People of Rafah ordered to move to al-Mawasi – now occupation is killing them there too, not for the first time, and again targeting mainly children | Last week, Israel ordered hundreds of thousands of people living in Rafah, southern Gaza, to move to the tiny supposed ‘safe zone’ of al-Mawasi, a wasteland filled with the tents of refugees. Following its pattern throughout the more than five hundred days of its genocide, it then started bombing them there – including the use of US-made ‘mother of all bombs’ heavy munitions. And tonight it is bombing them again – and again it has killed and wounded mainly children.

✅ Israel is About to Empty Gaza (Chris Hedges)

US President Donald Trump said after a meeting between his special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi that the Iran talks were going "OK," Reuters reported. | On Saturday, indirect talks were held in the Omani capital of Muscat between Araghchi and Witkoff. According to Witkoff, the talks between Iran and the United States in Oman were positive and constructive. Araghchi also called the atmosphere of these talks constructive and calm, thanked the Omani foreign minister for his efforts in exchanging views between the Iranian and US delegations, and announced that the second round of talks between Iran and the US would be held on Saturday, April 19.

■ Tehran, Washington to hold second round of talks in Oman on April 19 (TASS)
■ Iran and US unveil results of nuclear talks (RT)
■ Russia-US negotiations progress towards lifting American sanctions —Jeffrey Sachs (TASS)
✅ Iran-US tensions: There's no room for further miscalculations (Marco Carnelos)

Proper conditions will be created for the migrant laborers from the South Asian country, the Belarusian president has said | Belarus will soon accept up to 150,000 migrant workers from Pakistan, the Eastern European country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, has said. Lukashenko made the announcement after a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Minsk on Friday. ● The Belarusian leader said that Sharif and him had agreed that “in the near future [Pakistani] specialists in various fields will be sent [to Belarus]; the fields of our choosing. The leadership of Pakistan will help us select such people.”

Freedom from ‘secretive, unscrupulous’ party and its treacherous leadership is ‘liberating’, says exonerated ex-member | A Jewish former Labour party member has won his appeal against the party’s decision to expel him for supposed ‘antisemitism’ – but has found his freedom from the ‘secretive, unscrupulous’ organisation so liberating that he is not going back. ● The man, who is not being named, has been exonerated by Labour’s ‘Independent Complaints Board’ (ICB) in a damning finding that concludes the party is still ignoring the 2020 findings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which criticised Labour’s lack of transparency, shoddy processes and disregard for evidence. ● The result is even more damning in light of the fact that Keir Starmer gave pro-Israel groups a veto over who can sit on the ‘independent’ ICB and left-wing Jewish groups have been excluded.