(Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the war in Ukraine and the situation in Gaza on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa, the Canadian government said on Saturday.
The two…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Brazil’s former president Bolsonaro arrested days before starting 27-year prison sentence
SAO PAULO — Brazil’s federal police arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro preemptively on Saturday, days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, officials said.
A close aide said the…
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Nigerian Christian group says 303 children, 12 teachers seized in latest mass kidnapping
A Christian group on Saturday said 315 students and teachers were seized a day earlier in Nigeria’s second mass school abduction in a week, as security fears mounted in Africa’s most populous nation.
The early Friday raid on St Mary’s…
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Families of Houthi-held Yemeni aid workers numb with worry: ‘We’re ghosts of people’
CAIRO — Ahmed al-Yamani’s family went from joy of celebrating his daughter’s wedding to terror the next day, when masked troops stormed into their home in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, held by the country’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels,…
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MAGA stalwart Taylor Greene announces resignation; Trump: ‘Great news for the country’
WASHINGTON — Saying she refuses to be a “battered wife,” US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Friday that she was resigning from the House of Representatives after a dramatic falling-out with US President Donald Trump,…
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Italian anti-Israel activists clash with cops outside Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball game
Italian police clashed with some 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters Friday night outside a EuroLeague basketball game between Virtus Bologna and Maccabi Tel Aviv, which the guest team lost 89 to 99.
Ahead of the game, the anti-Israel…
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Germany’s antisemitism czar seeks ban on ‘from the river to the sea’ chant
JTA — Germany’s antisemitism czar has urged a law to ban pro-Palestinian slogans such as “From the river to the sea,” renewing a fraught debate over the country’s historic allegiance to Israel and freedom of speech.
Felix…
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‘Pay-for-slay’ still active under Palestinian Authority despite initial ban
‘Pay-for-slay’ still active under Palestinian Authority despite initial ban | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastThe pay-for-slay program by the PA was said to have ended in February earlier this year, after President Mahmoud Abbas had…
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US lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign after rupture with Trump
US lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign after rupture with Trump
US Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime ally of Donald Trump who recently had a dramatic falling out with the president, says she is resigning…
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PM shares story from anti-Israel site suggesting Epstein had ties to Israeli intelligence
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared an article on X Friday from an American socialist anti-Israeli publication suggesting that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once worked for Israeli intelligence.
Netanyahu shared the article from…
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