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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Washington has not asked Tehran to halt uranium enrichment, directly contradicting repeated public statements by senior US officials who insist that Iran must abandon the activity entirely. In an interview published online Friday by MSNBC’s Morning Joe program, Araghchi stated that neither......
FIFA has promised to spend $50 million on a new national soccer stadium in the Gaza Strip, unveiling the plan at the first meeting of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Washington as part of a broader reconstruction drive for the war‑devastated territory. The commitment comes as international institutions estimate that roughly......
Egypt and Israel are locked in a sharpening regional contest centered on Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa, as Cairo expands its military footprint in the country in response to Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland. An assessment by the Hebrew-language outlet Natsiv Net, shared by regional media, argues that......
Norway has reaffirmed that it will not join U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, even as it prepares to host a key international donor meeting on Palestinian aid in the spring. Oslo’s position directly contradicts Trump’s recent claim that Norway had agreed to host an event for the new initiative, which is formally......
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Iran that any direct attack on Israel would trigger a response of a scale Tehran “cannot even imagine,” as coordinated military preparations with the United States intensify across the Middle East. Speaking at an Israel Defense Forces officers’ graduation ceremony, Netanyahu......
A radical Israeli settler movement known as the “Hilltop Youth” has claimed responsibility for dozens of violent incidents targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to a statement circulated on its Telegram channel. The group described the attacks as part of what it called a “campaign against the Arab enemy.” The......
Hamdan Ballal, co director of the Oscar winning documentary “No Other Land,” said Sunday that members of his family were attacked in the occupied West Bank despite a recent Israeli court order intended to keep non residents away from their home area. Ballal said the assault took place in the village of Susya, two weeks after a......
Foreign ministers gathered Wednesday at the United Nations for a Security Council ministerial session on the situation in Palestine, as international pressure mounts over recent Israeli measures expanding control in the occupied West Bank. The meeting, chaired by British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper in her capacity as president of the......
More than 80 figures from the international film community, including Oscar winning actors Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton, have signed an open letter condemning what they describe as the Berlin International Film Festival’s institutional silence on the war in Gaza and the alleged censorship of artists who have spoken out against Israel’s......
Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Türkiye have denounced Israel’s decision to designate large areas of the occupied West Bank as state land and to initiate comprehensive land registration there for the first time since 1967. In a joint statement, the ministers......
The 76th Berlin International Film Festival has been shaken by controversy after jury president Wim Wenders said filmmakers should “stay out of politics,” prompting public withdrawals and sharp responses over the festival’s stance on Gaza. The latest intervention came on February 15, when Turkish director Emin Alper used......
What began as a discreet race for influence between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi has evolved into an overt strategic rivalry that is reshaping regional balances without a shot being fired, yet at a potentially high long term cost for both sides. For general readers, policy analysts and investors following Gulf politics and economics, the emerging......
Global equity markets advanced on Monday as investors looked past weekend geopolitical headlines and turned their focus to high stakes nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran scheduled for Tuesday in Geneva, along with a busy week of corporate earnings led by major retail and agricultural companies. The pan European Stoxx......
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