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Top US diplomat Antony Blinken to head to UK for talks on Gaza

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will head to London next week to discuss the Middle East and Ukraine, the State Department announced Saturday, ahead of a US visit by Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Blinken’s visit to London on Monday and Tuesday will be the senior-most by a US official since Starmer’s Labour Party won […]

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Iran transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia

Iran’s medium-range ballistic missile called Hayber during a test launch in 2023 [Photo by Iranian Defense Ministry / Hanodut/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images] The United States has informed allies that it believes Iran has transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine,  according to two people familiar with the matter. They did not

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Dozens killed in Gaza as war enters 12th month

The family of a Turkish-American woman shot dead while demonstrating against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank demanded an independent investigation into her death on Saturday, accusing the Israeli military of killing her “violently”. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was “shot in the head” while participating in a demonstration in Beita in the West Bank

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Lebanon says Israeli attack kills 3 emergency workers

Lebanon’s health ministry said three emergency personnel were killed and two wounded in an Israeli attack Saturday on a civil defence team that had been fighting fires in the country’s south. “Israeli enemy targeting of a Lebanese civil defence team that was putting out fires sparked by the recent Israeli strikes in the village of

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Gaza couple’s wedding brings joy to displaced people at school

A Palestinian couple has tied the knot at a school housing refugees in the Nuseirat camp near Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Friday, as displaced people sang and celebrated, the Anadolu news agency reported. Groom Mohammed Radi and bride Hanan Abu Tarboush ignored relentless Israeli attacks for a day and insisted on

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Israeli forces mutilate boy after killing him in West Bank

Israeli forces horrifically mutilated the body of a teenage Palestinian boy after killing him in the West Bank town of Tubas, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) said in a statement on Friday. A graphic video shared widely on social media showed an Israeli bulldozer cutting up and moving the body of 17-year-old Majed

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Turkey’s Erdogan calls for Islamic alliance against Israel

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the 21st Imam Hatip Alumni Congress at the Kocaeli Congress Center in Kocaeli, Turkiye on September 07, 2024. (Photo by Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Anadolu via Getty Images) Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called “the growing threat of expansionism”

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Iraq’s Kurdish authorities extradite activist to Iran: group

An Iranian Kurdish activist was extradited from Iraq‘s autonomous Kurdish region back to Iran, the opposition group he belongs to said on Saturday, an account disputed by local authorities. Behzad Khosrawi was arrested last week by security forces in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah and handed over to “Iranian intelligence”, said the Kurdish Democratic Party

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Family demands independent probe into Israel killing of American

The family of a Turkish-American woman shot dead while demonstrating against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank demanded an independent investigation into her death on Saturday, accusing the Israeli military of killing her “violently”. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was “shot in the head” while participating in a demonstration in Beita in the West Bank

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