Thousands of Afghans streamed across the Torkham border as Pakistan ramped up deportations after a March 31 deadline.
Category: 3. Middle East
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Afghans leaving Pakistan amid mass deportations
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Red Crescent demands international probe into Israel killing of Gaza medics | Gaza News
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has called for an independent international inquiry into the “deliberate killing” of 15 medical and humanitarian workers in an attack by Israeli forces in Gaza.
In a statement on Monday, the group…
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Africa must shun Trump’s push to resurrect coal | Climate Crisis
President Donald Trump’s administration has recently taken to urging African leaders to burn more planet-heating fossil fuels, and in particular coal, the dirtiest of all of them. Simultaneously, it scrapped USAID funding, which had been…
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Oil prices fall as Gulf economies grapple with Trump’s tariffs: What to know
Falling oil prices could negatively impact the budgets of Gulf states and are coinciding with losses in the region’s stock markets.
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Targeted, killed, burned alive: Journalists in Gaza attacked by Israel | Gaza
Abed Shaat drifted off to sleep on Sunday night, exhausted after covering Israeli air strikes all day.
The 33-year-old freelance photographer had returned to a tent in front of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza where he’d been…
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Macron, Sisi call for Gaza ceasefire and release of captives
The leaders of France, Egypt, and Jordan discussed efforts to achieve these goals at a meeting in Cairo.
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UK lawyers accuse 10 nationals of war crimes in Gaza: What to know
A legal team has submitted a 240-page report accusing 10 British nationals of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, while two parliamentarians were denied entry to Israel amid growing tensions over international accountability.
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Red Crescent says Israeli troops shot Gaza crew ‘with intent to kill’
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said on Monday that 15 medics and rescuers killed by Israeli forces last month in Gaza were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill”.
The killings occurred in the southern Gaza Strip on March 23, days into a…
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Macron rejects any Hamas role in post-war Gaza
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that Palestinian militant group Hamas should have no role in governing the Gaza Strip once its war with Israel is over.
On a visit to Cairo to discuss the war, Macron said he was strongly opposed to…
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France, Egypt, Jordan say Palestinian Authority must head post-war Gaza
The leaders of France, Egypt and Jordan on Monday said the Palestinian Authority must head post-war governance in Gaza.
The question of who will rule the Palestinian territory has been one of the main sticking points in efforts to prolong a…
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