Critics say the Houthis’ blacklisting will hamper aid delivery in the war-torn country.
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US formally rebrands Yemen's Houthis as foreign terrorist organization
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Prices of food surge in Gaza after humanitarian aid halted – Israel News
Flour and vegetable prices in Gaza have surged more than 100-fold after Israel shut border crossings, preventing the delivery of supplies, the United Nations said Monday.
The closure follows Israel’s decision to halt aid in an effort to…
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Trump administration again labels Houthis ‘terrorist organization’
WASHINGTON —The U.S. State Department on Tuesday reinstated the “foreign terrorist organization” designation for Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi group, fulfilling an order announced by President Donald Trump shortly after he took…
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Saudi Arabia’s Aramco reports 12% drop in profit
Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, reported a 12% drop in net profit for 2024 on Tuesday. After earning $121.3 billion in 2023, Aramco earned $106.3 billion in 2024, resulting in a lower payout for the kingdom, which relies…
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Israel Cuts Power to Two Gaza Desalination Plants – Thousands Deprived of Water
Displaced Palestinian children fetching water in southern Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle) By Palestine Chronicle Staff
The plants produce about 20,000 cubic meters of desalinated water daily which supply about 70…
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Syria interim president seeks pressure on Israel to withdraw from south
Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Tuesday called on the international community to pressure Israel to “immediately” withdraw its troops from the south, as he attended his first Arab summit since assuming office.
Since Sharaa’s Islamist…
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Tunisia puts opposition figures on mass trial decried as ‘absurdity’
The trial of several prominent Tunisian opposition figures accused of national security offences opened on Tuesday, with lawyers and relatives denouncing the case as politically motivated.
The around 40 high-profile defendants include activists,…
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Syria interim president joins Arab summit on Gaza
Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa was in Cairo Tuesday for an Arab League summit on Gaza, his first such meeting since ousting longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad nearly three months ago.
Sharaa arrived “to attend the extraordinary Arab summit…
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Songs chosen by Yarden BIbas for funeral tops Israeli charts – Israel News
As the hostages, both dead and alive, returned home in the recent deal, it felt like all of Israel was one family. Perhaps nothing illustrates that better than the fact that the songs that the released hostage Yarden Bibas played at the…
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3 hours after 1st wave of terrorists was repelled, massacre and kidnappings began
A small team from the undercover counterterrorism unit, stationed at Kibbutz Nahal Oz as part of preparations for border protests, played a key role in preventing a large-scale massacre on October 7, 2023.
The kibbutz, located just a few hundred…Continue Reading
