As violence spikes, the killing of an unarmed Palestinian mother highlights awful toll of occupation
Sabateen, a 47-year-old widow, mother of six and math teacher, died from her wounds after being shot in the legs by Israeli forces near a...
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Israel, West Bank on edge as three deaths in separate incidents highlight sky-high tensions
In the first incident, on Sunday morning, a 47-year-old woman was shot as she approached a checkpoint near the West Bank village of Husan. The...
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How a political shakeup in Yemen risks prolonging its war
Both the president, who had been in power for a decade, and his vice president, who was also removed, were fiercely opposed by the Iran-backed...
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Tel Aviv shooting: Two killed, many injured in Tel Aviv shooting
The suspected gunman was killed by security forces following a manhunt, according to a statement from Israel’s General Security Service on Friday morning. “At the...
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Zarifa Ghafari: ‘The Taliban cannot erase us’
In 2018, at the tender age of 24 (though she admits she pretended to be two years older in order to qualify) Ghafari was appointed...
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Saudi-led coalition and Houthis agree on truce in Yemen, raising hopes for the ‘start of a better future’
The last coordinated cessation of hostilities nationwide was during peace talks in 2016. UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the truce, which he said has “fueled...
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What one meeting in Israel says about a changing world order
Attended by Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken,...
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Iran: Detainee with triple nationality who was released as part of deal with UK is sent back to jail
Morad Tahbaz, who is also a US citizen, spent 48 hours “under house arrest” with an ankle bracelet before being taken back to prison, according...
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Syrians watch in horror as Putin deploys Aleppo playbook in Ukraine
“No one can understand Ukrainians,” Hamdo told CNN. “No one in the world can understand them more than Syrians.” For English teacher Hamdo, watching Russia’s...
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British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Radcliffe freed after six years' detention in Iran, UK lawmaker says
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker who has been held in Iran for almost six years, has been released and is “on her way home,”...
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Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day, in the biggest mass execution in decades
The number dwarfed the 67 executions reported in the kingdom in all of 2021 and the 27 in 2020. “These individuals, totaling 81, were convicted...
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Could Middle East nations come to the rescue as the Ukraine war drives up oil prices?
OPEC+ is a group of 23 oil producing countries, including Russia, that coordinates oil policies which have a role in determining prices on the market....