Iran’s conservatives and ultra-conservatives clinched more seats in a partial rerun of the country’s parliamentary elections, official results showed Saturday, tightening their hold on the chamber. Voters had been called to cast ballots again on Friday in regions where candidates failed to gain enough votes in the March 1 election, which saw the lowest turnout […]
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More than 300 people were killed in flash floods that ripped through multiple Afghan provinces, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Saturday, as authorities declared a state of emergency and rushed to rescue the injured. Heavy rains on Friday sent roaring rivers of water and mud crashing through villages and across agricultural land in
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Negotiations between Hamas and Israel are unlikely to lead to an agreement for a ceasefire in Gaza as Israel presses its offensive in Rafah, Dr. Azmi Bishara has said in a new apppearance on Araby TV aired Friday night, describing the possibility of this happening as resembling “squaring the circle”. In the new interview discussing
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Staff and patients at Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital were forced to evacuate this week after threat’s of attacks from the Israeli military [GETTY] Health services in Gaza are under intense strain as Israel’s seventh-month-long offensive took a new turn this week with the invasion of the southern Rafah governorate, a vital humanitarian hub and centre for thousands
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Arizona State University has dismissed a scholar for verbally attacking woman in hijab [Getty] Arizona State University (ASU) announced that a postdoctoral research scholar would no longer be teaching at the university after a video of him verbally assaulting a woman in a hijab went viral. In a statement released on Thursday, ASU President Michael
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The UN General Assembly was expected to vote on Friday to grant Palestine rights and reviving its UN membership bid [UN] The UN General Assembly voted by a wide margin on Friday to grant Palestine new “rights and privileges” and called on the Security Council to favourably reconsider its request to become the 194th member
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Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela arrives for the opening of the exhibition “Mandela: The Official Exhibition” at Bikini Berlin shopping mall on October 18, 2019 in Berlin, Germany [Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images] The grandson of famed South African president Nelson Mandela has criticised the UK Labour Party’s shadow secretary David Lammy for stating that his grandfather would
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Blinken’s report is expected to critique Israel, but fails to say it is violating US’ weapons terms [GETTY] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to submit a report to Congress as soon as Friday on Israel’s war on Gaza that stops short of concluding it has violated the terms for its use of US weapons, Axios said on
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During the interview with Dr Phil, Netanyahu said that Israel would continue its operations in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah [Getty] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under fire for conducting an interview with Dr Phil while seemingly ducking interviews to the Israeli press. In the interview, Netanyahu also admitted his government failed to
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The wife of a detained Egyptian journalist has raised concerns over his condition [Getty] The wife of a detained Egyptian journalist has raised the alarm about the media worker’s life-threatening heart condition and called on Egypt’s media union to lobby for his release. Iman Mahrous, the wife of Ahmed Subai, wrote a passionate plea on
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