Catholic leader lands in Lebanon | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastPope Leo XIV begins a three-day visit to Lebanon, meeting leaders, touring five cities, and honoring victims of the 2020 Beirut port explosion.Pope Leo XIV disembarks…
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Catholic leader lands in Lebanon
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Rahi: Only diplomacy can ease Hezbollah-Israel tensions
Rahi: Only diplomacy can ease Hezbollah-Israel tensions | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastMaronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi urged Hezbollah to break from Iran and give its weapons to the Lebanese Army, calling diplomacy the…
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PKK urges Turkey to free Ocalan to advance peace process
A senior Kurdistan Workers’ Party commander told AFP the group will take no further steps in the peace process with Turkey, urging it to advance negotiations and free PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan.
“All the steps the leader Apo has initiated have…
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Don’t abandon us to Iran, Kurdish general tells US, Israel
Don’t abandon us to Iran, Kurdish general tells US, Israel | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastIraqi Kurdistan-based General Yazdanpanah says calls for “decentralization are meaningless, as they will not ensure Kurdish rights in Syria…
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Fewer and fewer Americans support Israel. Will their next president?
About a month ago, as JD Vance was fresh off a trip to Israel, a young man at the University of Mississippi asked him why the US still supported the Jewish state.
Wearing a Make America Great Again hat, the man accused Israel of “ethnic…
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Egypt steps up training for future Gaza police force
Egypt steps up training for future Gaza police force | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastAl-Ain reported Egypt is training a potential Gaza police force to focus on sensitive issues, most notably border and crossing management, which…
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Surgeons save soldier wounded in Syria who has a bullet lodged in his heart
Surgeons at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center managed to save the life of an Israeli soldier wounded in Syria who arrived at the hospital in critical condition with a bullet lodged in his heart, the hospital said Sunday.
He was one of two…
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Qatar says Hamas failure to return last two slain hostages can’t ‘obstruct’ Gaza plan
A spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said that the two deceased hostages whose bodies remain in Gaza should not be seen as grounds to delay the second phase of US President Donald Trump’s peace deal.
The comments from Doha, a key…
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Netanyahu submits pardon request in Israel corruption cases
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial facing corruption charges, announced Sunday he had submitted a pardon request, saying the long-running cases were tearing the country apart.
US President Donald Trump wrote to Israeli President…
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Israel’s Netanyahu seeks pardon in corruption cases
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial facing corruption charges, announced Sunday he had submitted a pardon request, saying the long-running cases were tearing the country apart.
US President Donald Trump wrote to Israeli President…
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