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Baby Anas, rescued from Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital, feels warmth of mother's embrace
At first, the young mother could not find her new born son, Anas, among the 31 tiny babies who had just arrived in southern Gaza after being evacuated from Gaza City’s devastated Al Shifa Hospital. She had not seen him for 45 days. I was losing hope to see my...
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Why calls for oil embargo on Israel are unlikely to go anywhere
Israel’s military offensive in Gaza that followed a 7 October attack by the enclave’s ruling group, Hamas, has raised calls in the Middle East, particularly from OPEC member, Iran, for using oil as a weapon to punish Israel. The conflict has led many analysts, oil market watchers and politicians to...
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Premature Gaza babies evacuated to Egypt; 12 reported killed at Indonesian Hospital
A group of 28 prematurely born babies evacuated from Gaza’s biggest hospital were taken into Egypt for urgent treatment on Monday, while Palestinian authorities and the WHO said 12 people were killed at another Gaza hospital encircled by Israeli tanks. The newborns had been in north Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital, where several others died...
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Forever war? Israel risks a long, bloody insurgency in Gaza
Israel risks facing a long and bloody insurgency if it defeats Hamas and occupies Gaza without a credible post-war plan to withdraw its troops and move toward the creation of a Palestinian State, US and Arab officials, diplomats and analysts said. None of the ideas floated so far by Israel,...
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Migrant children treated like adults as record numbers arrive in Canary Islands
Orphaned during a coup in his homeland Guinea, teenager Moussa Camara took to sea in a wooden boat with 240 other migrants, enduring an 11-day voyage, half of it without food and fresh water, before reaching the Canary Islands. Twenty people died en route, their bodies dropped in the sea,...
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Egypt's stumbling economy faces new pressures from Gaza crisis
Egypt’s struggling economy faces new risks as the war in the neighbouring Gaza Strip threatens to disrupt tourism bookings and natural gas imports. Oil-rich Gulf countries, which repeatedly propped up Egypt’s finances with deposits over the past decade, had recently shifted to seeking profitable investments instead. Now they may step...
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Hezbollah's anti-ship missiles bolster its threat to US navy
Powerful Russian anti-ship missiles acquired by Hezbollah give it the means to deliver on its leader’s veiled threat against US warships and underline the grave risks of any regional war, sources familiar with the group’s arsenal say. Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, warned Washington last week his group had something in store for the US vessels deployed...
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Arabs see US as complicit in Israel's Gaza war - former Jordan envoy, Muasher
Arabs see the United States as complicit in Israel’s war on Gaza for refusing to enforce a ceasefire until Hamas is crushed, an outcome that is far off and may not be possible, Jordan’s former foreign minister said. “At what point does the international community say enough is enough? We’re...
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EXPLAINER - What war crimes laws apply to the Israel-Palestinian conflict?
War between Israel and Palestine, since the surprise cross-border attack by Gaza’s ruling group, Hamas, has caused a large and rising civilian death toll – and accusations of war crimes – on both sides. The conflict falls under a complex international system of justice that has emerged since World War Two. Even...
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What is Gaza's Rafah border crossing and why is it important?
The Rafah crossing is the main entrance and exit point to the Gaza Strip from Egypt. It has become a focal point of efforts to deliver aid to Palestinians since Israel imposed a “total siege” on Gaza on 9 October. What is the latest on aid to the Gaza Strip? Humanitarian...
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FACTBOX - Cairo Peace Summit on Gaza conflict: who will attend?
Egypt is planning to host an international conference on Saturday to discuss the escalating war between Israel and the Palestinian group, Hamas, in Gaza. The list of attendees expected, so far, at the Cairo Peace Summit includes: Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas Jordanian King Abdullah Bahraini King, Hamad bin Isa...
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FACTBOX - Narges Mohammadi, imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner
Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian women’s rights advocate serving 12 years in jail, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a decision likely to anger Tehran’s theocratic government. Who is Narges Mohammadi and why is she in prison? Activism Mohammadi, 51, is now the deputy head of the Defenders of Human...
