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The UK and other European countries are reportedly considering a proposal to introduce non-compulsory navigation charges in the Strait of Hormuz as diplomatic efforts involving Qatar, Iran and Oman continue to explore ways to reopen the strategic waterway. Several UK Labour...

World

Syria's newly elected People's Assembly convened its inaugural session on Sunday and elected its first speaker, marking the launch of the first legislative body formed since the ousting of former president Bashar al-Assad. The session comes under the Constitutional Declaration outlining...

MENA

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Asra Media Office (AMO) has called for an urgent intervention to save the life of Palestinian prisoner Yasin Hilmi Karkari, 49, from the town of Salim east of Nablus, in light of the deterioration of his health condition...

News, Asra Media, Israeli jails

A Sudanese court on Sunday sentenced paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and 15 others to death in absentia over the killing of a regional governor and committing war crimes in Darfur, state media reported. The ruling is the first against the...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning and later in the afternoon, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources, at least...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

Good afternoon and welcome to our new live page covering events in the Middle East. You can track developments from earlier today by visiting our previous live page here . These are the key events on Sunday afternoon: • Iran launched attacks across...

MENA

TEHRAN, (PIC) US forces launched a large-scale aggression on Iran, in a new escalation to which Iranian forces responded by targeting US military sites in the Gulf on Sunday. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the completion of a new round of...

News, Iran, US aggression

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who had just returned from another trip to Ukraine to pledge U.S. assistance to its war with Russia, has died of a "brief and sudden" illness. His office has not released any additional details. He was...

Us-foreign-policy, Enewsletter, Donald-trump

Iran said Sunday it was closing the Strait of Hormuz and launched missiles and drones at Gulf neighbours after the US carried out a new round of strikes as their conflict escalated . The latest exchange of fire was sparked by...

MENA

Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has announced a joint German-French initiative for Lebanon, which he said seeks to improve the prospects for peace in the region, as analysts believe European powers are seeking a greater role in shaping the country's...

MENA

Chas Freeman summarizes the last 500 years of human history and offers some “fearless predictions” for the future. Ambassador Freeman chairs Projects International, Inc. He is a retired U.S. defense official, diplomat, and interpreter Cross-posted from Chas Freeman’s Substack Photo licensed under the...

Economics, Finance, Geopolitics

Israeli attacks killed at least three people in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including a nine-year-old girl, Palestinian health officials said. Medics said Israeli gunfire directed at a tent encampment on the eastern side of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central...

MENA

Israeli attacks killed at least five people in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including a nine-year-old girl, Palestinian health officials said. Medics said Israeli gunfire directed at a tent encampment on the eastern side of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central...

MENA

Iraq's prime minister will visit Washington on Monday to deepen strategic ties with the United States, with oil and gas deals expected to be signed as part of a broader push for economic, trade and investment cooperation. Iraq has been seeking...

MENA

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed last night and on Sunday morning different areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem, raiding homes and kidnaping a number of Palestinian citizens. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped six citizens from...

News, Arrests, IOF raids

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) continues to escalate its targeting of Al-Bustan neighborhood in Silwan town, south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, within a systematic policy aimed at changing the demographic and geographical reality in occupied Jerusalem. The neighborhood,...

Jerusalem, al-Bustan neighborhood, Aqsa Mosque

GAZA, (PIC) Summer in the Gaza Strip is no longer just a season in which temperatures rise, but it has become a daily test of people’s ability to adapt to a harsh, relentless reality. While summer in many places is associated with...

Reports, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

Syria's authorities have arrested four former security and paramilitary officials linked to the ousted Assad regime in Deir ez-Zor , while appealing for victims of alleged abuses to come forward with evidence, in a move that has renewed debate over...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Gaza’s health ministry has warned that its ambulance and transport sector is nearing “total paralysis” amid a worsening operational crisis that threatens the continuity of medical services. Addressing a news conference held on Sunday, a spokesman for the ministry called...

News, Ambulance crisis, Gaza Strip

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham , one of the US Congress's most influential foreign policy voices and among Israel's staunchest supporters in Washington , has died aged 71 of an alleged heart attack, ending a political career that spanned more than...

