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Palestinian Football Association president Jibril Rajoub has refused to shake hands with Israel’s representative at the Fifa congress on April 30. Susan Shalabi, the Palestinian FA vice-president, told Reuters that Rajoub said: “I cannot shake the hand of someone the Israelis have brought to whitewash their fascism and genocide. We are suffering.” Fifa boss Gianni Infantino had urged the two representatives to shake hands to “give hope to the children” amid “complex matters”. Rajoub had just delivered a speech pleading with Israeli clubs to stop basing teams in the occupied West Bank. “To be put in a position to have a handshake after everything that was said – this negates the whole purpose of the speech that the general [Rajoub] was giving,” said Shalabi. Fifa said ‌last ‌month it would take no action against the Israel Football Association or Israeli clubs, citing the unresolved legal status of the West Bank under public international law.

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Stealing from a supermarket doesn't carry the same "moral meaning" as stealing someone's wallet or looting a small business, argues Ash Sarkar on Novara Live. Shoplifting falls short of being an "act of resistance" because it lacks collectivity, she says. But what about a mass organised shoplifting campaign, targeting companies that don't pay the minimum wage?

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In Maryland, a plan to quietly turn a warehouse into a multi-million dollar ICE detention center is now on hold after the community fought back. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill has allocated $45 billion dollars to fast-tracking these ICE detention centers, at times leveraging the military to so do. Despite the Trump administrations attempts to force this along, the community in Maryland will stand firmly with immigrants.

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Nigerien students, activists, and social organizations are demanding the expulsion of French corporations from the Sahel region, as well the “complete abolition” of the CFA franc. Instead, they are calling on the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) and AES leaders to accelerate a common currency. The activists gathered in Niamey on Thursday to pay tribute to the victims of the April 25 attacks in Mali.

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Israel fired what appears to be white phosphorus on southern Lebanon despite a US-brokered ceasefire. In the footage, taken on April 28, plumes of white smoke drift through a residential area at the foot of a hill - before a mid-air explosion occurs and a new curtain of white smoke appears. “The second round is an air-burst 155mm M825-series projectile that contains white phosphorus,” Mark Hiznay, associate director in the Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division at Human Rights Watch, confirmed to Novara Media. White phosphorus is a toxic substance that ignites when it comes into contact with oxygen, and is capable of inflicting horrific burn injuries and setting buildings on fire. It has some legal uses but firing it in a populated area or at civilian infrastructure is a violation of international humanitarian law. Israel's military issued an urgent warning on Tuesday to residents in more than a dozen villages and towns in southern Lebanon, urging them to evacuate northward immediately and signalling an imminent attack. The warning said the action was necessary due to Hezbollah’s reported violation of the ceasefire agreement with Israel. It is not known if any of the homes pictured in the video clip were inhabited at the time the munitions were dropped, or if they had been evacuated. Last month Human Rights Watch said Israel unlawfully fired artillery containing white phosphorus over homes in the the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor on 3 March. “The Israeli military’s unlawful use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians,” Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch, said. “The incendiary effects of white phosphorous can cause death or cruel injuries that result in lifelong suffering.”

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"We don't want war, nor will we beg for anything on our knees." President Miguel Díaz-Canel has launched a "My Signature for the Homeland" petition drive as a show of unity among the Cuban people in the wake of Trump's attacks. BT spoke to those lining up to sign and asked them what message they would send to Trump. 🎥@ldejesusreyes

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"May Day is not a moment. It's a movement." North Carolina teachers are preparing for a massive statewide walkout for their students on May 1 as part of the national shutdown. The action will launch their "Kids Over Corporations" campaign which demands fully funding the state's public schools, ending corporate tax breaks, eliminating private school vouchers, and lifting the ban on collective bargaining for public sector workers.

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Footage shows the moment Israeli naval forces intercept one of the vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla, near Crete around 500 nautical miles from the Gaza strip. Around 175 activists have been reportedly detained.

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“You cannot blame Jews anywhere in the world for what the Israeli government does.” On ITV’s Peston, Mehdi Hasan breaks down the difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism while reiterating his unwavering opposition to the Israeli government.

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Elon Musk complains about taxes while Tesla reported NOT PAYING ANY FEDERAL INCOME TAX??

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Zohran Mamdani has called on King Charles to return a giant diamond associated with British colonial plunder to India. The Koh-i-Noor diamond has been in British hands since the 1849 annexation of Punjab, when 10-year-old Maharaja Duleep Singh was forced to surrender it – along with his lands – to Queen Victoria. New York City mayor Mamdani was speaking ahead of his appearance at a ceremony at the 9/11 memorial and museum in Manhattan, honouring victims of the 2001 attacks. Asked what he might talk to King Charles about if the pair met, Mamdani said: “If I was to ‌speak to the King separately from that [the wreath-laying ceremony], I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond.” India has repeatedly sought the return of the 105.6-carat gemstone, calling it a "valued piece of art with strong roots in our nation's history". The diamond is currently set in the crown of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

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Barnsley city council has been a Labour stronghold throughout its 50-year history – but pollsters reckon it could flip to Reform. Out on the street, few people in this former mining town were willing to tell Novara Media’s Harriet Williamson that they intend to vote Reform – but it was clear that satisfaction with the Labour government is low. “People here don’t have a single good thing to say about Keir Starmer,” Harriet concluded. Watch the full report on our YouTube channel.

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Two Jewish men were stabbed in north London yesterday in what the Metropolitan police are treating as an antisemitic terrorist incident. Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of government terrorism legislation, has blamed pro-Palestine protesters for inciting antisemitic violence. On Novara Live, Barry Malone says it's "disturbing" how people involved in the pro-Israel lobby have weaponised yesterday’s antisemitic attack “in an attempt to tamp down on the right to protest”.

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Pete Hegseth can't help but deflect when questioned by Ro Khanna about what the actual cost of the Iran War is to Americans.

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"Unable to face the heroic resistance fighters, Israel resorts to striking children." An Israeli strike killed 4-year-old Mila Zayyat and her pregnant mother Ruqaya Zidan in the southern Lebanese village of Tayr Debba. Residents held a funeral for the two on Wednesday.

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President Trump called CBS correspondent Norah O’Donnell a “disgrace” for reading out the words of the man accused of trying to assassinate him over the weekend. In an email to family members, the 31-year-old suspected shooter Cole Allen wrote: “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” Assuming that Allen was talking about him, Trump repeated the false claim that he had been “totally exonerated” of sexual crimes. “I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody. I’m not a paedophile,” he raged, adding: “You should be ashamed of yourself for reading that.”

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If you call yourself Welsh, you’re more likely to be leftwing – but if you identify as British in Wales, you’re more likely to be on the right. This finding from the Wales Governance Centre could have huge ramifications for the Senedd election on 7 May. James Hitchings-Hales went to Caerphilly to put it to the test.

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U.S. representative Seth Moulton rips Sec. of War Pete Hegseth over his handling of the Iran war: "So Iran blockaded us, and then we blockaded their blockade? That's like saying tag, you're it."

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Your boss could be stealing tens of thousands of dollars straight out of your paycheck. Every year, an estimated 10-30% of employers rig the system by misclassifying their workers as independent contractors to evade paying minimum wage, overtime, and benefits. Minnie and Marco explain how it works. Video by @seizethemeansstreet

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Farmers are getting slammed by the war on Iran. The price of diesel is through the roof, the cost of fertilizer skyrocketed, and farm bankruptcies are up 46%. 70% of farmers now say they can't afford to fertilize their fields this season. Trump has caused a farm crisis. Producer: wadrewhawkins Editor: niklaak Supervising Producer: Court Fuller Videographer: Jay Marcano

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Economist Michael Hudson warned that the US economy is built on a Ponzi scheme, which depends on continuing to pour money into a bloated, bubbly financial system based on unsustainable speculation, not industrial production. || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/Support Subscribe to our newsletter: https://geopoliticaleconomy.report/ Join our community on Patreon: https://patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy

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Nigel Farage visited a social housing estate in Wales by helicopter, but pretended he had driven. A Merthyr Tydfil resident told Novara Media that when the Reform leader visited the town as part of his general election campaign, he “landed in the next valley over so that nobody knew he’d come by helicopter”. “This isn’t what people in Merthyr travel by,” she added. Watch our full report from Merthyr Tydfil on our YouTube channel now.

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Malian President General Assimi Goïta declared the security situation in the country “under control” following a wave of coordinated attacks by Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) over the weekend. Goïta stated that the attacks are "part of a broader destabilization plan designed and carried out by terrorist armed groups, with internal and external sponsors providing them with intelligence and logistical support."

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Morgan McSweeney told MPs yesterday that seeing photos of Mandelson and Epstein together was like “a knife through my soul” – even though the pictures were already in circulation. We shouldn’t be surprised, says James Butler on Novara Live. The idea that behind-the-scenes figures like McSweeney and Dominic Cummings are political geniuses is massively inflated – and often depends on luck.

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