Tag: occupation

Portland State University shares damage estimate following library occupation

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Following the occupation of Portland State University’s library in late April and early May, the school released an estimate for the amount of damages caused. According to PSU, the costs to restore Millar Library will be roughly $750,000, give or take $125,000. That total doesn’t include replacing and repairing damaged technology […]

Protesters taken into custody as police end university pro-Palestine occupation

Protesters have been taken into custody late on Tuesday after Columbia University called in the New York Police Department (NYPD) to end the pro-Palestinian occupation on campus. Police said the university’s Hamilton Hall was cleared of pro-Palestinian protesters who took over building on Tuesday. The scene unfolded shortly after 9pm as police, wearing helmets and […]

Italy commemorates the end of Nazi Germany’s occupation in 1945

Italy commemorated the end of its occupation by Nazi Germany in 1945 with a memorial service in Rome on Thursday. President Sergio Mattarella laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the presidents of both chambers of parliament looked on. Meloni is the leader of the largest […]

this does not mean occupation is recognised

Hakan Fidan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye, has advocated holding negotiations on a ceasefire in Ukraine soon, noting that this does not imply recognition of the occupation of Ukrainian territory. Source: European Pravda with reference to Reuters Details: On 1 March, Fidan met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the […]

The battle that saved Kyiv from Russian occupation

Editor’s Note: This article was published by the blog “The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak” on Feb. 22, 2024, and has been re-published by the Kyiv Independent with permission. To subscribe to “The Counteroffensive,” click here. In the first hours of his full-scale invasion, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his most elite troops to get behind […]

Ukraine brings them back from Russian occupation

Two teenage young ladies who had lived under Russian occupation for almost two years have been brought back to Ukraine-controlled territory. Source: Ukraine’s Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Details: The children lived with their grandparents in a small village in Luhansk Oblast when the large-scale invasion began. Their mother worked in the city […]

South Africa asks World Court to find Israeli occupation illegal

By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – South Africa on Tuesday urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue a non-binding legal opinion that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, arguing it would help efforts to reach a settlement. Representatives of South Africa opened the second day of hearings at […]

Palestinian diplomat asks top UN court to declare Israeli occupation illegal

Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad al-Maliki asked the United Nations’s top court to declare Israeli occupation of the West Bank illegal at a historic hearing opened in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. The Palestinian diplomat focused on the war in Gaza for much of the case proceedings Monday and told the International Court of […]