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Tunisia leader shows Trump adviser images of starving Gaza children

Tunisia leader shows Trump adviser images of starving Gaza children

Tunisian President Kais Saied presented US counterpart Donald Trump's senior Africa adviser with photographs of starving children in Gaza, official...

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AFP journalist covers war as Gaza faces extreme shortages

AFP journalist covers war as Gaza faces extreme shortages

With fuel prices exorbitant and road travel treacherous in the war-battered Gaza Strip, AFP video journalist Youssef Hassouna has to walk for hours in...

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France's culture minister to be tried on corruption charges

France's culture minister to be tried on corruption charges

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati is to go on trial accused of corruption and abuse of power while she was a member of European Parliament, a...

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Hungry and exhausted, AFP journalists document Gaza war

Hungry and exhausted, AFP journalists document Gaza war

AFP journalists in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday that chronic food shortages are affecting their ability to cover Israel's conflict with Hamas...

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France's top diplomat calls for foreign press access to Gaza

France's top diplomat calls for foreign press access to Gaza

France's foreign minister urged Israel on Tuesday to allow international journalists into the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza to "bear witness"...

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Amnesty urges probe into Israeli strike on Tehran prison

Amnesty urges probe into Israeli strike on Tehran prison

Amnesty International on Tuesday called for a war crimes investigation into Israel's deadly air attack on Tehran's Evin prison during last month's...

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Egypt legal reform raises fears over right to fair trial

Egypt legal reform raises fears over right to fair trial

Egypt is poised to adopt a new law aimed at overhauling the judicial process, but human rights groups warn it could entrench long-standing abuses...

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Western nations call for immediate end to Gaza war as Israel expands offensive

Western nations call for immediate end to Gaza war as Israel expands offensive

The World Health Organization said Monday its facilities in Gaza had come under Israeli attack, echoing calls from Western countries for an immediate...

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Fears of escalation after Israel hits Huthi-held Yemen port

Fears of escalation after Israel hits Huthi-held Yemen port

Israel pounded Yemen's Huthi-held port of Hodeida with air strikes on Monday for the second time in a month, stoking fears of escalation as it warned...

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In Syria's Sweida, bodies wait to be identified at overwhelmed hospital

In Syria's Sweida, bodies wait to be identified at overwhelmed hospital

At the main hospital in south Syria's Sweida city, dozens of bodies are still waiting to be identified as the death count of days of sectarian clashes...

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Syrian authorities evacuate Bedouin families from Sweida city

Syrian authorities evacuate Bedouin families from Sweida city

Syrian authorities on Monday evacuated Bedouin families from the Druze-majority city of Sweida, after a ceasefire in the southern province halted...

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Libya commander Haftar seeks to force international engagement

Libya commander Haftar seeks to force international engagement

Libya's eastern authorities recently expelled a senior European delegation in a move analysts say was meant to send a message: the unrecognised...

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Malnutrition reaches new heights in Gaza, children most affected

Malnutrition reaches new heights in Gaza, children most affected

As malnutrition surges in war-torn Gaza, tens of thousands of children and women require urgent treatment, according to the UN, while aid enters the...

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Sudan PM vows to rebuild Khartoum on first visit to war-torn capital

Sudan PM vows to rebuild Khartoum on first visit to war-torn capital

Sudan's Prime Minister Kamil Idris on Saturday pledged to rebuild Khartoum on his first visit to the capital, ravaged by more than two years of war,...

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Syrians protest Sweida killings in London, Paris

Syrians protest Sweida killings in London, Paris

Dozens of Syrians from minority communities rallied on Saturday in London and Paris, calling for action to protect the Druze in their Sweida...

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Sudan PM vows to rebuild Khartoum on first visit to war-torn capital

Sudan PM vows to rebuild Khartoum on first visit to war-torn capital

Sudan's Prime Minister Kamil Idris on Saturday pledged to rebuild Khartoum, ravaged by more than two years of war, as he made his first visit to the...

