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,…
Category: 3. Middle East
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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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Turkey and Australia confirm agreement on COP31 split-hosting deal
BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Turkey will host the COP31 climate summit in 2026 with Australia leading the negotiation process, a document released at the COP30 summit in Brazil showed on Friday, confirming an earlier announcement that a split hosting…
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Lebanon ready for agreement to end IDF strikes, Aoun says
Lebanon ready for agreement to end IDF strikes, Aoun says | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastAoun added that talks would also involve the IDF withdrawing from the five outposts in Lebanese territory, where the military said in they…
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Mamdani accuses US of funding Israeli ‘genocide’ during warm meeting with Trump
US President Donald Trump gave a warm greeting to incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday, praising Mamdani’s electoral victory in the first in-person meeting for the political opposites, who have clashed…
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Amid IDF strikes, Lebanon’s Aoun says state monopoly on weapons needed in south
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said on Friday that a state monopoly on weapons was inevitable, and urged a committee supervising the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to ensure Lebanon’s army was the only armed presence in the…
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