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Thousands of Israelis demand return of hostages after bodies recovered

Thousands of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday to demand urgent government action to bring home hostages held in Gaza, after the bodies of...

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Israel strikes Rafah after UN court orders halt to offensive

Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded Rafah on Saturday, as the government dismissed an order by the top UN court to halt its military offensive in...

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Iran jails father of young man executed over protests

Iranian authorities have jailed a father who campaigned unsuccessfully for clemency for his 22-year-old son after he was sentenced to death in...

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Italy to resume funding for UN agency for Palestinian refugees

Italy said Saturday it would resume funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), as Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed...

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Iran director's identity was hidden even from his actress

A hard-hitting Iranian film about the country's women-led protests that has wowed Cannes was kept so secret that even its star didn't know who was...

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Israel strikes Rafah after top UN court orders it to halt offensive

Israel bombed the Gaza Strip, including Rafah, on Saturday, a day after the top UN court ordered it to halt military operations in the southern city...

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Four Britons repatriated from Syria camp, Kurds say

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria said Friday that they had handed over a woman and three children to British representatives for repatriation,...

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Gaza zookeeper fears for his animals after fleeing Rafah

In a cowshed in Gaza's Khan Yunis, zookeeper Fathi Ahmed Gomaa has created a temporary home for dozens of animals including lions and baboons, having...

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Swiss return three confiscated artefacts to Iraq

Switzerland's foreign minister on Friday returned to her Iraqi counterpart three important Mesopotamian objects seized during a criminal procedure,...

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Tunisian Jewish pilgrimage sees low turnout amid security fears

The annual Jewish pilgrimage on Tunisia's island of Djerba began Friday with low turnout amid heightened security concerns after a deadly attack last...

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Israel strikes Gaza as world court ruling due

Israeli forces struck the Gaza Strip on Friday, as the UN's top court was due to rule on a plea to halt the military offensive over accusations of...

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Escaped Iran director arrives in Cannes

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof arrived at the Cannes Film Festival Thursday after his dramatic escape from his homeland after being sentenced to...

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Israel launches deadly Gaza strikes, says ready for new truce talks

Israel launched devastating air strikes on Gaza early Thursday while also saying it is ready to resume stalled talks on a truce and hostage release...

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Tens of thousands bid farewell to Iran's Raisi ahead of burial

Tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets Thursday to bid farewell to president Ebrahim Raisi ahead of his burial in his home town after he...

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Thousands bid farewell to Iran's Raisi ahead of burial

Thousands marched in Iran on Thursday on the final day of funeral rites for president Ebrahim Raisi, who will be laid to rest in his hometown days...

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Iran's Raisi to be laid to rest in home town

Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash, will be buried Thursday in his hometown after two days of funeral processions...

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Israel furious as Ireland, Spain, Norway recognize Palestinian state

Israel reacted with fury after three European countries said Wednesday they would recognise a Palestinian state, more than seven months into the...

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Israel furious as 3 European countries recognise Palestinian state

Israel reacted with fury after three European countries said Wednesday they would recognise a Palestinian state, more than seven months into the...

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Israel raid in West Bank enters second day after 8 killed

An Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Jenin stretched into a second day on Wednesday, an AFP correspondent reported, after eight Palestinians were...

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European states to move on Palestine recognition as Gaza war rages

At least three European countries were expected to announce steps towards recognising a Palestinian state on Wednesday, after more than seven months...

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Injured Neymar set to miss start of next Saudi season

Neymar is set to miss the start of the next Saudi Pro League season as he recovers from a serious knee injury, Al Hilal's coach said Tuesday. The...

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Funeral processions for Iran president to be held in Tehran

Large crowds of Iranians are expected to gather in Tehran on Wednesday to pay tribute to late president Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter...

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Al-Hilal face new Saudi season without sidelined Neymar

Neymar remains sidelined from knee surgery and will miss his Saudi Pro League champions Al-Hilal's pre-season training, coach Jorge Jesus said on...

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Blinken unsure Israel will make compromises for Saudi deal

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday he was unsure whether Israel was ready to make compromises to reach a deal to normalize relations...

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Blinken says Gaza truce still possible but set back by ICC move

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that a Gaza ceasefire deal was still possible but he charged that an International Criminal Court...