20.07.2025 3

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Clashes, homes torched in south Syria's Sweida despite ceasefire

Clashes, homes torched in south Syria's Sweida despite ceasefire

Smoke rose from burning houses in south Syria's Sweida on Saturday and an Arab tribal fighter vowed to "slaughter" residents as deadly clashes with...

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'Mass grave': Medics appeal for aid at last working hospital in Syria's Sweida

'Mass grave': Medics appeal for aid at last working hospital in Syria's Sweida

In the last barely-functional hospital in Sweida, bodies are overflowing from the morgue, staff said, amid violence that has wracked the...

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Sharaa's pullout from Syria Druze heartland exposes shaky leadership

Sharaa's pullout from Syria Druze heartland exposes shaky leadership

Under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure, Ahmed al-Sharaa pulled troops from Syria's Druze heartland -- a move that exposes the interim...

19.07.2025 4

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Syria tribes clash with Druze fighters near Sweida: combatants, monitor

Syria tribes clash with Druze fighters near Sweida: combatants, monitor

Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters outside Sweida Friday a day after government troops withdrew...

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Gulf Air orders 12 Boeing 787 Dreamliners

Gulf Air orders 12 Boeing 787 Dreamliners

US aviation giant Boeing on Thursday signed a contract worth billions of dollars to sell 12 787 Dreamliners, with options for six more, to Gulf Air,...

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'Like a dream': Druze reunited across Golan Heights buffer zone

'Like a dream': Druze reunited across Golan Heights buffer zone

Dozens of Druze crowded the Israeli-controlled side of the armistice line in the occupied Golan Heights on Thursday, hoping to catch a glimpse of...

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Slovenia bars two far-right Israeli ministers

Slovenia bars two far-right Israeli ministers

Slovenia announced on Thursday that it would ban two far-right Israeli ministers from entering in what authorities said was a first in the European...

18.07.2025 3

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrator arrested at Tour de France

Pro-Palestinian demonstrator arrested at Tour de France

A protestor wearing a t-shirt reading "Israel out of the Tour" was arrested on Wednesday after running onto the final straight of the Tour de France...

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Syrians terrified as violence grips Druze-majority city of Sweida

Syrians terrified as violence grips Druze-majority city of Sweida

In Syria's Druze-majority city of Sweida, residents said they have been living in terror since the arrival of government forces who have been carrying...

17.07.2025 3

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UN expert on Palestinians says US sanctions are a 'violation' of immunity

UN expert on Palestinians says US sanctions are a 'violation' of immunity

The UN's unflinching expert on Palestinian affairs Francesca Albanese said Tuesday that Washington's sanctions following her criticism of the White...

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Syrian Druze say govt mission of peace devolved into rampage

Syrian Druze say govt mission of peace devolved into rampage

The mainly Druze residents of the Syrian city of Sweida had hoped the arrival of government forces on Tuesday would spell an end to deadly sectarian...

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Trump envoy demands Israel action on killing of American

Trump envoy demands Israel action on killing of American

The US ambassador to Israel on Tuesday demanded an aggressive investigation and consequences after settlers beat to death a Palestinian-American, in...

17.07.2025 3

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Who are the Middle East's Druze minority?

Who are the Middle East's Druze minority?

The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, who for centuries have sought to...

16.07.2025 3

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Syrian forces enter Druze city after deadly clashes

Syrian forces enter Druze city after deadly clashes

Syrian authorities were accused on Tuesday of carrying out summary executions of civilians in the predominantly Druze province of Sweida, where Israel...

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Syria deploys forces after dozens killed in Bedouin-Druze clashes

Syria deploys forces after dozens killed in Bedouin-Druze clashes

Syrian government forces were advancing towards the southern city of Sweida on Monday to quell deadly clashes between Druze fighters and Bedouin...

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Police arrest scores more Palestine Action supporters

Police arrest scores more Palestine Action supporters

Police in several British cities on Saturday arrested scores of people for supporting Palestine Action, following a second consecutive weekend of...

