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Four days after India and Pakistan reached a ceasefire after a rapid escalation of military conflict between them, the important differences between their battlefield claims remain unresolved. Among them is Pakistan’s claim that five Indian fighter jets were fired down on May 7, the first day of the battle in response to India’s attack on its territory. As the story battles take over from the actual battles, Al Jazeera prevents us from knowing about the claims and why it matters if it is true. what happened? Tensions between India and Pakistan erupted into a military conflict on May 7 after…
Malawi, Lilongwe – He was young, so Enok Dayton made a living from the bananas. The 30-year-old was born and raised in Morele, in the Malawia district of southern Tiyoro, which was at the heart of local banana production until the plant virus destroyed the crops more than a decade ago. At his stall at Mukesi Market in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, Dayton serves customers of the bundle of green bananas he has. “I started this business when I was younger. We had a farm that grew bananas. We take the truck and bring it here and sell it to individuals,”…
Islamabad, Pakistan – A ceasefire on May 10, a few days after the rapid escalation of military tensions, four days after the ceasefire of full-scale war, a battle of narrative erupted, with countries claiming “winning” more than others. The conflict broke out after killing 26 civilians in Pahargam in India-controlled Kashmir on April 22. Initially, the little-known armed group, the Resistance Front (TRF), accused Pakistan of supporting it. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised retaliation despite Pakistan’s denying its role in the attack. Tensions exploded militarily after a series of neglect diplomatic measures among neighbors. In the early hours…
What happened in Palestine in 1948? Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world mark the Nakbah, or catastrophe, mentioning the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. As they secured the support of the British government for the creation of the Palestinian Jewish state on May 14, 1948, as soon as the British order expired, Zionist forces declared the establishment of an Israeli state, triggering the first Arab-Israel war. Zionist troops expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands, capturing 78% of historic Palestine. The remaining 22% were divided into the currently occupied West Bank and the…
May 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Network Security Fortinet patched a critical security flaw that it said was exploited as zero-day in an attack targeting Fortivoice’s enterprise phone system. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-32756 has a CVSS score of 9.6 out of 10.0. “Stack-based overflow vulnerability [CWE-121] “Fortivoice, Fortimail, Fortindr, Fortirecorder, and Forticamera could allow remote, uncertified attackers to execute arbitrary code or commands via created HTTP requests,” the company said in its advisory. The company said that while defects being exploited in the wild in the Fortivoice system were observed, it did not disclose the scale of the attack and the threat…
May 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Endpoint Security Ivanti has released a security update to address two security flaws in Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) software that was taken to an attack to gain remote code execution. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-4427 (CVSS score: 5.3) – Authentication bypass attackers can access protected resources without proper credentials on IVANTI Endpoint Manager mobile CVE-2025-4428 (CVSS score: 7.2) Defects affect the next version of the product – 11.12.0.4 and previous (fixed to 11.12.0.5) 12.3.0.1 and Prior (fixed to 12.3.0.2) 12.4.0.1 and Front (fixed to 12.4.0.2) 12.5.0.0 and Front (fixed to 12.5.0.1) Ivanti praised…
President Donald Trump has cut another $450 million in grants from Harvard University amid a continuing feud over anti-Semitism, presidential rule and academic freedom limitations. On Tuesday, the joint task force framed under Trump accused Harvard University, the country’s oldest university, of committing “many years of policy and discrimination practices based on race.” “A formerly symbolized scholars’ fame, Harvard’s campus has become a breeding ground for virtue signals and discrimination. It is not leadership. It is not coronavirus. It is not academic freedom. It is not institutional disenfranchisement,” the task force said in a statement. “By prioritizing settlements against accountability,…
Jose “Pepe” Musica, a former leftist rebel who became Uruguay’s president from 2010 to 2015, passed away at the age of 89. Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi announced his death in a social media post on Tuesday. Musica was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2024. “It is a deep sadness that we announce the death of our comrade Pepe Musica,” Orsi wrote. “I am grateful for all that you have given us and for the deep love for your people.” Musica became an icon even across Uruguay’s boundaries, and he pursued environmental reform, led the country to legalize same-sex marriage and…
Dallas Mavericks’ Clay Thompson #31 will handle the ball during the match against the Memphis Grizzlies at the 2025 Sophie Play-In Tournament, which took place at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee on April 18, 2025.Joe Murphy | National Basketball Association | Getty ImagesChime Financial paid the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks about $33 million over three years to wear the logo as a patch on the player’s jersey. The Mavericks finalized the Jersey deal in 2020 along with “specific other sponsorships and publicity rights,” but no terms were announced. CNBC then cited NBA officials and reported that the league’s patch sponsorship…
President Donald Trump announced that US sanctions on Syria will be lifted, with a major boost to the Tehran government, which came to power after the overthrow of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad in December. “On the first Tuesday of a three-day visit to the Middle East, including Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, in Saudi Arabia, Trump said in Saudi Arabia “There is a new government that will succeed in stabilizing the country and maintaining peace.” “I order the suspension of sanctions against Syria in order to give them the opportunity to greatness.” Trump is also expected to meet Syrian…