Putin and Modi in China for summit hosted by Xi
President Xi Jinping gathered the leaders of Russia and India among dignitaries from around 20 Eurasian countries on Sunday to...
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Yemen’s Huthis say PM killed in Israeli strike, the most senior Huthi official to have died so far
Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser Al-Rahawi, who was appointed last year, was killed along with other officials in the Israeli attack on...
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UN agency for Palestinian refugees needs $1.6 bn for vital works in 2023
The agency warned that most Palestinian refugees now live below the poverty line and a growing number are dependent on...
- The agency, which counts nearly 30,000 staff -- most of them Palestinian refugees -- runs more than 700 schools.
- UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said the agency played "an indispensable role" for millions of Palestinian refugees.
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Jordan’s king meets Israeli PM Netanyahu in Amman
Jordan's King Abdullah II hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Amman in a rare meeting after years of strained...
- Jordan in 1994 became the second Arab country to recognize and sign a peace treaty with neighboring Israel, after Egypt.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the Israeli leader discussed "regional issues" and bilateral ties with the Jordanian king.
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Lebanese prosecutor general charged in Beirut port blast
Ghassan Oueidat had in 2019 overseen a security services investigation into cracks in the warehouse where the ammonium nitrate was...
- Judge Tarek Bitar charged Lebanon's top prosecutor Oueidat and the three judges, with "homicide, arson and sabotage".
- One of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions destroyed most of Beirut port and surrounding areas on August 4, 2020.
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Israel doubts remain despite UAE Holocaust education
Dubai's Holocaust Gallery is the only permanent exhibition on Arab soil about Nazi Germany's genocide of European Jews.
- Arab nations generally have generally been reluctant to tackle Holocaust as it was a key factor leading to the 1948 creation of Israel and expulsion of Palestinians.
- "Those who had suffered injustice should protect those who suffer injustice -- and not act unjustly," reads a message in the visitors' book in Dubai gallery.
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Quran desecration: Turkey, Indonesia summon Swedish, Dutch envoys
Swedish-Danish politician Rasmus Paludan on Saturday torched a copy of the Islamic holy book in front of Turkey's embassy in...
- Turkey on Tuesday summoned the Dutch ambassador to express its deep displeasure with an anti-Islam protest in The Hague targeting the Quran.
- The high representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations has condemned the burning of the holy book as a “vile act”.
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France repatriates 15 women, 32 children from Syrian jihadist camps
The children returned to France on Tuesday were at the Roj camp in northeast Syria under Kurdish administration, about 15...
- Rights groups have been pressing for years for France to take back the wives and children of fighters held in the camps since the IS group was ousted from the country in 2019
- The lawyer who published the UN torture committee ruling, Marie Dose, said 150 French women and children were being held in the Syria camps before Tuesday's repatriation
Iran vows response to new EU, UK sanctions over protests
The EU and Britain on Monday slapped another round of sanctions on Iran which has been rocked by protests since...
- Iran's warning of tit-for-tat measures comes after relations deteriorated sharply, with the EU and Britain ramping up sanctions over the country's response to the protests
- The EU imposed its fourth round of sanctions against Tehran since the protests started, placing 37 more Iranian officials and entities on an asset freeze and visa ban blacklist
UN faults climate change for jump in human trafficking risks
The UN drugs agency noted that an increase in cases of human trafficking had been observed in Bangladesh and the...
- The continuing war in Ukraine is also another risk factor for increased human trafficking, UNODC said
- The UN report is based on data from 141 countries collected from 2017 to 2020, and the analysis of 800 court cases
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Morocco votes to review ties with European Parliament
Morocco's Parliament "decided to reconsider its relations with the European Parliament and submit them for an overall evaluation," said Rachid...
- Members of both houses of Morocco's parliament met in the capital Rabat for a joint session in response to the non-binding European text adopted on Thursday
- In a statement later, they called the European resolution "an unacceptable attack against the sovereignty, dignity and independence of judicial institutions in the kingdom
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Kuwait’s government resigns, three months after taking power
Three months after it was sworn in, Kuwait's government tendered its resignation in the wake of disputes with lawmakers, plunging...
- The official news agency said that the prime minister submitted the cabinet's resignation to Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah,
- The government was sworn-in in October with fighting corruption among its priorities, after the opposition reaped major gains in parliamentary elections
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Israel launches deadly Gaza strikes, says ready for new truce talks
Palestinian Territories - Israel launched devastating air strikes on Gaza Thursday, while also expressing readiness to resume stalled talks on...
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Tens of thousands bid farewell to Iran’s Raisi ahead of burial
Men and women thronged the main boulevard of Mashhad, Iran's second city in the northeast where Raisi was born, bidding...
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Norway, Ireland, Spain to recognize Palestinian state
The announcement is the second diplomatic blow this week after the International Criminal Court prosecutor said he would seek arrest...
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Medics, WHO say north Gaza hospitals barely operational
North Gaza's last two functioning hospitals, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan, are barely operational, doctors and the World Health Organization said...
- Israeli forces had fired on the facilities and that snipers had been deployed near one of them.
- Israel's military accuses Hamas of using hospitals as command centers to plan and launch attacks against its forces
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US and UN ‘shocked’ over Israel’s ban on American news agency AP
After shutting down offices and confiscating equipment of the Al Jazeera news channel in Israel, Netanyahu's government has shut down...
- Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid reacted to the decision on X, saying the government "went crazy".
- US news agency Associated Press has won 53 Pulitzer Prizes - one of the highest honors in news journalism
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Israel, Hamas reject bid before ICC to arrest leaders for war crimes
Israel and Hamas, engaged in heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip, both angrily rejected on Monday moves to arrest their...
- Israel slammed as a "historical disgrace" the demand targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
- US President Joe Biden denounced the ICC bid as "outrageous"