World

England and Argentina will meet on Wednesday in a blockbuster World Cup semi-final infused with decades of bitter rivalry after they battled past Norway and Switzerland respectively in the quarter-finals. The South Americans and their talisman Lionel Messi must defeat England...

Sports

Germany's parliament has backed a bill criminalising the denial of Israel's right to exist, amid growing criticism of Berlin's close ties with Israel amid its genocidal war on Gaza . On Friday, Germany's Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, approved legislation...

World

The caravan enjoys a brief sanctuary in Mazar, where Darius reflects on turning sixteen and watches Weili form an unexpected new friendship. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 |...

#Culture, #Life, featured

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A horde of armed Jewish settlers assaulted the family of Ibrahim al‑Jabour in the Huwara area of Yatta, south of al-Khalil, beating them and attacking them with pepper spray. According to local sources, several members of the family sustained injuries...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

Islam Times - The release of a US Department of Commerce document regarding incentives granted to the UAE has shed new light on Abu Dhabi's role in regional security developments, a course of action that, from Tehran's perspective, carries far-reaching...

United Arab Emirates

This live blog is now closed: Head to our new page where we're continuing to track developments in the region. These were the key developments earlier on Sunday: • Iran launched attacks across the Gulf and announced the closure of the Strait...

MENA

WEST BANK, (PIC) US Democratic lawmaker Ro Khanna said he was detained by extremist Jewish settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week that he described as an “unfiltered look at the human toll of Israeli occupation.” Speaking...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

A prominent Democratic US lawmaker from California, Ro Khanna, said Saturday he was "detained" by armed Israeli settlers along with other Americans during a visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank -- and accused the military of being complicit. "Israeli settlers, brandishing...

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WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) assaulted a Palestinian citizen and kidnaped others during raids in the West Bank on Saturday evening. In the northern West Bank, a 25‑year‑old man was injured after Israeli forces assaulted him at the al‑Jalamah...

News, Arrests, IOF raids

By: Anthony Spaeth - - - - “There’s a storm coming,” Police Superintendent Killian Tong is warned in City on Fire , Simon Elegant’s third novel, “and Hong Kong will look very different when it’s over.” Storm or fire? Whichever apocalypse one prefers, Hong Kong is...

News

For decades, American power rested not only on military strength, economic dominance, technological supremacy, or control of financial flows. It also rested on something less visible, yet just as decisive: the capacity to shape reality through narratives, institutions, and shared...

Politics, USA, Manipulation of public opinion

It has been a busy week with the US making a full-break with the Mou, and it centered on the language in paragraph five of the MoU: Upon the signing of this MoU, the Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements...

Larry C. Johnson

The sound of pliers clicking filled a workshop in eastern China’s Hangzhou as a group of women practised stripping wires, their female instructor moving around the classroom to offer advice. This picture taken on June 28, 2026 shows a woman practicing...

China, LGBTQ & Gender, AFP

The Department of Justice continues to find ways to spoil my breakfast. Consider the case of Ms Ami Chan , which was heard in the Eastern Magistrates Court earlier this week. Department of Justice. Photo: GovHK. Ms Chan was arrested in 2019...

Law & Crime, Opinion, 2019 Protests

When Chung and Terrence bought their double-decker bus from a tunnel operator in 2015, the vehicle had been used for accident simulation and training for close to two decades. Chung (left) and Terrence with their Leyland Victory Mark II bus, which...

Community & Education, Hong Kong, Travel & Transport

Iran on Sunday said it closed the Strait of Hormuz after a vessel traveled on an unapproved route and was struck, warning that any retaliation over the incident would be met with a "severe response". "A vessel that had jeopardised maritime...

MENA

A US military delegation met with Lebanon's army in Beirut to discuss the implementation of Israel's withdrawal from a " pilot zone " in occupied territory, a Lebanese military official told AFP on Saturday. Under a framework agreement reached on 26...

World

Iran reiterated that it will not give UN inspectors access to its nuclear facilities following a UN Security Council meeting on Friday, facing down calls from Western nations to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The meeting was called...

MENA

Good afternoon and welcome to our live coverage of the events in the Middle East. Here are the key developments today: • In the first message since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral, Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed revenge for the killing of...

MENA
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