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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday (Mar 18) said that a wave of deadly overnight strikes on Gaza was “only the beginning” of Israeli action in the Palestinian territory. “Hamas has already felt the strength of our arm in the past 24 hours. And I want to promise you – and them – this is…
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Qatar said on Tuesday it delivered an Israeli proposal to Hamas that reflected the positions stated by U.S. President Joe Biden, adding that the paper was now much closer to the positions of both sides. Qatar, which has been mediating on Gaza between Israel and Hamas, also stressed that there should be a clear position…
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Israel has recalled its negotiators from Doha after deeming mediated talks on a Gaza truce “at a dead end” due to demands by Hamas, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday. The official, who is close to the Mossad spymaster heading up the talks, accused Hamas’ Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar of sabotaging the diplomacy “as…
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Amid her advocacy to end bombardment of Gaza, the UN special rapporteur on occupied Palestinian territories has said she is facing “continuous defamation” of her mandate. “Yet another trail of egregiously false claims agst (against) me. My trip to Australia was paid by the UN as part of my mandate’s activities,” Francesca Albanese wrote on…
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A new Cabinet has been announced in crisis-hit Lebanon, breaking a months-long impasse amid ongoing mass protests against the country’s ruling elite, ITV reports. University professor Hassan Diab has been chosen to head a Cabinet of 20 members, three months after former prime minister Saad Hariri resigned The country is buckling under a crippling economic and financial crisis…
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China is reportedly confused by the Trump administration’s version of what happened in Buenos Aires. After the key meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, officials from Beijing are “puzzled and irritated” by the Trump administration’s behavior, The Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing a former U.S. government official who has been in contact with…
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