The Petersburg Post

Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 - On Monday, the United Nations Security Council approved President Trump's peace plan for the Gaza Strip, a breakthrough that provides a legal UN mandate for the administration's vision of how to move past the cease-fire and rebuild war-ravaged Gaza after two years of war. The council's vote was also a major diplomatic victory for the Trump administration. For the past two years, as the conflict between Israel and ...

Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 - Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has unveiled what has been billed as the biggest changes to tackle illegal migration "in modern times". The package, modelled on the stricter approach brought in by Denmark's centre-left government, makes refugee status temporary, narrows the appeal process and threatens visa bans on countries that block returns. Here's what we know: People granted asylum in the UK will only be ...

Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 - China warns citizens not to travel to Japan amid escalating row over comments about Taiwan made by PM Sanae Takaichi Shares in Japanese tourism and retail firms have fallen sharply after China warned its citizens not to travel to Japan , while a senior Japanese diplomat was due to travel to Beijing amid an escalating row over comments about Taiwan made by the Japanese prime minister, Sanae Takaichi. Relations ...

Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 - TEL AVIV – The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of , according to a report published Monday by a human rights group that says systematic violence and denial of medical care at prisons and detention centers contributed to many of the deaths it examined. The picture that emerges from the is consistent with , which interviewed more than a dozen people ...