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A large majority of Labour Party members support a full arms embargo on Israel and a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements, according to new polling that highlights growing pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer...

World

Iran's supreme leader said on Thursday that the United States and Israel had been dealt a "decisive blow" in the Middle East war, after the government reported "no tangible progress" in negotiations on ending the conflict. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's message,...

MENA

Iran's World Cup squad is set to arrive in Mexico on Sunday, with players and staff still awaiting US visas just one week before the tournament gets underway. The players, who have been attending a training camp in...

Sports

In a remote mining town at the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, grief and mistrust are complicating efforts to stop the virus. Health workers are trying to treat the ill and bury the dead, but some...

Ebola Virus, Congo, Democratic Republic of (Congo-Kinshasa), Grief (Emotion)

Four Iranian-flagged oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, a first since 15 April and the US blockade of Iranian ports, according to maritime tracking firm Kpler. In data published on Thursday, the firm detected the...

MENA

On football’s extreme commercialization Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality , was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and More 3.0...

Economics, Geopolitics, Article

GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said on Thursday it had documented a sharp rise in Israeli mass killings and assassinations targeting Palestinian civilians in Gaza, warning that the pattern reflects Israel’s systematic continuation of genocide and efforts to...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli assassinations

Lebanon's "founding father" is being honoured at a moment when the country needs his message more than ever, according to a priest involved in the campaign that led to his beatification by the Catholic Church. Speaking to The New Arab...

MENA

Syria’s participation by President Ahmed Al-Sharaa in the European summit recently held in Cyprus marked an important milestone on the path toward building a new partnership with the European Union and Mediterranean Middle Eastern states. From the...

Perspectives

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Thursday morning, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources, at least 181 settlers entered...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

MPs could vote to ban soldiers in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) from entering the UK, Declassified can reveal. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has tabled an amendment to the Armed Forces Bill to ban the entry of foreign...

Archive, Middle East, Israel

GAZA, (PIC) One civilian was martyred and others were injured on Thursday evening in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City. Local sources said that at least one citizen was killed and others were injured as a result of a strike from an...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has called for urgent international action deterring Israeli attacks that continue to kill and injure civilians in the Gaza Strip. In a statement on Thursday, Hamas said that the Israeli occupation forces continue to target civilians and...

News, Gaza Strip, Hamas Movement

The massive aerial assault unleashed upon Kyiv and its surrounding regions this week offers a sobering window into the raw, industrial nature of modern warfare. As Ukrainian air defenses struggled against what Kyiv described as one of the...

War & Peace, Arms, Iran

As the government’s standing plummets to an all-time low due to a reckless disregard for the welfare of its people, mass protests sweep across major Iran’s cities, including Shiraz, Tabriz and Tehran. Driven by a threat to their economic...

Column, Courts & Law, Middle East

As the United States prepares to co-host the 2026 World Cup with Mexico and Canada, the world’s biggest sporting event will unfold in a volatile domestic and international context. Eleven U.S. cities are hosting “the beautiful game” against a...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

As talks for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to end hostilities between Iran and the United States remain stalled, sporadic clashes persist in the Persian Gulf. Concurrently, Israel's destructive campaigns in Lebanon and a potential impasse in...

Analysis

GAZA, (PIC) Gaza’s digital crisis is a multifaceted emergency defined by the systematic destruction of telecommunications infrastructure, a severe cash liquidity crisis that forces reliance on fragile digital wallets, and compounding data security threats. Over 64% to 80% of cell towers have...

Infographic, Gaza internet, Gaza Strip

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WEST BANK, (PIC) Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi said on Thursday that escalating settler militia attacks in the West Bank, including the burning of Palestinian land and destruction of property, amount to organized terrorism that requires action at all levels. Mardawi said the...

News, Hamas Movement, settler attacks

For any Americans who were paying attention, no less than twelve weeks ago Donald Trump said he would reopen Hormuz as his main objective against Iran. Now he proclaims a blockade of the strait he swore to open; welcome to...

Politics, USA, Political ignorance

In early May, an armed group of around 2,000 men attacked Nahua communities in the mountains of Guerrero state, Mexico. They shot at residents, used drones to bomb their homes, then turned to setting crops and community buildings on fire....

Activism, Americas, News

Despite multiple attempts by Israel to quell the fighting in Gaza and decapitate Hamas's leadership, the group continues a guerilla-style resistance. The IDF now fights on three active fronts: Lebanon, Iran, and Gaza. But it’s perhaps the forgotten war in...

Generation Jihad, Long War Journal, Gaza

Syrian authorities have vowed to cooperate with European countries investigating war crimes and grave violations committed under Bashar al-Assad, pledging to publish a list of 1,000 individuals wanted for crimes during the former president's rule as states...

MENA

As Russia deepens cooperation with Afghanistan’s rulers, it faces a growing tension between regional influence, connectivity ambitions and its own security concerns. Few countries have warned more consistently about the dangers emanating from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan than Russia. Yet Moscow is...

South Asia, Afghan Terrorism, Block 3

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has urged the UN to blacklist Israel as an entity involved in targeting children through killing, torture, displacement, and deprivation of their rights, calling for action to curb Israel’s violations against Palestinian children. This came in a...

News, Gaza Strip, Hamas Movement

US President Donald Trump claimed he had spoken to Hezbollah for the first time to help secure a concrete ceasefire between the militant group and Israel—only for Hezbollah to reject a US-brokered proposal hours later. Speaking from the Oval Office,...

MENA

As advanced packaging becomes a critical enabler for next-generation semiconductor products, Intel continues to drive innovation through its Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology. EMIB has emerged as a foundational packaging solution for heterogeneous integration, allowing multiple chiplets and… com/eda/synopsys/369879-intel-pushing-emib-forward-design-methodology-insights-with-synopsys-tools/">Intel:...

3D IC, Chiplet, EDA

A Sydney man credited with saving dozens of lives during last year's deadly mass shooting on Bondi Beach has been charged with assaulting his father, local media and police said Thursday. Syrian-Australian Ahmed al-Ahmed shot to fame...

World

On the other end of the line, Javed sounds worried and tired. "Our situation here is getting worse every day," he shares with The New Arab . "Some of my comrades have been locked up here for eight months,...

Society

In recent days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli army to seize 70% of Gaza – a sizeable increase from the 60% it currently controls. This follows an updated map sent to aid agencies in Gaza in...

Middle East, 20-point Gaza Peace Plan, Block 2

In a significant policy shift symbolising rising environmental ambition, Uzbekistan on Thursday announced that it will become a donor of international environmental funding to the Global Environment Facility (GEF), as the Eighth GEF Assembly opened in the historic city of...

Aid, Biodiversity, Climate Change Finance

For nearly a year and a half, Nader Abu Hilal has waited for news of his son. Each update that reaches the family home in Dura, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, brings fresh anxiety. The latest reports suggest...

MENA
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