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No one expelling anyone from Gaza: Trump

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Amid row over his 'Gaza Plan', US President Donald Trump asserted that no one would be "expelled" from the besieged Strip.
Middle East

Over 800 extrajudicial killings documented in Syria violence: Report

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The recent surge in violence in coastal Syria has resulted in more than 800 extrajudicial killings, a war monitor has announced in a new report.
Middle East

Canada announces plan to ease sanctions on Syria

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Ottawa has announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria as the interim government in Damascus seeks international support.
Middle East

Israel frees four Lebanese captives, agrees to join border negotiations

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Lebanon announced it has received four hostages taken by Israel during its war with Hezbollah, as Tel Aviv said it has agreed to engage in talks to demarcate its border with Lebanon.
Middle East

At least 137 Gazans killed in Israeli attacks since start of ceasefire

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At least 137 Palestinians have been killed since a ceasefire  took effect in Gaza in January, local authorities have announced.
Americas

US threatens to slash federal funding to 60 universities

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The US Department of Education (DOE) has sent letters to 60 universities, warning them of "potential enforcement actions" if they fail to "protect" Jewish students on campus.
Middle East

Israeli troops kill at least four people in West Bank

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Israeli soldiers have killed at least four Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced.
Middle East

‘Entire families’ killed in Syria fighting: UN

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Entire families including women and children have been killed in Syria’s coastal region as part of recent sectarian killings by rival groups, the UN human rights office has announced.
Middle East

Gaza war behind record high US anti-Muslim incidents: Report

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Discrimination and attacks against American Muslims and Arabs rose by 7.4% in 2024 due to heightened Islamophobia caused by U.S. ally Israel's war in Gaza and the resulting college campus protests, according to a report by a Muslim advocacy group on Tuesday.
Middle East

Negotiations only way to save Israeli captives’ lives: Hamas

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The Palestinian movement Hamas stressed that Israel’s threats to restart war on the Gaza Strip are futile, saying ceasefire talks are the only way for Tel Aviv to save the lives of its captives.
Middle East

Gaza hospital head recounts torture and isolation in Israeli detention center

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Testimony from the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip paints a brutal picture of Israeli detention, including accounts of torture, starvation and the poor conditions prisoners are forced to endure.
Middle East

UNRWA chief warns of ‘deepening hunger’ in Gaza as Israel blocks aid

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Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has warned that the situation in the Gaza Strip is “deteriorating very, very quickly”, more than a week after Israel again halted all supplies from entering the besieged enclave.
Middle East

Syria new rulers announce end of military operation against Assad loyalists

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Syria’s new rulers have ended a security operation in the country’s western coastal region, home to loyalists of former leader Bashar al-Assad, the Ministry of Defence in Damascus has reported.
Middle East

Kurds to merge with Syrian state institutions in landmark agreement

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Syria’s interim government announced it has reached a landmark deal with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to integrate the group into state institutions.
Middle East

US arrests pro-Gaza student leader at Columbia University

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United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) have detained a Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in last year’s pro-Palestinian protests at New York’s Columbia University, the student workers’ union has announced.
Middle East

Israel cuts off electricity to Gaza

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Israel’s Energy Minister Eli Cohen has ordered an immediate halt to electricity supply to the Gaza Strip, threatening the functioning of the blockaded enclave’s desalination plants amid an ongoing aid shortage in the holy month of Ramadan.
Middle East

Syria’s new rulers launch probe into deadly clashes, vows accountability

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Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has ordered an investigation after hundreds of people were killed in fighting between security forces and fighters loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad in the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous.
Middle East

2 Gazans killed, several injured by Israeli military fire despite ceasefire

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Two Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in Israeli artillery shelling in the Gaza Strip on Sunday despite a ceasefire accord between Tel Aviv and Hamas, medics confirmed.
Middle East

US ends Iraq’s waiver to buy Iranian electricity

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The administration of US President Donald Trump rescinded a waiver that had allowed Iraq to pay Iran for electricity, as part of Washington's "maximum pressure" campaign against Tehran, a State Department spokesperson has stated.
Middle East

Israel, Hamas signal readiness for next ceasefire negotiations

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Israel and Hamas have signaled they are preparing for the next phase of ceasefire talks, as mediators pushed ahead with talks to extend the fragile 42-day truce in the Gaza Strip that began in January.
Middle East

1 killed, another injured in Israeli air strike on southern Lebanon despite ceasefire

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Despite an ongoing ceasefire, an Israeli air strike on Lebanon killed one person and injured another in a vehicle in the southern city of Bint Jbeil on Saturday, according to official media reports.
Middle East

Hundreds killed as Syria forces battle Assad loyalists

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Intense battles between Syrian transitional government troops and fighters loyal to removed leader Basher al-Assad continue in northwestern Syria. Hundreds of people, including civilians, have been reportedLy killed in the deadliest violence since Assad’s fall last year.
Middle East

European states welcome Arab League’s plan for reconstruction of Gaza

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The UK, France, Italy, and Germany have welcomed the Arab League's reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip.
Middle East

Israel repeating Gaza scenario in West Bank: UN

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A high-ranking United Nations human rights official warns that Tel Aviv has turned the West Bank into the scene of the atrocities that it has been committing as part of its war against the Gaza Strip.
Middle East

3 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on southern Gaza despite ceasefire

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Three Palestinians were killed and seven others injured in Israeli air attacks targeting southern and northern Gaza Strip, according to medical sources on Saturday.
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