureates have now been announced  The Economist Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 – Popular information – NobelPrize.org  NobelPrize.org Source link

Amid a consumer boycott of their Xbox business, Microsoft are apparently ending the Israeli military’s access to certain Azure cloud and generative AI technologies used to surveil Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. As reported by the Guardian, one of the publications who originally exposed the surveillance project, the company told Israeli officials last week that spy agency Unit …

Microsoft has cut off the Israel Ministry of Defense’s access to some of its tech and services after an internal investigation found the organization appeared to be using its tech to store surveillance data on phone calls made by Palestinians.   The tech giant announced on Thursday that it made the decision to “cease and disable” certain subscriptions from the Israeli military. This affects subscriptions to Azure cloud storage and certain AI services.   “We do not provide …

An immigration judge in the US has ordered the deportation of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil to either Algeria or Syria, over claims he omitted information from a green card application. Judge Jamee Comans, based in Louisiana, said Mr Khalil “wilfully misrepresented material fact(s) for the sole purpose of circumventing the immigration process”. In a statement to the American Civil Liberties …

Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has said he will pull state funding for the country’s national film honors, the Ophir Awards, after the Palestinian anti-war drama The Sea took top prize at the 2025 ceremony Tuesday night. Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s drama follows a 12-year-old Palestinian boy living under occupation in the West Bank who risks his life, dodging military checkpoints and the …

Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker and activist Basel Adra said soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) searched his house in the occupied West Bank after a group of Israeli settlers attacked him, his family members and a foreign activist on Saturday. On Saturday afternoon, a group of settlers from the illegal Havat Ma’on outpost near Adra’s village of At-Tuwani began trespassing …

Palestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra has said that Israeli soldiers have conducted a raid at his West Bank home, searching for him and going through his wife’s phone. Israeli settlers attacked his village on Saturday, injuring two of his brothers and one cousin, Adra told the Associated Press. He accompanied them to the hospital. While there, he said that he …

The US has imposed sanctions against three Palestinian human rights groups that asked the international criminal court (ICC) to investigate Israel over allegations of genocide in Gaza, according to a notice posted to the US treasury department’s website. The three groups – the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Ramallah-based Al-Haq …

Palestinian Leaders Urge U.S. to End Visa Ban Ahead of Statehood Summit  The New York Times US tells diplomats to refuse most visas for Palestinian passport holders  CNN Trump’s Ban on Mahmoud Abbas Is Bad News for Palestine. But It’s Dangerous for the UN  Haaretz Trump Just Made a Baffling Move on Palestine. It Tells Us Something About His Bigger Intentions.  Slate The US …

US officials have further restricted visitor visas for Palestinians, by denying them to almost all applicants who use a Palestinian passport, media reports say. The development comes days after 80 Palestinian officials were denied visas ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Earlier in August, visitor visas were paused for people hoping to travel from the Palestinian …