Category: 3. Middle East

A Knesset committee on Monday approved a bill allowing Israeli police to arrest Arab Israelis without the attorney general’s approval, on allegations of “incitement” on social media, Anadolu reports.

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Two Palestinians, including a child, were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza on Monday, in the latest violation of a ceasefire agreement, Anadolu reports.

Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Anadolu…

Malaysian search and rescue teams discovered five more bodies off the coast of Langkawi Monday after a boat packed with mostly refugees from Myanmar capsized. Police and maritime officials say 21 bodies have been recovered so far.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog began a visit to Zambia on Monday, his first-ever trip to the southern African country, Anadolu reports.

“Africa is the future,” Herzog posted on US social media company X.

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The College de France said it cancelled a symposium scheduled for Nov. 13-14 on Palestine, reiterating its “strict neutrality with regard to issues of a political or ideological nature,” Anadolu reports.

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Iraq is heading to the polls amid deep divisions among its Shia political elite and shifting regional power dynamics. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is caught between Iran, the US, and the Gulf, as the powerful Sadrist movement…

Seven Democrats and one independent voted with Republicans on Sunday night to reopen the government to end the longest shutdown in US history.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson said the House of Representatives will vote “as soon as possible”…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu held talks in Cairo on Monday to strengthen military and technical cooperation, Anadolu reports.

Sisi and Shoigu explored…

At least two people including a child have been killed in an Israeli drone strike east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera reporters in the besieged Palestinian territory.

Hamas condemned Israel’s “daily and continuous…