A historic boat parade down the River Seine launched the Paris Olympics with spectacular French flair Friday, as the City of Light welcomed the world’s greatest athletes for a sporting extravaganza. Braving torrential rain, some 300,000 people lined the river banks to cheer on the armada carrying competitors past the city’s iconic sights: the Eiffel […]
The Libyans were arrested at a farm in Mpumalanga province east of Johannesburg [Getty] South African authorities rounded up 95 Libyans on Friday in a raid at a farm that appeared to have been converted into an illegal military training base, police said. The morning raid was in a remote area outside the town of
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Hezbollah and Israel have been clashing for months on the Lebanese border [Getty] An Israeli military commander said Friday that troops in the country’s north were preparing for “a decisive offensive” against Lebanon’s Hezbollah after months of deadly cross-border exchanges. Israeli forces have traded near-daily fire with Hamas ally Hezbollah since the Gaza war began
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Veteran diplomat Martin S. Indyk, an author and leader at prominent U.S. think tanks who devoted years to finding a path toward peace in the Middle East, died Thursday. He was 73. His wife, Gahl Hodges Burt, confirmed in a phone call that he died from complications of esophageal cancer at the couple’s home in
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This week on The New Arab Weekly podcast, we discuss the recent findings from an investigation by the International Court of Justice into Israel’s occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and apartheid regime, the Houthi drone attack that hit Tel Aviv and the Israeli response on the Yemeni port of Hodeida, and Israeli Prime Minister
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The United States is deferring the removal of certain Lebanese citizens from the country, President Joe Biden said on Friday, citing humanitarian conditions in southern Lebanon amid tensions between Israel and Hezbollah. The deferred designation, which lasts 18 months, allows Lebanese citizens to remain in the country with the right to work, according to a
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“But I am not a stranger among my people,” said President Saied in his speech on Thursday, 25 July. [Getty] On Wednesday, 24 July, Tunisian President Kais Saied decided to “pardon” his critics jailed on the anniversary of his self-coup, and just two months before a pivotal presidential election. He also strangely spoke of a
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The explosive device tore apart a car in the north of Moscow, injuring two people [Getty] A Russian man suspected of carrying out a car bombing that wounded two people in Moscow has been extradited from Turkey, the interior ministry said Friday. Evgeny Serebryakov, born in 1995, was detained in the Turkish city of Bodrum
In the past nine months, Israel has killed at least 350 athletes, including 250 footballers, writes Abubaker Abed [photo credit: Getty Images] It’s natural that Gaza, a place where life can be taken away in an instant, lived and breathed sport. It was our lifeline. Under a 17-year blockade and continuous Israeli bombardment, it was
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Mali has been unsettled by violence by militant and criminal groups since 2012 [Getty/archive] Mali troops and their Russian allies on Thursday battled separatist rebels near the border with Algeria, a spokesman for the rebels and a witness told AFP. The junta that took power in 2020 has made a priority of securing all of
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