Israel’s Netanyahu says peace with Lebanon and Syria possible
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel's war with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah had created the possibility for peace...
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With cash and aid, Saudi Arabia pursues soft power push in Syria
Saudi Arabia has spent months courting Syria's new leaders, aiming to draw closer a country long dominated by Iran and...
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Muslim boy killed in US attack linked to Israel-Hamas war
Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them...
- Child was stabbed 26 times by his landlord on Saturday and later died at hospital, while his 32-year-old mother was also wounded
- Authorities said the woman managed to call 911 as she fought off the landlord, named by the sheriff's office as 71-year-old Joseph Czuba
Biden says Israeli occupation of Gaza would be ‘big mistake’
Israel, seeking vengeance for an attack by Hamas on October 7, has declared war on the militant group, launching a...
- Hamas "don't represent all the Palestinian people but invading and "taking out the extremists" is a "necessary requirement," Biden said
- The United States has already deployed two aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean in a powerful show of support for Israel
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One million Gazans flee as Israel readies for ground attack
Following an Israeli order to move to the south of the Gaza Strip, people have fled their homes in the...
- Israel declared war on the Islamist group a day after waves of its fighters broke through the heavily fortified border on October 7
- Israel unleashed a relentless bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip that has flattened neighbourhoods and killed at least 2,670 people
‘If we bathe, we won’t drink’: Gazans struggle as water supplies dwindle
UN estimates that about one million people have been displaced since Israel began a relentless aerial bombardment of Gaza in...
- Israel also cut off all water, electricity and food supplies to the densely-populated coastal enclave, before resuming water to the south on Sunday
- Despite the Israeli evacuation order, there were air strikes in the south, including in Rafah, where one resident said a doctor's house was targeted
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Expelling Gazans from their homes non-starter: Blinken
As Israeli politicians look to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip into neighbouring Egypt, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
- Blinken told the Al-Arabiya television network that people should be able to stay in Gaza, their home
- Israel's former minister Daniel Ayalon has called for Egypt to cooperate and set up tent cities for Palestinians
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Aid meant for Gaza stuck in Egypt as Rafah crossing is closed
ISMAILIA, EGYPT - Convoys of humanitarian aid stacked up near Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday, unable to enter...
- Witnesses said concrete blocks installed by the Egyptians to fortify the border following Israel's bombings were still in place.
- The Rafah crossing - the only passage in and out of the Gaza Strip not controlled by Israel - has been closed since Tuesday.
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Turkish excavations offer vital clues of human history
Gobekli Tepe - which experts believe was never actually inhabited - may be part of a vast sacred landscape that...
- A 2.3-meter carved statue was discovered in September at Karahantepe, in the heart of a complex of some 20 sites.
- Karahantepe is part of the network around UNESCO-listed Gobekli Tepe, a place older than the Egyptian pyramids.
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Israel readies to invade Gaza where one million have fled homes
Israel has massed forces outside the long-blockaded enclave of 2.4 million in preparation for what the army has said would...
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited front line troops in the south near Gaza on Saturday, wearing a flak jacket. "Are you ready for what is coming?" he said.
- Planeloads of Israelis have returned from around the world to join the latest of the many wars in Israel's 75-year history.
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Israel acting beyond scope of self-defense: China FM
Wang's remarks, made on a call to his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Saturday, came as Israel...
- More than one million people in northern part of Gaza have been ordered to flee ahead of the expected assault, an exodus that aid groups said would set off a humanitarian disaster
- China's official statements on the conflict have not specifically named Hamas in their condemnations of violence, leading to criticism from some Western officials
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Blinken presses for pressure on Hamas in meeting with Saudi crown prince
The top US diplomat has been touring the region after Hamas fighters infiltrated Israel from the blockaded Gaza Strip on...
- US diplomat met for nearly an hour in the early morning with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the royal's farm residence in the Riyadh area
- Blinken "highlighted the US' unwavering focus on halting attacks by Hamas, securing the release of all hostages and preventing the conflict from spreading
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Israel’s Netanyahu says peace with Lebanon and Syria possible
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel's war with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah had created the possibility for peace...
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Palestinian president Abbas appoints Fatah veteran Hussein al Sheikh as potential successor
Abbas's close aide, 69-year-old Hussein was appointed as the first ever vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization after the...
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Russia says retook Kursk from Ukraine with North Korean help
The Russian army has fully liberated the border Kursk region from Ukrainian control with the help of North Korean soldiers,...
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Hamas says open to 5-year Gaza truce, one-time hostages release
Cairo, Egypt - Hamas is open to an agreement to end the war in Gaza that would see all hostages...
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Trump, Zelensky meet on sidelines of pope’s funeral
US President Donald Trump on Saturday criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for attacks on civilian areas of Ukraine in recent...
- Zelensky said they discussed a possible unconditional ceasefire with Russia and was "hoping for results" from a "very symbolic meeting that has the potential to become historic."
- The war cast a shadow over preparations for Francis's funeral, and even as it took place, Russia claimed its forces had "fully liberated" the border Kursk region
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Tariff war: Xi says China must ‘overcome’ AI chip challenges
Beijing, China - President Xi Jinping said China must "overcome" the challenges of developing core AI technologies including high-end chips,...
- China aims to dominate the artificial intelligence sector, a goal complicated by the trade standoff with Washington
- Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative AI models have proliferated in the United States and China
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India, Pakistan and threats of a water war: what we know
India, furious after a deadly attack, has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, with Islamabad warning any attempt to...
- The 65-year-old pact was considered a rare diplomatic success story between bitter nuclear-armed rivals who have fought multiple conflicts
- But one thing experts on both sides of the border agree on is that while important, its suspension will have limited immediate impact on water