Middle East
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The Egyptian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned Israeli airstrikes Tuesday on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza that left hundreds dead and injured. “Egypt strongly condemns the Israeli inhumane targeting of an entire residential square in Jabalia camp northern Gaza and left hundreds killed and injured,” it said in a statement. The Foreign Ministry considered…
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Global commodity markets could face “dual shock” when the latest conflict in the Middle East, on top of disruptions caused by the Russian war on Ukraine, escalates, the World Bank warned on Monday. This could push global commodity markets into “uncharted waters,” the bank said in its latest Commodity Markets Outlook report. The bank expected…
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In the aftermath of the hospital strike in Gaza, protests have emerged across the Arab world. People gathered around Israeli embassies in Turkey and Jordan, while in Lebanon people could be seen around the US embassy. Palestinian security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters in the occupied West Bank city of…
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A summit between between Palestinian, US, Jordanian and Egyptian leaders, has been cancelled, just hours before Joe Biden was due to visit the region. The US president was set to meet them after his visit to Israel on Wednesday. The summit’s cancellation is a blow to Mr Biden’s diplomatic efforts over the Middle East crisis.…
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Vladimir Putin has called for a ceasefire – but not for the war he’s embroiled in. The Kremlin has urged that guns stop firing immediately in Israel and Gaza, according to Russian news agency TASS. It also called for the start of a political settlement process. Mr Putin is set to discuss the situation with…
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Hundreds of children and women are reported to have been killed in Gaza following days of Israeli airstrikes – as the US said Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel was “equivalent to ten 9/11s”. At least 500 children and 276 women are among the estimated 1,537 Palestinians who have died with more than 6,000 wounded, the…
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Israel’s response to attacks from Gaza by the Islamist militant group Hamas will change the Middle East, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. “What Hamas will face will be harsh and terrible,’’ Netanyahu told officials from towns in southern Israel. We are only at the beginning,” he said. Israeli airstrikes have pounded targets in…
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Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned a deadly Houthi attack on a Bahraini defense force of the Arab coalition. On Monday, Bahrain’s military command said a drone attack carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebel group killed one of its officers and a soldier along the border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Foreign Ministry expressed…
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Yemen’s national airline Yemenia Airways restarted direct flights from Houthi-held Sanaa to Saudi Arabia after a suspension that lasted seven years. The first two commercial flights took off from Sanaa’s international airport on June 17 and 19, and one more has been scheduled for June 21. According to the Yemeni airport, these flights are among the five that…
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Blockaded by Israel since 2007, the Gaza Strip only has electricity for 12 hours per day on average – less when the conflict escalates. So, in recent years, people across the Palestinian enclave have been turning to solar energy to power their businesses and homes. Yasser al-Hajj, who owns a seaside fish farm and restaurant,…
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Six women with roots in the Middle East and North Africa have emerged as powerbrokers in different European countries. Here is a look at these women who are climbing the political ladder in Europe. Rima Abdul Malak: France’s culture champion The Lebanese-born Ms Abdul Malak was appointed Culture Minister in May after three years as an aide…
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As Western nations struggled to ramp up the pace of evacuations from Afghanistan, U.S. President Joe Biden confronted criticism over the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country. “I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies,” Biden told reporters after making a speech from the White House.…
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Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on Monday urged international powers to boycott US President Donald Trump’s “peace plan” which they see as biased towards Israel. “This a plan to protect Trump from impeachment and protect (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu from prison. It is not a Middle East peace plan,” Shtayyeh told a cabinet meeting.…
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior advisor Jared Kushner is visiting the Middle East this week to seek the support of the long-overdue Middle East peace plan, U.S. media reported on Tuesday. Kushner is leading a U.S. delegation on a trip to several capitals in the region this week, seeking support for the Middle East peace…
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Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Saturday that any move by the United States to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would derail the peace process and fuel extremism. Ahmed’s threat came in response to a Friday report from Reuters which quoted a senior U.S. official as revealing that President Donald Trump will likely…
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The ongoing rift between Qatar and its neighboring gulf states — the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Maldives, Egypt and Bahrain — was blamed on a possible hack from Vladimir Putin’s government but while Russia denied those allegations, Donald Trump takes center stage for inciting a campaign against the tiny landlocked emirate. Image shows Donald…
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