Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has named US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former UK prime minister Sir Tony Blair as two of the members of the founding executive board of its “Board of Peace” for Gaza.
Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve…
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Who is on Trump’s senior executive overseeing Gaza’s reconstruction?
Reuters / Getty Images / EPAAjay Banga, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are among those on the committee The White House has released the names of the members who will be part of the senior executive working with his new “Board of Peace” for Gaza….
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Israel says US Gaza executive board composition against its policy
TEL AVIV, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Saturday that this week’s Trump administration announcement on the composition of a Gaza executive board was not coordinated with Israel and ran counter to government…
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Donald Trump pushes for regime change in Iran
US President Donald Trump called for new leadership in the Islamic Republic during an interview with Politico released on Saturday.“It’s time to look for new leadership in Iran,” he said.This comes as Iran enters its third week of…
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Making sense of Trump’s Board of Peace appointments
The White House announced appointments to the Gaza Board of Peace on January 16. The Board is being unveiled as the Gaza peace deal is entering a new phase. The new Board of Peace (BoP) is the only entity involved in the peace plan’s new phase. A…
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‘Make America Go Away’: Danes protest against US push to take over Greenland
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) — Thousands of people took to the streets of Denmark’s capital on Saturday to protest against US President Donald Trump’s push to take over Greenland.
The protest followed Trump’s warning on Friday that he…
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Israel objects to line-up of Trump panel for post-war Gaza
Israel said on Saturday it objected to the line-up of a Gaza panel that will operate under US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, which oversees post-war governance in the Palestinian territory.
The panel, known as the Gaza executive board,…
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Trump invites more leaders to join Gaza ‘Board of Peace’
US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” for postwar Gaza began to take shape Saturday, with the leaders of Egypt, Turkey, Argentina and Canada asked to join.
The announcements from those leaders came after the US president named his…
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Egyptian President el-Sissi thanks Trump for offer to mediate with Ethiopia
CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump on Saturday for offering to serve as a mediator with Ethiopia over sharing water from a Nile mega-dam at the center of more than a decade of…
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Big names on Trump’s Gaza peace panel face huge challenges
Getty ImagesThe White House has announced the first members of its Gaza “Board of Peace”, and the list of names will do little to dispel the criticism from some quarters that the US president’s plan resembles, at its heart, a colonial solution…
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