Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ

LAST weekend on a popular network television programme, longtime South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, appeared to suggest that Israel should use nuclear weapons to end its war in Gaza.
His remarks echoed those of Illinois Congressman Republican Tim Walberg, who suggested in March that the war in Gaza ”should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”
Graham asserted on the programme Meet the Press that the US decision to “end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons” was “the right decision.

Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter

Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER