(Reuters) -A Sudanese coalition led by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on Saturday a parallel government, a move fiercely opposed by the army that could drive the country further towards partition as a two-year-old civil war…
Category: 3. Middle East
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‘Horrors upon horrors’: How US Congress responded to mass hunger in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Washington, DC – The images of emaciated children coming out of Gaza have moved some of Israel’s staunchest supporters in the United States Congress to decry the humanitarian situation in the besieged Palestinian territory ravaged by
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Trump wades in on Thailand-Cambodia fighting during golf visit in Scotland | Border Disputes News
United States President Donald Trump says he has spoken with the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand in a bid to end their border fighting, on the second day of his golfing trip in Scotland, where he owns and is promoting two courses.
“Just spoke…
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Ziad Rahbani, Lebanese musical giant and sardonic critic, dead at 69
By Timour Azhari and Laila Bassam
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Ziad Rahbani, the Lebanese composer and musician who built a distinct Lebanese sound from Western and Arabic musical roots, and whose sardonic critique of the country’s sectarian politics rang…
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Pakistan issues glacial floods alert for northwest, heavy rain forecast | Climate Crisis News
Areas affected include popular tourist destinations, such as Fairy Meadows, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Pakistan has issued a warning about glacial flooding in the northwest with more rain forecast in the coming week, as the country…
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Syria, Israel hold talks in Paris over conflict in southern Syria’s Suwayda | News
A Syrian official tells Al Jazeera Damascus emphasises the unity and sovereignty of Syria are nonnegotiable.
Syrian and Israeli officials have held talks in Paris mediated by the United States, according to a Syrian official, in the wake of an…
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Recognizing Palestine state before established could be ‘counterproductive,’ Italian premier says – Middle East Monitor
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Saturday that “now is not the right time” to recognize a Palestinian state, warning that premature recognition could be counterproductive and risk masking unresolved…
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Israel says it’s distributing aid in Gaza, so why are people starving? | Crimes Against Humanity News
One hundred twenty-seven people, 85 of them children, have died from hunger or malnutrition as a result of Israel’s siege of Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blocked all aid to Gaza in…
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UN agency for Palestinian refugees – Middle East Monitor
More than 6,000 aid trucks carrying essential food and supplies are stuck in Jordan and Egypt, unable to reach Gaza due to Israeli restrictions, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned Saturday,…
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‘Famine’, ‘starvation’: the challenges in defining Gaza’s plight
The United Nations and NGOs are warning of an imminent famine in the Gaza Strip — a designation based on strict criteria and scientific evidence.
But the difficulty of getting to the most affected areas in the Palestinian territory, besieged by…
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