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Reactions to World Court ruling on Israel war in Gaza
The World Court on Friday ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Hamas in Gaza, and do more to help civilians, but it stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire as requested by South Africa. The following are reactions to the ruling by...
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What does the Red Sea disruption mean for Europe's economy?
Weeks of attacks by the Houthis on vessels in the Red Sea have disrupted shipping in the Suez Canal, the fastest sea route between Asia and Europe carrying 12 per cent of global container traffic For the European economy, already skirting a mild recession as it tries to shake off...
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Battle of Khan Yunis threatens biggest hospital still working in Gaza
Israeli forces advancing into the southern Gaza Strip’s main city pounded areas near the biggest hospital still functioning in the enclave on Thursday, sending patients and residents fleeing a battle they feared would lay the city to waste. The heaviest battle of the year, so far, was under way in...
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FACTBOX - Reaction to South Africa's UN Court case against Israel's war in Gaza
South Africa accused Israel, on Thursday, of subjecting Palestinians to genocidal acts at the opening of hearings at the top UN Court on a case the country brought against the devastating Israeli military campaign in Gaza. Israel says the case is baseless. The following are reactions to the proceedings that began at the International...
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Saudi Arabia: new civil laws aim to boost investment, but caution lingers
For private equity investor Imad Ghandour, changes in Saudi Arabia’s laws are prompting a rethink and his firm may buy, for the first time, minority stakes in the kingdom’s companies, Reuters has reported. It is exactly the effect that the country’s leaders are aiming for as they seek to...
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What is the genocide case against Israel at the top UN court?
The International Court of Justice will hold hearings this week on a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza war and seeking an emergency suspension of its military offensive. The ICJ is also called the World Court; it is the highest UN legal body,...
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Egypt plans expansion of new capital as first residents trickle in
Egypt is preparing to spend billions doubling the size of a lavish new capital it is building in the desert 45 kilometres (28 miles) east of Cairo, where the first residents are trickling in, the head of the company overseeing the project said. The city is the biggest of a...
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With no medical care, Gaza's child amputees risk seeing their limbs rot
Eleven-year-old Noor’s left leg was almost entirely torn off when her home in Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza, was hit by an Israeli bomb in October. Now her right leg, fitted with a heavy metal bar and four screws drilled into the bone, may have to be amputated. “It hurts me...
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What is Egypt's proposal for Gaza?
Egypt has held talks between Hamas and its allied Islamic Jihad to try and broker a permanent ceasefire in Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, which has killed tens of thousands, laid waste to the besieged enclave and displaced more than 80 per cent of the 2.3 million Palestinian...
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Gaza children dizzy from hunger as war impedes food deliveries
The children displaced to south Gaza were craving chicken, but all their mother had left to feed the family for the day was a tin of peas donated by a man who took pity on her when he saw her crying. Left homeless by Israel’s military offensive on the besieged...
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FACTBOX - Shipping firms avoid Red Sea as Houthi attacks increase
Houthis in Yemen have stepped up attacks on vessels in the Red Sea to show their support for Palestinian group, Hamas, fighting Israel in Gaza. The attacks, targeting a route that allows East-West trade, especially of oil, to use the Suez Canal to save the time and expense of circumnavigating Africa,...
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Hamas turns Gaza streets into deadly maze for Israeli troops
The Israeli army’s death toll in Gaza is already almost twice as high as during a ground offensive in 2014, a reflection of how far it has pushed into the enclave and of Hamas’s effective use of guerrilla tactics and an expanded arsenal. Israeli military experts, an Israeli commander and...
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Gazans say they fear a fate worse than bombs: permanent exile
With Israeli bombs pounding the length of the Gaza Strip, Gazans have been squeezed up against the border with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula at the town of Rafah and say they have practically nowhere left to flee. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced from their homes and, as the bombardment comes...
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FACTBOX - Bab Al-Mandab shipping lane becomes target as Israel fights Palestine
Yemen’s Houthis have been targeting vessels in the southern Red Sea and the Bab Al-Mandab Strait in attacks that the group says aim to support the Palestinians as Israel and Palestine wage war. Danish shipping company, Maersk, said on Thursday its ship, “Maersk Gibraltar”, was targeted by a missile while travelling from Oman...
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Palestine keffiyeh scarves - a controversial symbol of solidarity
Across the world, the black-and-white keffiyeh head scarf has become an emblem of solidarity with the Palestinian cause, as war rages between Israel and Palestine in Gaza. It has also become a problem for those wearing it. Supporters of Israel see the chequered scarf as a provocation and a sign...
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EXPLAINER - Why does OPEC oppose the idea of a fossil fuel phase-out at COP28?
Oil producer group OPEC has called on its members and allies to resist any attempts by the COP28 climate summit negotiations to target fossil fuels in its final agreement. The language used in a final deal to describe the future of fossil fuels has become the most contentious issue at the UN summit, hosted...
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FACTBOX - Egypt's presidential election: Who are the candidates?
Egypt will hold a presidential election on 10-12 December, in which Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is set to sweep to a third term in a vote overshadowed by the war in Gaza. The most prominent potential opposition candidate pulled out in October, complaining that dozens of his supporters had been arrested and that...
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Italy's Meloni talks tough on migrants while opening up to foreign workers
Madou Koulibaly is the new face of an old Italy. The 24-year-old, who arrived in the country from Guinea in 2018, is blazing a trail as Tuscany’s first migrant bus driver recruited as part of a drive to fill labour gaps with foreign workers. He was more surprised than anyone. “I...
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Currency, inflation woes in focus as Egypt's Sisi set for third term
In the run-up to Egypt’s 10-12 December presidential election, financially strapped people queue at state-managed cooperatives trying to buy scarce rations of subsidised sugar. It is the latest sign of economic pressures that have risen sharply since early last year, leaving Egyptians grappling with soaring prices and an unresolved foreign...
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Israel informs Arab States it wants buffer zone in post-war Gaza – sources
Israel has informed several Arab states that it wants to carve out a buffer zone on the Palestinian side of Gaza’s border to prevent future attacks as part of proposals for the enclave after war ends, Egyptian and regional sources said. According to three regional sources, Israel related its plans...
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Muslims in Europe feel vulnerable as hostilities rise
Jian Omar, a Berlin lawmaker of Kurdish-Syrian background, feels unprotected by police after suffering hate-filled flyers mixed with glass and faeces, a broken window and a hammer-wielding assailant since 7 October. The three incidents at Omar’s constituency office form part of increased hostility to Muslims in Europe fanned at times...
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FACTBOX - What is the humanitarian situation in besieged Gaza?
A truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has been extended to six days and aid agencies are using the pause in fighting to ramp up aid deliveries into the besieged enclave. Under the terms of the deal, more aid is flowing into Gaza, with the first deliveries shipped to the...
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Boycott campaigns over Gaza war hit Western brands in some Arab countries
Midway through a recent evening in Cairo, a worker cleaned tables in an empty McDonald’s restaurant. Branches of other Western fast-food chains in the Egyptian capital also appeared deserted. All have been hit by a boycott campaign over Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip since the deadly Hamas attack in southern...
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Sudan refugees detail second wave of ethnic purge by RSF militia
Earlier this year, Arab forces waged a campaign of killing and rape that expelled most of the ethnic-African Masalit tribe from the Sudanese city of El Geneina. This month, they returned to finish the job. In early November, fighters led by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) sought out members...