Humanitarian organizations were bracing for foreign aid cuts but were taken aback when President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order pausing assistance for the next 90 days.
Category: 3. Middle East
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‘People are anxious’: USAID staff rattled by Trump's foreign aid freeze
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PKK leader airs cautious optimism after talks with Turkey's pro-Kurdish party
The Kurdish militant leader expressed hope for a peaceful solution to the country’s 40-year armed conflict after four-hour talks with the pro-Kurdish party.
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Hamas to give Israel list of names and statuses of hostages
Israel is on high alert for the publication of Hamas’s two lists on Friday, it was announced on Thursday.
One list is expected to include the names of three kidnapped female soldiers as well as the name of Arbel Yehud from Nir Oz, who,…
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‘My daughter’s bones were scattered on the ground’
Fergal KeaneSpecial correspondent
BBCLina al-Dabah shows a picture of her daughter Aya Everything gets mixed up together. The child’s multi-coloured backpack. A running shoe. A steel pot perforated by shrapnel. Bits of beds, chairs, cookers,…
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Lebanese security service arrests man on suspicion of spying for Israel
A Lebanese man has been arrested and investigated for carrying out espionage for and corroborating with Israel, Lebanon’s Security Directorate announced in a statement on Thursday.
The statement read that after a “precise monitoring and…
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Iran Nobel winner addresses French parliament while on prison leave
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on Thursday called for an “end” to the Islamic republic and urged human rights to be a precondition of any negotiation with Tehran as she addressed French lawmakers, in a rare encounter with an…
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Syrian Symphony arrives in Doha
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Al-Monitor Doha: Syrian Symphony arrives
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Tehran refutes Trump’s designation of Houthis
Iran on Thursday condemned as “baseless” a move by US President Donald Trump to re-designate Yemen’s Tehran-aligned Houthi movement as a “foreign terrorist organization (FTO).”
Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said that…
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Israeli-Russian hostage Tsurkov is alive and Iraq is working on release
Israeli-Russian Princeton researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, who is being held hostage by an Iraqi militia, is alive and the Iraqi prime minister is working on her release, Iraqi foreign minister Fouad Hussein told Axios reporter Barak Ravid on…
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