
IRAN’S supreme leader and representatives of Palestinian militias prayed today over the coffins of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard who were killed in a shocking assassination blamed on Israel.
The killing has raised the risk of the fighting in Gaza between the Israelis and Hamas escalating into an all-out regional war.
It comes as Israel claimed today that it killed a senior Hamas military leader in an attack in July.

ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors

While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE