Berlin has deployed several Special Forces units to Cyprus as it prepares for “all scenarios” in the Middle East, Bild reports FILE PHOTO: Members of the GSG 9 Special Forces unit of the German Federal Police. © Global Look Press / dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd The German government has decided to deploy some of the nation’s top Special Forces units to Cyprus …
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The Gaza hospital “massacre” should not be tolerated by the international community, Authority leaders insisted Palestinians bring wounded to the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, October 18, 2023 © AP / Ali Mahmoud Palestinian officials have called on the nations of the world to step in and prevent the “deliberate genocide” of their people by Israel after hundreds were …
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US President Joe Biden embraces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. Evan Vucci/AP Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Abu Dhabi, UAECNN — Some of the United States’ closest Arab …
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The strike on a Gaza Strip hospital that killed more than 600 Palestinians has sparked protests and riots in several Muslim-majority countries on Tuesday night, including Lebanon, Jordan, and Türkiye. Beirut In Beirut, where the pro-Palestinian militant group Hezbollah has called for “a day of unprecedented anger,” protesters gathered in front of the U.S. embassy building in the Awkar neighborhood. …
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Israel will have to vacate its occupied territories and make space for a state of Palestine, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar. This crushing defeat for the U.S. will mark the end of its global dominance. A flag bearer leading the triumphal Arab entry into Akaba after the defeat of Ottoman defending forces, 1917. (T E Lawrence and the Arab Revolt 1916 – 1918, …
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At this point, Washington’s defense of Israel becomes as baldly obscene as the apartheid state’s long record of lawless aggression toward the Palestinian population. Man with body bags in Jabalia, Gaza Strip, Oct. 9. (Bashar Taleb, Palestinian News & Information Agency, or Wafa, in contract with APAimages, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News There have been many, very …
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