BEIRUT/NICOSIA (Reuters) -Lebanon and Cyprus signed a long-awaited maritime demarcation deal on Wednesday, paving the way for potential exploration of offshore gas fields and energy cooperation in the Mediterranean.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun…
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Israel launches new military operation in northern West Bank
JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli security forces on Wednesday launched what the military described as a counter-terrorism operation in the northern West Bank, which Palestinians said was targeting the city of Tubas.
Tubas Governor Ahmed…
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Kremlin aide Ushakov says he and Witkoff will be in touch about their leaked call
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday that he will be in touch with U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff about the purported leak of a phone conversation between the two men, which he called unacceptable.
Ushakov was asked…
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Body of Dror Or, devoted father and Be’eri cheesemaker, returned to Israel from Gaza
Remains of captive, whose wife was slain on October 7, handed over exactly two years after two of his children, Noam and Alma, were freed from Hamas captivity
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Iraqi MP disqualified over fake PMF brigade creation
Iraqi MP disqualified over fake PMF brigade creation | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastMuhannad al-Khazraji, the recently elected member of parliament, had run under the banner of the Badr Organization, which is a large pro-Iranian…
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‘At Most Leo May Be Bothered by Israeli Drones Overhead’: Pope Makes First Foreign Trip to Lebanon, Turkey
Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon that would be delicate under any circumstances but is even more fraught given Middle East tensions and the media glare that will document history’s first…
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Construction of first US-backed housing compound said to begin this week in Rafah
NY Times report outlines American eagerness to move ahead with plan to build ‘alternative safe communities’ of temporary structures on Israeli side of Yellow Line dividing Gaza
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Jordanian forces kill suspects in northern raid
Jordanian forces kill suspects in northern raid | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Middle EastRamtha is located in northern Jordan near the border with Syria. Over the last decade, it has been a transit area for many Syrian refugees and displaced…
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Vast trove of medieval Jewish records opened up by AI
By Hannah Confino
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts stretching back a thousand years into a new transcription tool that uses artificial…
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UK ban on pro-Palestine group under scrutiny in court
LONDON (Reuters) -The British government’s decision to ban pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation will be challenged in court on Wednesday, with lawyers representing a co-founder arguing it is a misuse of…
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