Middle East

Western officials say cutting off Palestine from global banking system would be ‘catastrophic’

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Western officials have warned of an “economic catastrophe” in the occupied West Bank if Israel does not renew a banking waiver vital to the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Financial Times has reported.
Middle East

Israel has killed just 30-35 percent of Hamas fighters in 7 months of Gaza war: US sources

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Only 30 to 35 percent of Hamas fighters have been killed after more than seven months of Israel's military operations against the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip, US intelligence sources told Politico.
Europe

Moscow blasts EU decision to use income from Russian assets

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Moscow has castigated the decision by the EU to use income from frozen Russian sovereign assets to help Ukraine as expropriation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated.
Middle East

PA’s Mahmoud Abbas urges other countries to recognize Palestinian state

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Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has welcomed Ireland, Norway and Spain's decision to recognize a Palestinian state, calling on other countries to follow their lead.
Americas

US says concerned by Israel’s growing diplomatic isolation

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A top White House aide has acknowledged concern about Israel’s potentially growing diplomatic isolation amid its latest spat with several European countries after they moved to recognize a Palestinian state.
Europe

British MPs grill ministers over weapons exports to Israel amid Gaza war

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The British government continues to assess that Israel has the intent to follow international humanitarian law even as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled Gaza's Rafah, but several MPs pressed UK ministers to explain how London could have come to its conclusions.
Foreign Policy

Iran’s Leader meets Iraqi PM, Hamas chief in Tehran

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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei met prime ministers of Iraq and the Hamas chief on the sidelines of the funeral procession of President Ebrahim Raisi and his associates in Tehran on Wednesday.
Middle East

3 European states to recognise Palestinian state

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The leaders of Norway, Ireland and Spain have stated their countries will formally recognise Palestine as a state next week for the sake of “peace in the Middle East“, prompting Israel to immediately recall its envoys.
Europe

Ukraine wants NATO to shoot down Russian missiles

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The US and its allies should shoot down Moscow's missiles, give Kiev more weapons, and allow Ukraine to strike Russia directly, President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the New York Times newspaper.
Asia

China says to continue enhancing strategic partnership with Iran

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Beijing will continue strengthening the strategic partnership with Tehran "regardless of how the situation changes", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told at a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mahdi Safari.
Europe

Russia launches tactical nuclear wargames

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Russia’s Southern Military District has launched the first stage of recently announced tactical nuclear drills, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has confirmed.
Europe

Putin says Russia will continue to boost Iran ties

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed deep sorrow over the martyrdom of his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi, calling it “a great loss”. He stated Tehran and Moscow will continue down the path of the late Iranian president to further boost ties and mutual cooperation.
Americas

US lawmakers urge Biden admin. to allow Ukraine to use American weapons inside Russia

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A bipartisan group of US lawmakers have sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding that he allow Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range weapons to carry out strikes inside Russian territory.
Americas

Republican bill aims to give Americans serving in Israeli military same benefits as US soldiers

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Two Republican congressmen introduced a bill that would provide the same employment and economic protections to Americans serving in the Israeli military as US citizens who get deployed to serve in the US military.
Middle East

UN says halted food shipments to Gaza’s Rafah as supplies run out

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The United Nations (UN) warns it has run out of food supplies in Rafah, the city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip at the center of a possible new Israeli military push.
Europe

EU’s Borrell says member states have to nab Netanyahu if ICC issues arrest warrent

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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has stated that if the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for top Israeli officials over their alleged war crimes in Gaza, all EU member states will be legally forced to oblige.
Middle East

Spokesman: Yemen’s Houthis shoot down US MQ-9 Reaper drone

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The military spokesperson for the Houthi movement says the Yemeni fhighters have shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was conducting hostile activities in the airspace over the central province of Bayda.
Middle East

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian students, teacher, doctor in West Bank raid

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Israeli soldiers killed Palestinian students, a teacher and a doctor, and wounded others, including a journalist, during an assault on Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
Middle East

More than 900k displaced in Gaza over past two weeks

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Over 900,000 people, approximately 40% of Gaza's population, have been displaced in the past two weeks as Israeli bombardment continues across much of the blockaded enclave, United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has stated.
Middle East

Syrian first lady diagnosed with leukemia

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Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the Syrian presidency announced on Tuesday, almost five years after announcing she had fully recovered from breast cancer.
Middle East

Hezbollah chief condoles with Iran Leader over President Raisi martyrdom

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The Secretary-General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has condoled with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei over the martyrdom of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions in a copter crash.
Americas

Biden’s approval over Gaza war gets lowest mark yet in new poll

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The approval rating for US President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has dropped to its lowest point in a new survey, as the fighting continues in the besieged enclave.
Local

Iran’s new Assembly of Experts convenes for 1st biannual meeting

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The Assembly of Experts, a panel of clerics electing Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, convened its first session in Tehran on Tuesday morning.
Americas

US offers condolences to Iran over President Raisi’s demise

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The United States has expressed condolences over the death of President Ebrahim Raisi and his accompanying delegation in a helicopter crash in a mountainous area of Iran's northwest.
Asia

North Korea’s leader sends condolence message to Iran over death of President Raisi

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a condolence message to Tehran over the demise of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, state media KCNA reported.
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