Geneva talks loom as Trump backs regime change and redeploys second US carrier
The Pentagon confirmed that the USS Gerald R. Ford is being moved from the Caribbean toward the Middle East, a...
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The GCC must deploy its ‘strategic advantages’ to lead the transition
The models that once governed aid, CSR, employment, and economic engagement are shifting, and the GCC has an opportunity to...
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Hezbollah commander among two killed in Israeli strike: source
Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike on a car in the country's south killed two people Tuesday, with a...
- Hezbollah said that one of its fighters, a field commander, Hussein Makki, was "martyred on the road to Jerusalem'
- At least 413 people have been killed in Lebanon in seven months of cross-border violence,
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Palestinians mark ‘Nakba’ anniversary as thousands flee Gaza’s Rafah
Tens of thousands of civilians fled the southern Gaza city of Rafah ahead of a threatened Israeli ground offensive, as...
- Nearly 450,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Rafah since May 6
- Right-wing activists stopped and ransacked at least seven Gaza-bound aid trucks coming from Jordan
Quarter of Gazans displaced again as fighting rages north to south
Fighting has flared in north Gaza four months after the army said Hamas's command structure there had been dismantled, and...
- Clashes have rocked the densely crowded far southern city of Rafah but also flared again in northern and central Gaza months after troops and tanks first entered those areas
- US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel on Tuesday said that while Washington backed military pressure on Hamas, it was not the only way to "fully defeat" the group
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Lebanon resumes ‘voluntary’ repatriations of Syrians
Syrian state news agency SANA reported that an unspecified number of people had arrived from Lebanon as part of the...
- Around 330 people had registered to be part of the "voluntary return"
- Lebanon, which has been mired in a crushing economic crisis since late 2019, says it hosts around two million Syrians, the world's highest number of refugees per capita
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Fierce fighting rocks Gaza after US warning of anarchy, insurgency
The city on the Egyptian border had been sheltering 1.4 million Palestinians, according to the United Nations, but Israel's military...
- AFP correspondents in Gaza reported helicopter strikes and heavy artillery shelling in the east of Rafah, as well as battles in northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp
- Israel last week defied a chorus of warnings - including from top ally Washington - and sent tanks and troops into the east of Rafah to pursue fighters
Israel opens new border crossing into northern Gaza
Israel said its Kerem Shalom southern crossing with Gaza reopened on Wednesday, three days after being closed because of rocket...
- Israeli tanks entered Rafah in southern Gaza on Tuesday, seizing control of the Palestinian side of the crossing from Egypt
- The United Nations has said it has not been able to receive aid through Gaza's two main crossings in days
Hamas says Israeli-British hostage held in Gaza dead
Popplewell was kidnapped from his home during Hamas's October 7 attack along with his mother, Hanna Peri, who was released...
- Earlier on Saturday, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades released an 11-second clip showing captive Nadav Popplewell alive and identifying himself
- In the video, the footage was superimposed with text in Arabic and Hebrew that read: "Time is running out. Your government is lying."
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US slams Israel’s use of American weapons in Gaza
The US has warned that the reputational damage Israel will suffer if it storms a city where an estimated 1.4...
- Israel's main international ally said it was "reasonable to assess" that Israel has used weapons in ways inconsistent with international humanitarian law
- Relations between the two allies sunk earlier in the week after US President Joe Biden threatened to halt some arms deliveries if Israel went ahead with an assault on Rafah
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Kuwait emir dissolves parliament in new political crisis
The state's ruler attributed his move to the "interference" of some MPs in the emir's powers and others imposing "conditions"...
- The Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) said "an emiri order was issued to dissolve the national assembly and suspend some articles of the constitution for a period not exceeding four years
- It said the emir, Sheikh Meshaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and the council of ministers were "assuming the powers granted to the national assembly."
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Hamas says ‘ball is completely’ in Israel’s hands in Gaza truce talks
"The negotiating delegation left Cairo heading to Doha. In practice, the occupation (Israel) rejected the proposal submitted by the mediators...
- State-linked Egyptian outlet Al-Qahera News reported Thursday that representatives of both camps left Cairo after two days of negotiations
- Efforts by Egypt and other mediators, namely Qatar and the United States, "continue to bring the points of view of the two parties closer together", the outlet added
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Geneva talks loom as Trump backs regime change and redeploys second US carrier
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China’s Xi calls on BRICS countries to ‘resist all forms of protectionism’
Beijing, China -- Chinese President Xi Jinping called on the 11-nation BRICS bloc to "resist all forms of protectionism" at...
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Colman, Ruffalo among 1,500 film workers to boycott Israeli cinemas
The signatories included British actors Aimee Lou Wood, Josh O'Connor and Tilda Swinton, American actors Ayo Edebiri and Cynthia Nixon,...
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Iran will accept nuclear curbs and restrictions to uranium enrichment if sanctions lifted: report
Iran will accept limits on its nuclear programme and restrictions to uranium enrichment if international sanctions are lifted, its foreign...
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Russia hits Ukraine govt offices in war’s biggest air attack
Kyiv, Ukraine -- Russia fired its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine early Sunday, killing four people and setting government offices...
- Drone strikes also damaged several high-rise buildings in the Ukrainian capital, according to emergency services.
- Russia fired at least 810 drones and 13 missiles at Ukraine between late Saturday and early Sunday in a new record, according to the Ukrainian air force.
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Saudi launches Damascus area reconstruction project
Damascus, Syria -- Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday humanitarian projects for Syria including the removal of wartime rubble around Damascus,...
- Saudi Arabia's KSrelief has announced the project to clear over 75,000 cubic meters of rubble from the capital and its surrounding areas.
- In late July, Riyadh pledged $6.4 billion in investment and partnership deals with Syria.
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Drone attack from Yemen injures man at Israeli airport: army, medics
A drone launched from Yemen injured a man when it fell on Ramon airport in southern Israel on Sunday, Israel's...
- "Paramedics are providing medical treatment... to a 63-year-old male in mild condition, with shrapnel injuries to his limbs," the emergency service said in a statement
- Israel assassinated the head of the Iran-backed Huthi government together with 11 other senior officials in air strikes two weeks ago