By Guy Faulconbridge
MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Dmitry Medvedev, a senior Kremlin security official, said in remarks released for publication on Monday that the world was getting very dangerous, but that Russia did not want a global…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Anti-regime Oscar-nominated Iranian screenwriter arrested in Tehran
AP — One of the Oscar-nominated screenwriters of the Iranian drama “It Was Just an Accident” has been arrested in Tehran just weeks before the Academy Awards.
Representatives for the film on Sunday said that Mehdi Mahmoudian was…
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Muslim states say Israel broke Gaza ceasefire, not Hamas
“[We] strongly condemn Israel’s repeated violations of the ceasefire in Gaza,” The Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia stated.The denouncement claimed the ongoing military operations…
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‘Hard to believe’: Deni Avdija becomes first Israeli to be selected as NBA All-Star
JTA — Portland Trail Blazers star Deni Avdija’s meteoric rise has officially reached a new stratosphere, as the 25-year-old forward has become the National Basketball Association’s first-ever Israeli All-Star.
Avdija was named an…
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IDF says airstrike killed Hezbollah engineering commander in south Lebanon
An airstrike in the southern Lebanese town of Doueir on Sunday afternoon killed a Hezbollah engineering commander, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The strike killed Ali Dawoud Amees, whom the military identified as a “division head in…
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Syria says it detained group that used Hezbollah arms for attacks on airport
Syria said on Sunday that it had detained a group behind recent rocket attacks on the Mezzeh military airport in Damascus, with investigators tracing the weapons to Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group backed by Iran.
The Syrian Interior…
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Making history, Deni Avdija becomes first Israeli selected for NBA All-Star Game
Selection is latest accolade for Portland Trail Blazers star * UK ex-envoy Peter Mandelson quits Labour Party over new reports of Epstein links
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Syria's only female minister pushes for change: 'I'm not here for window dressing'
The BBC’s Lyse Doucet follows Hind Kabawat as she confronts the challenges of fragmented, post-Assad Syria.
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Save the Kurds Act targets Syria regime abuses
The Save the Kurds Act was introduced on Thursday, a day before an integration deal was reached, seeking to restore sanctions on Syrian government officials and financial institutions in response to the Sharaa regime’s attacks on Kurdish…
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Trump Says He Hopes for Iran Deal, but There Are ‘Very Big, Powerful Ships’
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he hopes his country and Iran will be able to reach an agreement, speaking at Mar-a-Lago, responding to threats by Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who said earlier in the day that any attack on…
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