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Israel says forces carrying out ‘offensive action’ in south Lebanon
Israeli forces are carrying out "offensive action" across southern Lebanon, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday without specifying whether ground...Geostrategy
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Syria has held ‘meetings’ with US: Assad
The United States was among the first to cut ties with Assad over the repression of anti-government protests that sparked...Geostrategy
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Lebanon’s Hizbollah targets Israel base, wounding 14 soldiers
Hours after the strike on Arab al-Aramshe, an Arab-majority village in northern Israel near the border, Israeli forces hit targets...Israel and Hizbollah, an Iran-backed Hamas ally, have been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire since the Palestinian group attacked southern Israel on October 7
But Hizbollah strikes in the past few days have included a growing use of explosive drones and wounded people in Israel, which has struck deeper into Lebanon in recent weeks
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Italy PM Meloni visits Tunisia for migration talks
Meloni's latest visit to Tunisia came as part of her so-called Mattei Plan, a program aiming to posit Italy as...Meloni met with Saied, who vowed in a national security meeting the day before that Tunisia "will be neither a center nor a crossing point" for sub-Saharan migrants
"Cooperation on migration remains a central aspect of the relationship between Italy and Tunisia," Italian officials said
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UN Security Council to vote this Thursday on full Palestinian membership
Against the backdrop of the grinding conflict in Gaza, a city largely devastated by more than six months of war...The Palestinians formally revived this April an application first made to the world body in 2011
Statehood requires a defined territory, a permanent population, a government and the ability to enter into international relations
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US, EU to impose fresh sanctions on Iran following recent missile attack on Israel
The United States announced Tuesday that it was preparing new sanctions on Iran's missile and drone program after last weekend’s...Washington would impose new sanctions targeting Iran, including its missile and drone program
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Brussels is working on expanding sanctions against Iran's supplies of weaponry
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Putin talks to Raisi, expresses hope for restraint in Middle East
Moscow, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, discussed the latest escalation in the Middle...According to the Kremlin, the Iranian leader said that Iran’s action was limited as he assured Putin that Tehran was not "seeking to escalate tensions further"
Iran's President Raisi warned that "the slightest action against Iran's interests will definitely be met with a severe, extensive and painful response."
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Jordan says won’t become ‘theatre of war’ between Israel and Iran
If the Gaza war raging since October 7 has created tough challenges for Jordan, it now faces the additional threat...Jordan was among a group of nations that helped Israel shoot down missiles, rockets and attack drones launched by Iran
Jordan stressed its aim was to safeguard its own sovereignty rather than defend Israel
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‘Bad for business’: Gulf states scramble to avert wider war
Gulf states are grappling with the widening Middle East conflict as hostilities between Iran and Israel threaten their security and...Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have both faced previous attacks on oil facilities
The conflict is increasingly creating a new regional balance of power
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Iran closed nuclear facilities in wake of Israel attack: IAEA chief
Tehran, Iran Iran temporarily closed its nuclear facilities over "security considerations" in the wake of its massive missile and drone...International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi: "All (Iranian) nuclear facilities that we are inspecting every day would remain closed
Israel has carried out operations against nuclear sites in the region before
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Palestinian officials say Israeli settlers kill two in West Bank
The West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has seen a surge in violence since early last year, particularly...The Palestinian health ministry named the victims of the attack near Nablus as Abdulrahman Maher Bani Fadel, 30, and Mohammed Ashraf Bani Jame, 21
The mayor of Aqraba, Salah Bani Jaber, told AFP "dozens of settlers attacked" the nearby hamlet of Khirbet al-Tawil late on Monday
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GCC nations express deep concern over Iran-Israel skirmishes
In light of the military escalation and developments in the Middle East region, the Ministerial Council of the Gulf Cooperation...In light of the military escalation and developments in the Middle East region, the Ministerial Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council held its 44th extraordinary meeting
The council expressed its deep concern over the recent, dangerous developments of military escalation in the Middle East region and their negative impact