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Police arrest more Palestine Action supporters

Police arrest more Palestine Action supporters

Police in several British cities on Saturday arrested scores of people for supporting Palestine Action, following a second consecutive weekend of...

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Agence France-Presse

MSF warns acute malnutrition soaring in Gaza

MSF warns acute malnutrition soaring in Gaza

Doctors Without Borders warned Friday that its teams on the ground in Gaza were witnessing surging levels of acute malnutrition in the besieged and...

12.07.2025 5

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Gaza civil defence says Israeli forces kill 18

Gaza civil defence says Israeli forces kill 18

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 30 people on Friday, including 10 who were waiting for aid in the south of the...

12.07.2025 6

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800 killed in Gaza since May 27 trying to get aid: UN

800 killed in Gaza since May 27 trying to get aid: UN

Nearly 800 people have died trying to access aid in Gaza since late May, with most killed near the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian...

12.07.2025 4

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Gaza civil defence says Israeli strikes kill seven

Gaza civil defence says Israeli strikes kill seven

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 30 people on Friday, including 10 who were waiting for aid in the south of the...

12.07.2025 3

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Nobel laureate Mohammadi says Iran issuing death threats

Nobel laureate Mohammadi says Iran issuing death threats

Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, who won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for women's and human rights in Iran, has received death threats...

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Gaza civil defence says Israeli strike kills children at clinic

Gaza civil defence says Israeli strike kills children at clinic

Gaza's civil defence agency said eight children -- killed as they queued for nutritional supplements outside a health clinic -- were among 66 people...

12.07.2025 3

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Iran threats in UK 'significantly increased': Intel watchdog

Iran threats in UK 'significantly increased': Intel watchdog

A UK parliamentary committee on Thursday blamed Iran for at least 15 attempts to kill or kidnap British-based individuals since 2022, saying the...

11.07.2025 4

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US sanctions UN rights expert for Palestinian territories

US sanctions UN rights expert for Palestinian territories

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced Washington was sanctioning the United Nations special expert on the Palestinian territories,...

11.07.2025 3

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Agence France-Presse

Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity

Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity

More than 30 percent of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region now has 24-hour state electricity, authorities said Thursday, with plans to extend full...

10.07.2025 5

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Netanyahu says reaffirmed hostages release, Hamas defeat in Trump talks

Netanyahu says reaffirmed hostages release, Hamas defeat in Trump talks

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he discussed efforts to release hostages held in Gaza and the ongoing military campaign to defeat Hamas...

10.07.2025 4

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Five Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza combat

Five Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza combat

Five Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip, the military said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest days for Israeli forces in the...

09.07.2025 3

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3 dead in north Lebanon strike that Israel says hit Hamas militant

3 dead in north Lebanon strike that Israel says hit Hamas militant

Lebanon said three people were killed Tuesday in a strike near Tripoli that the Israeli military said targeted a Hamas militant, the first on the...

09.07.2025 3

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United Airlines to resume US service to Tel Aviv

United Airlines to resume US service to Tel Aviv

United Airlines said Tuesday it would resume service between Tel Aviv and its Newark/New York hub on July 21, 10 days earlier than previously planned....

09.07.2025 7

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Four dead in fire at major Cairo telecomms hub, internet disrupted

Four dead in fire at major Cairo telecomms hub, internet disrupted

At least four people were killed and 27 injured in a fire at a major telecomms centre in Egypt's capital that caused widespread disruptions, the...

09.07.2025 3

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Gaza civil defence says 29 killed in Israeli strikes

Gaza civil defence says 29 killed in Israeli strikes

Gaza's civil defence agency on Tuesday said that 29 people were killed in Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory devastated by 21 months of...

09.07.2025 4

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US revoking 'terrorist' designation for Syria's HTS

The United States on Monday announced it was revoking its "foreign terrorist organization" designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a group once...

08.07.2025 4

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Erdogan, pro-Kurdish MPs meet in 'new phase' of rapprochement

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish DEM party Monday to discuss the next steps after PKK militants agreed to end...

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