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Israel shuts down Associated Press live video feed of Gaza

Israel said it had shut down an Associated Press live video feed of war-torn Gaza on Tuesday, sparking a protest from the US news agency and concern...

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Nine child workers die in Egypt as bus plunges into the Nile

At least 10 female farm workers, nine of them children, died in Egypt on Tuesday when a minibus plunged off a river ferry and into the Nile northwest...

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Rasoulof, director who fled Iran, will attend Cannes

Award-winning director Mohammad Rasoulof, who made a dramatic clandestine escape from Iran this month, will attend the Cannes Film Festival for the...

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10 killed in Egypt as minibus plunges off ferry into Nile

At least 10 female farm workers died in Egypt when a minibus plunged off a river ferry and into the Nile northwest of Cairo on Tuesday, the health...

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Cyprus says maritime aid shipments to Gaza 'on track'

Four ships from the United States and France are transporting aid from Larnaca port to the Gaza Strip amid the spiralling humanitarian crisis there,...

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Palestinian ministry says Israel troops kill 7 in West Bank raid

Palestinian health officials said Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians during a raid Tuesday in the West Bank city of Jenin, where the military...

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Gaza battles flare as Israel slams arrest warrant bid for 'war crimes'

Israeli forces battled Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily dismissed a bid for an international arrest warrant...

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Syria first lady diagnosed with leukaemia: presidency

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's British-born wife Asma, who recovered from breast cancer in 2019, has been diagnosed with leukaemia, the...

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Women's tennis signs 'multi-year partnership' with Saudi investment fund

The women's tennis tour (WTA) on Monday announced "a multi-year partnership" with the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund (PIF), emulating a deal made...

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Amal Clooney helped ICC weigh Gaza war crimes evidence

Amal Clooney helped the International Criminal Court weigh evidence that led to the decision to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas...

21.05.2024 20

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ICC prosecutor seeks Gaza 'war crimes' arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Hamas leaders

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top...

20.05.2024 20

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Israel's Defence Minister Gallant: Netanyahu ally turned critic

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, whose arrest warrant was sought at the International Criminal Court on Monday, was long a staunch ally of Prime...

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Worry in Damascus, joy in rebel areas at Raisi's death

Syrians in Damascus voiced concern Monday at the impact on their country of the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, as some in Syria's last main...

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Israel's hawkish Netanyahu faces global isolation

Israel's hawkish right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is treading increasingly thin ice after the International Criminal Court's prosecutor on...

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Iran's nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri named acting foreign minister

Iran's veteran nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri, a harsh critic of the West, was Monday named acting foreign minister to replace the top diplomat killed...

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Strikes pound Gaza as Israel voices 'duty' to expand Rafah incursion

Air strikes and shelling hit Gaza on Monday, witnesses said, as battles raged in the besieged territory's north and the far-southern city of Rafah...

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Exiled opposition group says Raisi death 'monumental blow' to Iran

The death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash is a major blow to the Islamic republic's clerical leadership, an exiled opposition...

20.05.2024 20

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Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's anti-Western top diplomat

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who died in a helicopter crash along with President Ebrahim Raisi, was known for his fierce...

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US envoy touts 'potential' of Israel-Saudi deal in Netanyahu talks

US President Joe Biden's national security advisor briefed Benjamin Netanyahu on the "potential" of a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi...

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Israeli minister blasts Spain's plans to recognise Palestinian state

An Israeli minister on Sunday criticised in Madrid Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's plans to recognise a Palestinian state, saying this would be...

19.05.2024 20

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Intense search for Iran's President Raisi after helicopter 'accident'

Iranian search and rescue teams were scouring a fog-shrouded mountainside after a helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi went missing in an...

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Major Gaza hospital reopens amid the chaos of war

Lying bedridden in her room at the recently reopened Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in Gaza, Alaa Abu Ahmed is relieved that she can finally restart...

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Iran presidential helicopter in 'accident', search underway: state media

A helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in "an accident" amid poor weather conditions on Sunday, state media reported, with...

19.05.2024 10

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Deadly bombs hit Gaza as US security envoy visits Israel

An Israeli strike in Gaza killed 31 people Sunday, the Palestinian civil defence agency said, as US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was...

19.05.2024 10

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Israel army says body of one hostage retrieved from Gaza

The Israeli army said Saturday that troops had retrieved the body of hostage Ron Benjamin from the war-torn Gaza Strip after he was "murdered"...

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