The US police have arrested pro-Palestine activists who shut down an arms company that supplies Israel with weapons in protest against the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

The Mapping project is a collective project of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions – or BDS - group in Boston which aims to map the intersection of the Zionist movement and elements of US imperial power and action.

A path-breaking initiative by pro-Palestine advocacy groups in Massachusetts seeks to connect the dots between Zionism and Western imperialism.

Thousands of people have taken part in mass rallies across the globe to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the Nakba Day, or “Catastrophe,” which marks the 1948 forced expulsion of nearly 800,000 Palestinians as Israel proclaimed its illegal existence.

A hospital in Boston, the United States, has refused to perform a heart transplant on a 31-year-old patient because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19, according to his family.

Here is the latest top stories from Press TV on May 16, 2021.

Images of the headless statue of Christopher Columbus in Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park in Boston, Massachusetts.