Israel has intensified its crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip by closing the only crossing for commercial goods. Former Gaza health minister Dr. Basem Naim discusses the impact on a devastated health system and says that Palestinians will continue their weekly protests for freedom. AARON MATE: It’s The Real News. I’m Aaron Mate. As mass Palestinian […]

The Libertarian Party has requested President Trump grant a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence with no parole possibility for his role in launching and operating the Silk Road website, which facilitated illegal drug trading. The party passed a resolution urging the pardon at its annual convention on July 3. On June 28, […]

President Donald Trump has left for a Nato summit in Brussels with a stark warning from European Council President Donald Tusk. Ahead of his visit, Mr Trump hit out at the EU on trade and at his Nato allies for failing to spend enough on defence. Accusing the president of criticising Europe “almost daily”, Mr […]

At least 100 people are thought to have died after record rainfall caused flooding and landslides in western Japan, a government spokesman says. Dozens more are reported to be missing and electricity supplies have been hit. Since Thursday, parts of western Japan have received three times the usual rainfall for the whole of July. Two […]

The operation to free 12 boys and their coach trapped in a cave in northern Thailand is running “smoothly”, the head of the operation says. Four boys have been brought above ground so far in good health, rescuers say. The mission has now been paused for at least 10 hours as air tanks need to […]

North Korea — North Korea accused the Trump administration on Saturday of pushing a “unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization” and called it “deeply regrettable,” hours after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his two days of talks in the North Korean capital were “productive.” Despite North Korea’s criticism, its Foreign Ministry said the North’s […]

Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs worth hundreds of billions of dollars on Chinese imports to the US as a trade war between the world’s two largest economies began on Friday. US tariffs on $34bn (£25.7bn) of Chinese goods have come into effect. China retaliated by imposing a similar 25% tariff on 545 US […]

President Trump has an early opponent emerging for the 2020 presidential election: Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti. Avenatti, who’s risen to national fame as the porn star’s attorney amid the tempest of legal claims she’s made against the president, tweeted Wednesday that he will run if there is no other candidate “that has a real […]

The left-wing anti-establishment candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will make tackling corruption his top priority after winning Mexico’s presidential election on Sunday. Official projections give him more than 53% of the vote but it is unclear whether his party will secure an outright majority in parliament. US President Donald Trump has said he looks forward […]

EU leaders have differed sharply over how a new deal on curbing irregular migration will work. The agreement foresees the creation of secure centres to receive migrants. France’s president said his country would not set any up as it was not the EU country where migrants landed first. Italy’s prime minister – who had held […]