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August 11, 2026

Palestinian president restores parliament to 132 seats, reverses expansion

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday issued a decree restoring the number of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council (parliament) to 132, reversing a law enacted in June that...

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August 11, 2026

Qatar says Iran-Oman Hormuz talks reached ‘advanced stage,’ urges reopening

Qatar said Tuesday that negotiations between Iran and Oman on arrangements for the Strait of Hormuz have reached “an advanced stage,” expressing hope the strategic waterway will reopen “as...

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August 11, 2026

Condi Rice and the belated “birth pangs of a new Middle East”

Twenty years ago, as Israeli bombs pulverised Lebanon, Condoleezza Rice surveyed the carnage with the serene vocabulary peculiar to imperial officials who experience other people’s funerals as geopolitical opportunity....

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August 11, 2026

Israeli premier seeks reserved party spots for defense, interior ministers in upcoming elections

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he intends to seek approval for reserved spots on the Likud party list for Defense Minister Israel Katz, Foreign Minister Gideon...

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August 11, 2026

Syrians celebrate death sentences for Bashar Assad, former regime officials

Syrians gathered outside the Palace of Justice in Damascus on Tuesday, to celebrate death sentences issued against ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his brother as well as other...

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August 11, 2026

Egyptian army says it foiled cross-border arms smuggling network

The Egyptian army said Tuesday that its forces had dismantled a cross-border organised crime network involved in smuggling and trafficking weapons and ammunition through the country’s southern frontier, Anadolu...

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August 11, 2026

Saudi Arabia condemns Colombia’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Syria’s occupied Golan Heights

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned Colombia’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, calling the move a violation of international law and relevant UN resolutions, Anadolu...

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August 11, 2026

The Israel ties Indonesia’s Bogor Agricultural University once had

Inside a greenhouse in Bogor, an Indonesian student watched an Israeli engineer explain how to make water disappear into soil, drop by drop. No one in the room thought...

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August 11, 2026

The Mecca Pact: From a security umbrella to an energy corridor

The Mecca defence pact between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan is, at first glance, a security development. Yet its longer-term significance may emerge in a sphere that extends well...

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August 11, 2026

Israeli army blows up Palestinian man’s home weeks after his killing

Less than three weeks after Palestinian man Farouk Ramadan was killed while confronting Israeli occupiers, the Israeli army blew up his house in the West Bank town of Tal, Anadolu reports....

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