Syria announces plan with Jordan, US to restore calm in Druze-majority Sweida
Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani announced on Tuesday a plan backed by Jordan and the United States to restore calm...
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UN rights expert says complicity with Gaza ‘genocide’ ‘shame of our time’
Albanese added that "this genocide has something different, is openly incited, cynically denied and relentlessly supported, armed and weaponized, while...
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Israel forces kill Palestinian in alleged knife attack
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army described...
- The Israeli army said that the Palestinian "attempted to carry out a stabbing attack" near the Jewish settlement of Kdumim.
- Last year, 150 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank, the highest annual toll since United Nations records began in 2005.
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Chris Hipkins replaces Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand PM
Ardern said last week she no longer had "enough in the tank" after steering the country through natural disasters, its...
- The 44-year-old is now tasked with reversing the government's sagging popularity, which has been hampered by a deteriorating economy and a resurgent conservative opposition.
- Ardern, a global figurehead of progressive politics, has been credited with raising New Zealand's profile on the world stage.
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Lebanese protest as local currency hits new low
Lebanese protesters blocked roads and burnt tires near the central bank in Beirut as the local currency plummeted to a...
- Lebanese banks have imposed draconian restrictions on withdrawals since the country's economy collapsed three years ago.
- Dozens of protesters gathered Wednesday near the central bank headquarters amid heavy deployment of security forces.
Sweden wants to resume ‘dialogue’ with Turkey on NATO
"Our collective message is that we want to call for calm, for reflection, for calm in the process so that...
- Turkey earlier in the day said it had postponed upcoming NATO accession talks with Sweden and Finland originally scheduled for February
- The Swedish PM said there were provocateurs who wanted to spoil Sweden's relations with other countries and foil its bid to join the NATO
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UN nuclear head to travel to Iran next month to restart talks
Brussels, Belgium--The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said Tuesday he plans to go to Iran next month for "much needed"...
- Rafael Grossi said that he may go to Tehran "for a much needed political dialogue, or reestablishment thereof, with Iran"
- He noted that the big stockpile of enriched uranium "doesn't mean they have a nuclear weapon"
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India, Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019: Mike Pompeo
Nearly four years after India and Pakistan used fighter planes to bomb targets in divided Kashmir, former US secretary of...
- India launched airstrikes inside Pakistani territory after blaming a militant group there for a suicide bombing that killed 41 Indian paramilitary soldiers
- Pakistan shot down an Indian warplane, capturing the pilot
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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.
Syria announces plan with Jordan, US to restore calm in Druze-majority Sweida
Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani announced on Tuesday a plan backed by Jordan and the United States to restore calm...
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Afghanistan special envoys to meet in Doha
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Early returns show reformist Pezeshkian leading Iran runoff vote: interior ministry
Iran held the first round of its snap presidential election last week which was marked by a record low turnout....
Reformist faces ultraconservative as Iran votes for president
In a contest between reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, the election comes amid heightened regional tension
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah rains rockets on Israel as Gaza war rages
Fire and smoke billows after rockets fired from southern Lebanon hit areas in northern Israel on July 4, 2024. (AFP).
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Syrian-based armed Iraqi groups ready to fight Israel to support Lebanon if war breaks out
As war rages in Gaza and threatens to spread to Lebanon, Iraqi militant groups warn they are ready to enter...
- Pro-Iran armed groups so-called "Axis of Resistance" is an alliance that includes Lebanon's Hezbollah and Yemen's Huthi rebels
- In late January, a drone strike launched by Iraqi armed groups killed three US soldiers across the border in Jordan
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Pro-Palestinian group scales Australia’s parliament
Sydney, Australia - Protesters scaled Australia's national parliament on Thursday, unfurling banners reading "Palestine will be free", and accusing Prime Minister...
- The protest follows recent divisions within the Labor government, which suspended a Muslim senator who voted in favour of Australia recognizing a Palestinian state
- Senator Fatima Payman said she had been "exiled" after supporting the parliamentary motion - put forward by the Greens party - in defiance of government policy
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Israel will not allow ‘winds of defeatism’ in Hamas war: Netanyahu
After a visit to troops on Monday, he said: "I saw very considerable achievements in the fighting being carried in...
- After the October 7 attacks by Hamas, Netanyahu's right-wing government vowed to destroy Hamas and return all hostages seized during the deadly incursion by the Palestinian group
- Netanyahu made his new vow of victory after the New York Times quoted sources as saying Israel was ready to make a deal without reaching all its goals