Israel conducts deadly strikes on Lebanon after ‘cross-border rocket fire’ denied by Hezbollah
Israeli defence chiefs said they held the Lebanese government responsible for all hostile fire from its territory regardless of who...Geostrategy
UN warns of ‘massive trauma’ for Gaza’s children amid renewed fighting
Sam Rose, the senior deputy field director in Gaza for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, highlighted the psychological...Geostrategy
Israel, Arab allies talk security at Negev Forum in Abu Dhabi
Around 150 representatives from Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the UAE and the United States discussed boosting security cooperation through information...The US State Department described the two-day discussion in #AbuDhabi as "the largest meeting between Israel and its regional partners" since a 1991 Madrid conference.
The Abu Dhabi gathering follows a visit last week to Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque compound by Israel's new right-wing national security minister, firebrand Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Masdar inks deal to produce 1GW of clean energy in Kyrgyzstan
ABU DHABI, UAE - Masdar has announced the signing of an agreement with the Ministry of Energy of Kyrgyz Republic...The projects, with a total capacity of up to 1 gigawatt (GW), start with a 200-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) plant.
The 200 MW plant is scheduled to begin operation by 2026.
Record cocaine seizures in Antwerp as Belgium battles drug gangs
The annual figure was released one day after an 11-year-old girl was shot dead in a gun attack on an...Seizures in 2022 were up from 89.5 tons last year. Across the Netherlands border, in nearby Rotterdam and Vlissingen, Dutch police battling the same gangs intercepted a further 52.
The European drugs monitoring agency estimated in 2020 that the EU retail cocaine market was worth between 7.7 billion and 10.5 billion euros.
2022 fifth warmest year on record, EU climate report says
The last eight years were the warmest. Average temperatures across 2022 -- which saw a cascade of unprecedented natural disasters...Pakistan and northern India were scorched by a two-month spring heatwave with sustained temperatures well above 40 degrees C, followed in Pakistan by massive floods.
Large swathes of the Middle East, China, central Asia and northern Africa also saw unprecedented warmth averaged across the whole of 2022.
Saudi Arabia lifts restriction on hajj pilgrim numbers
The pilgrimage - one of five pillars of Islam, and which all able-bodied Muslims with the means are required to...The number of pilgrims will return to what it was before the pandemic, without any age limit, Minister of Hajj and Umrah Tawfiq al-Rabiah told reporters in Riyadh.
In 2022, nearly 900,000 pilgrims, including some 780,000 from abroad, were welcomed to Islam's holiest cities of Mecca and Medina
Israel parliament begins vote on controversial West Bank settler law
The law gives settlers in the occupied West Bank access to civilian law, while their Palestinian neighbours face military courts....The legislation, which has been repeatedly renewed since Israel seized the Palestinian territory in the 1967 Six-Day War, hit a stumbling block in June.
The text will face a second and third reading in parliament before its final approval. Some 2.9 million Palestinians living in the West Bank are subjected to Israeli military law.
Prince Harry’s memoir goes on sale, after months of publicity
Some British stores stayed open late for the midnight release of the biggest royal book since Harry's mother Princess Diana...The book contains a claim from Harry that his brother William physically attacked him as they argued about Meghan
A YouGov poll on Monday found that 64 percent people now have a negative view of the once-popular ginger prince -- his lowest-ever rating
Iran sends ex-president’s daughter to jail for ‘propaganda’
The 60-year-old former lawmaker and women's rights activist was charged with "collusion against national security, propaganda against the Islamic republic...Hashemi was arrested in the capital Tehran on September 27 for encouraging residents to demonstrate amid nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death
Her late father, president between 1989 and 1997 who died in 2017, was considered a moderate and advocated improved ties with the West
Morocco raises migrants’ jail time over Melilla tragedy: lawyer
More than six months after 23 people died in an attempt to cross into the Spanish enclave of Melilla from...The Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) put the number of dead at 27, while rights group Amnesty International said at least 37 people lost their lives
Melilla and its sister enclave of Ceuta have long been a magnet for those desperate to escape grinding poverty and hunger
Israeli tough measures a ‘new war’ against Palestinian Authority: PM
Israel's new right-wing government said Friday it will withhold millions of dollars in tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority. This...Israel's new right-wing government said Friday it will withhold millions of dollars in tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority.
Israel revoked VIP passes for several officials, including Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki.
