On Saturday, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam appointed a new government consisting of 24 ministers, including five women, marking the country’s first full cabinet since 2022.
Speaking to reporters at Beirut’s Baabda Palace, Salam said…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Hamas leader hails Iran’s support, claims victory as Gazans return
Head of Hamas’s Political (Shura) Council Muhammad Ismail Darwish claimed that “In just one day or within 48 hours, half a million Palestinians returned to their homeland, and that “even with nothing, they sat on the ground and, like…
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Trump: Palestinians have no right of return under Gaza plan
President Donald Trump said Palestinians would have no right of return to Gaza under his US takeover plan, describing his proposal in excerpts of an interview released Monday as a “real estate development for the future.”
Trump told Fox News…
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Gaza reconstruction plan rules out Palestinians returning there
US President Donald Trump says his plan to rebuild Gaza does not include the possibility of Palestinians returning there.
“No, they can’t go back,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News television, his…
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Anger over Israel’s arrest of East Jerusalem bookshop owners
An Israeli police raid on a well-known chain of Palestinian bookshops in occupied East Jerusalem and the detention of their owners has shocked many people in the city’s cultural, journalistic and diplomatic communities, who have described it as…
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Iran president says Trump aiming to bring country ‘to its knees’
Iran’s president accused his US counterpart Donald Trump on Monday of seeking to bring the Islamic republic “to its knees” as the country marked the 1979 revolution that toppled the shah.
The revolution removed a pro-US government in Iran, and the…
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How vulnerable are UAE, Bahrain to Trump's 25% tariff on aluminum?
The United Arab Emirates is the second biggest exporter of aluminum to the United States after Canada, supplying $1.78 billion of the metal to Washington in 2024.
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Trump says US is ‘committed to buying and owning Gaza’
AFPMost of Gaza’s population has been displaced multiple times during the war President Donald Trump has said he is “committed to buying and owning” the Gaza Strip and relocating the two million Palestinians living there, despite global…
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As Trump doubles down on Gaza plan, 69% of Israelis support idea despite concern
Nearly 70% of Israelis support President Donald Trump’s proposal to expel residents of the Gaza Strip to other countries, though most believe the plan is unrealistic, a recent poll by Channel 12 showed.
When asked, “Are you for or against Trump’s…
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Tunisian accused says cannot remember 2020 France church killings
A Tunisian man went on trial Monday accused of stabbing to death three people in a church in the southern French city of Nice in 2020, but his insistence that he had no recollection of the events provoked anger among relatives of the…
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