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Student from Guinea cycles across Africa to enrol at Egypt's Al-Azhar
Mamadou Safaiou Barry was determined to study Islamic theology at an elite school. Unable to afford a flight to Egypt from Guinea, he drew a map of Africa in his spiral notebook and set off on a second-hand mountain bike. Carrying only a change of clothes, a flashlight and a...
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Taliban weighs using US mass surveillance plan, met with China Huawei
The Taliban are creating a large-scale camera surveillance network for Afghan cities that could involve repurposing a plan crafted by the Americans before their 2021 pullout, an Interior Ministry spokesman told Reuters, as authorities seek to supplement thousands of cameras already across the capital, Kabul. The Taliban administration — which...
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Qatar pursues US-Iran nuclear steps after detainee swap
Qatar wants to capitalise on a US-Iranian detainee deal that it mediated during months of delicate diplomacy to find common ground on a more intractable issue between the two hardened adversaries: the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme. Russia’s war in Ukraine may have top billing at the UN General Assembly, but Iran’s...
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US sees big gains if Saudi-Israel normalisation deal signed
The Biden administration is pressing ahead with a concerted effort to strike a “grand bargain” in the Middle East that includes normalisation of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, calculating that the US could reap big rewards if it can overcome steep obstacles. President Joe Biden’s aides have made this diplomatic push a foreign...
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TIMELINE - US-Iran relations from 1953 coup to 2023 detainee swap deal
The United States and Iran are to free five detainees each under an exchange agreement that also involves the transfer of $6 billion of unfrozen Iranian assets from South Korea to accounts in Qatar. The deal removes one major irritant between Iran and the US, whose animosity dates back to the Central Intelligence Agency’s...
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Morocco King keeps regal distance even in earthquake crisis
When a devastating earthquake shook Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains on 8 September, residents of poor areas where it struck turned for help to the state and the man who leads it, King Mohammed VI. Yet the Monarch, with his sweeping power, has kept a low profile, making just three appearances...
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EXPLAINER - What caused the floods in Libya and why are they so bad?
A catastrophic flood has killed thousands of people in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, sweeping away entire neighbourhoods with their residents and washing many bodies out to sea. Thousands of people are missing. What caused the flood? After pummelling other Mediterranean countries, the powerful Storm Daniel swept into Libya over the weekend, unleashing record...
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Oslo 30 years later still presents a bleak outlook for Palestine-Israel peace
Across the occupied West Bank, Israel’s concrete checkpoints, separation walls and soldiers are reminders of the failure to build peace between Israelis and Palestinians since the historic Oslo Accords were signed 30 years ago this week, Reuters has reported. The accords were intended to be a temporary measure to...
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G20 summit agrees on words but struggles on action
The Group of 20 major economies reached a hard-fought compromise over the war in Ukraine and papered over other key differences in a summit declaration at the weekend, presenting few concrete achievements in its core remit of responses to global financial issues. Diplomats and analysts said the surprise consensus in...
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Iran: has anything changed a year after Mahsa Amini protests erupted?
Iran’s rulers have intensified a clampdown on dissent nearly one year since the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini sparked protests which spiralled into some of the worst political turmoil since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Reuters has reported. Protests began soon after the 16 September death of Kurdish Iranian...
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Iran, US on verge of prisoner swap under Qatar-mediated deal
When $6 billion of unfrozen Iranian funds are wired to banks in Qatar as early as next week, it will trigger a carefully choreographed sequence that will see as many as five detained US dual nationals leave Iran and a similar number of Iranian prisoners held in the US...
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G20 summit wraps up in New Delhi; Modi calls for a virtual meet in November
The G20 summit in New Delhi ended on Sunday as India handed over the bloc presidency to Brazil, while both the US and Russia praised a consensus that did not condemn Moscow for the war in Ukraine but called on members to shun the use of force. Indian Prime Minister...