German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul accused Russia of helping Iran identify potential strike targets on Friday, saying President Vladimir Putin was hoping to use the Iran war as a distraction from his attack on Ukraine.Speaking to reporters…
Category: 3. Middle East
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German FM alleges Russia helping Iran identify strike targets
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Is Trump's pause on attacking Iranian energy for diplomacy or an escalation?
The US president’s commitment to deadlines is fluid but he uses them for a purpose, writes the BBC’s James Landale.
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The huge Iranian missile fragments scattered across Israel, West Bank
By Pesha Magid
JERUSALEM, March 27 (Reuters) – Some are the size of small trucks, and they’ve come crashing to the ground almost daily for a month — littering school yards, roadsides and hilltops with visceral remnants of a Middle East at war….
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WTO reform talks face U.S.-India wall in Cameroon, diplomats say
By Olivia Le Poidevin
GENEVA, March 27 (Reuters) – Large differences remain between most countries and the U.S. and India as trade ministers meet to discuss reforms at the World Trade Organization, two diplomats told Reuters on Friday.
The…
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Palestinian man killed as death toll from West Bank settler violence climbs
Mohammad al-Malhi is the seventh Palestinian killed by a settler in a surge of violence since the start of the war with Iran.
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Pakistan says US-Iran backchannel talks continue despite Tehran rejecting plan
As Iran publicly rejected a US 15-point ceasefire proposal on Wednesday, hardening its stance and issuing a sweeping counteroffer, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ishaq Dar, on Thursday, asserted that indirect engagement…
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Mass cancellations as Arkia says long-haul flights to depart from Israel, not Jordan
Israeli airline Arkia announced Friday that its long-haul flights to New York, Bangkok and Hanoi will take off from Ben Gurion Airport instead of Jordan’s Aqaba Airport starting Sunday.
Due to the Transportation Ministry’s wartime…
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Iran war reshapes diplomacy as old dealmakers sidelined
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Ali Larijani. Oman and Qatar.These are the names – and places – that have long defined the diplomatic choreography between Washington and Tehran. These were the intermediaries, the familiar channels, the…
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More than 1,900 dead in Iran since start of U.S.-Israel strikes, IFRC says
March 27 (Reuters) – More than 1,900 people have been killed and at least 20,000 injured in Iran since the start of U.S. and Israeli attacks, said Maria Martinez of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on…
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IRGC warns civilians to avoid US forces as Iran targets Gulf states
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a warning for civilians to leave the areas where US forces are deployed across the Gulf region, the IRGC-run Fars News Agency reported on Friday.In the warning, which stated that the US forces are…
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