Israel recalls Gaza negotiators after Hamas responds to ceasefire plan
Mediators have been shuttling between Israeli and Hamas delegations in Qatar for more than two weeks, but the indirect talks have...
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Trump admin unveils AI strategy to maintain US dominance
The 25-page "America's AI Action Plan" outlines three aims: accelerating innovation, building infrastructure, and leading internationally on AI. Overall, the...
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US president faces historic leadership task in Europe
Leader of the free world sounds like a superhero character, but the Joe Biden heading this week to twin European...
- Biden will tout the success of a monumental effort to rally the West and breathe new life into NATO
- Biden refers to his presidency as an inflection point in a battle for the survival of Western democracy against the likes of Russian President Putin
Earthquake destroys more than 2,000 homes in Afghanistan
An estimated 2,000 homes have been destroyed by the deadly earthquake in Afghanistan, and a lack of machinery is hampering...
- "We believe that nearly 2,000 homes are destroyed," the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Afghanistan Ramiz Alakbarov told reporters
- Even before the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan's emergency response teams were stretched to deal with the natural disasters that frequently struck the country
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Israel to reinstate increase in entry permits for Gaza workers
Israel on Wednesday said it was reinstating an increase in entry permits for Palestinian workers from the blockaded Gaza Strip,...
- COGAT said decision regarding entry through Gaza Strip would take effect in coming days "provided that the security situation in the area remains quiet"
- Earlier, Israel suspended entry permits for Palestinian workers from Gaza in response of the rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave to Jewish state
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Biden trip: ‘More Arab nations to improve ties with Israel’
Barbara Leaf, the top US diplomat for the Middle East, said that the Biden administration was encouraging greater cooperation between...
- Barbara Leaf, the top US diplomat for the Middle East, said that the Biden administration was encouraging greater cooperation between Israel and the Arab nations
- The UAE, Bahrain and Morocco in 2020 became the first Arab states in decades to normalize relations with Israel as part of the so-called Abraham Accords
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Russia FM in Iran for talks on boosting cooperation
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Iran on Wednesday for talks on boosting trade and energy cooperation as the...
- During his two-day visit, Russia's top diplomat is expected to discuss with Iranian officials the 2015 "nuclear deal, the situations in Ukraine, Syria and Afghanistan
- Lavrov will meet with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday, official news agency IRNA said
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No rift with Arab govts over Abu Akleh’s death: Israel
Arab govts in touch with Israel have no differences with it regarding the May 4 incident, Eliav Benjamin, Israeli foreign...
- Arab govts in touch with Israel have no differences with it regarding the May 4 incident, Eliav Benjamin, Israeli foreign ministry director for Middle East affairs, tells TRENDS
- The Israeli army cannot be trusted to investigate itself, says Dror Sadot, spokeswoman for the Israeli human rights group B'tselem
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International coalition of journalists demands Assange release from UK jail
An international coalition of journalists, editors and publishers demanded Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be immediately released from a...
- Fifteen representatives of international journalist and publishers' unions and organisations gathered in Geneva for the "call to free Julian Assange in the name of press freedom".
- Assange's long-running legal saga began in 2010 after WikiLeaks published more than 500,000 classified US documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
More than 100 killed in Afghanistan earthquake
Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, which lies near the junction of the...
- In Paktika province of Afghanistan, local markets are closed as people have rushed to help earthquake affected areas
- Photographs and video clips posted on social media showed badly damaged mud houses due to the 5.9 magnitude quack that struck Afghanistan last night
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US pledges support as Israel heads to elect new PM
Blinken, in a telephone call to Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who will become caretaker prime minister confirmed that President Joe...
- Blinken, in a telephone call to Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who will become caretaker prime minister confirmed that President Joe Biden still plans to visit Israel next month
- The coalition government led by the right-wing Naftali Bennett and centrist Lapid had sought to tone down and depoliticize Israel's relations with the United States
Egypt calls for reality check in UN climate talks
Egypt hopes to jump-start the action needed to face a warming world when it takes the presidency of major UN...
- The challenge of maintaining international momentum on climate change has been made even harder as the world faces a catalog of challenges, with Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- Ambassador Mohamed Nasr said that while Egypt's presidency of the conference would have "African flavor and African vision", it would remain resolutely international in focus
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Israel recalls Gaza negotiators after Hamas responds to ceasefire plan
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WHO shifts 32 patients out of ‘indescribable’ Gaza hospital
Geneva, Switzerland - The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it had transferred 32 patients out of the besieged Nasser Hospital...
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UN pauses aid in Gaza after food convoy attacked and looted
The World Food Program (WFP) resumed deliveries on Sunday after a three-week halt but its convoy "faced complete chaos and...
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Global operation smashes ‘most harmful cyber crime group’
LONDON, UK - An international operation led by UK and US law enforcement has severely disrupted "the world's most harmful cybercrime...
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26 EU states demand ‘immediate’ halt in Gaza fighting: Borrell
The European Union has struggled for a united response on Israel's military operation following the October 7 attack by Hamas....
- EU countries also reiterated their calls for Israel not to launch an assault on the Gaza city of Rafah, which has become the main shelter zone in the stricken territory.
- Israel has warned that, unless Hamas frees all hostages, it will push on with its offensive during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, including in Rafah
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Sudan refugees face agonizing wait in overcrowded camps
Renk is just 10 kilometers (six miles) from Sudan, where fighting broke out in April last year between army chief...
- Nearly 560,000 displaced people have taken refuge in South Sudan, according to the UN, which estimates that around 1,500 new arrivals turn up in the country every day
- UN says 25 million people in Sudan need humanitarian assistance, while around 3.8 million children under the age of five are suffering from malnutrition
UN agencies warn of ‘explosion’ in Gaza child deaths
Twenty weeks into Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, UN agencies warned that food and safe water had...
- At least 90 percent of children under five in Gaza are affected by one or more infectious diseases, according to a joint assessment by the UN agencies
- Seventy percent children had had diarrhea in the two weeks prior to the assessment, marking a 23-fold increase compared to the 2022 baseline