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The United States is seeking to keep more than 1 million rounds of ammunition the US Navy seized in December as it was in transit from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary...
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Wealth funds in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar have invested hundreds of millions of dollars with former US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner's private equity firm, the...
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The Latin Monastery in the Jordanian city of As-Salt held an iftar for orphans, allowing the call to prayer to be recited in the church
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An international arbitration ruling on 23 March prompted the shutdown of Iraq's northern crude oil exports through Turkiye and sent oil prices back towards $80 a barrel, Reuters reports. Iraq, OPEC's second-largest...
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The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, called Thursday on Azerbaijan to reverse its decision to normalise relations with Israel, saying it would come at the expense of the Palestinian people's...
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Reviews
March 31, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
Brendan Ciaran Browne's contribution to the literature on Palestine is not only welcomed, but sharply focused. Veering away from the mainstream discourse that protects the two-state compromise at the...
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The Iraqi parliament's vote in favour of restoring electoral laws that were scrapped after the 2019 anti-government demonstrations has reignited chaos and division among Iraq's politicians, especially Shia parties. On Monday, the...
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Finland has pledged to donate $21.8 million as part of a three-year funding agreement with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The multi-year agreement (MYA),...
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Israel has demolished more than 12,350 Palestinian homes and uprooted more than two million olive trees in the occupied Palestinian territories since 1967, a Palestinian rights group said yesterday. The Israeli...
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The head of the Israeli Liaison Office in Morocco, David Govrin, will reportedly return to Rabat in the coming days to resume his duties, after being recalled last year over allegations of sexual harassment,...
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Once again, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is being subjected to desecration, vandalism and assaults on the worshipers inside it. Last Sunday morning, dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa from the...
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Interviews
March 31, 2023
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Eman Abusidu
Shahla Othman still follows in her father’s footsteps and commemorates Palestine’s Land Day
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A fund to deliver financing to places affected by climate-fuelled disasters should be created by the annual UN climate summit that opens at the end of November, the lead...
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Thousands of extremist Israelis yesterday came out in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan, blocking a highway in Tel Aviv. The protests were organised by Netanyahu's Likud Party and...
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Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Al-Maliki, has welcomed Azerbaijan's decision to open a diplomatic office in Ramallah soon, Anadolu News Agency reports. This came during a meeting he held at...
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Israeli settlers today destroyed and uprooted hundreds of newly planted olive and grape seedlings in the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, reported Wafa news agency. According to local...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded an apology from dismissed Defence Minister Yoav Gallant following the statements he made against the judicial overhaul plan proposed by the premier. On...
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The United Arab Emirates' central bank today said it will cancel the licence it granted last year to Russia's MTS bank, which was placed under British and US sanctions...
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said in a statement that one of their military advisers was killed in an Israeli attack on the Syrian capital Damascus today, Reuters reported...
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Israel's caretaker Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, yesterday warned that Tel Aviv is witnessing "a complex security period" and Iran is waging a war of attrition against it while advancing...
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The international community must take "firm and principled action" to protect the human rights and dignity of Palestinians, a United Nations official said yesterday. "Israeli violence, including the deadly...
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Six US troops in Syria suffered traumatic brain injuries during two attacks last week by Iran-backed militants, the Pentagon said on Thursday, adding they were diagnosed during routine screenings...
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In a partial victory for Iran, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), on Thursday, ruled Washington had illegally allowed courts to freeze assets of Iranian companies and ordered the United States to pay...
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Israel's government is "on a rampage" against human rights, the new head of Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, and urged the United States and other allies to do...
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Blog
March 30, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
At the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Palestinian human rights organisations, Al Haq and Addameer drew attention to the systematic torture of Palestinians prisoners in...
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Lebanon has no alternative for economic recovery but to make progress on a deal with the International Monetary Fund, a senior US official said on Thursday, Reuters reports. US...
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The ancient tradition is revived every Ramadan in an effort to encourage people to wake up and have a the pre-dawn meal, suhoor
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An Israeli court yesterday extended the detention of Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh for 16 months on the pretext that he attempted to smuggle a mobile phone, according to the...
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Senate votes to repeal Iraq war authorizations 20 years after U.S. invasion
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Hundreds of Israelis joined a demonstration calling for democracy, and end to Israel's occupation of Palestinian land and denouncing plans to establish a National Guard under the authority of far-right MK Itamar Ben-Gvir
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Syria's Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned an overnight Israeli missile attack that hit near the capital, Damascus, wounding two soldiers and causing material damage, Reuters reports. Syrian state television,...
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QatarEnergy entered into a farm-in agreement with ExxonMobil Canada for two exploration licenses gas offshore the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, Qatari media reports. According to the...