Sun 07 December 2025: Hamas said Saturday it was ready to hand over its weapons in the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian authority governing the territory on the condition that the Israeli army’s occupation ends. “Our weapons are linked to the existence of the occupation and the aggression,” Hamas chief negotiator and its Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya said in a statement, adding: […]
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Sun 07 December 2025: Last week the 2025 chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, Ahmed Bin Sulayem, had an article published extolling the benefits of the scheme. He must have had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek when he sent the article for publication. Despite the bullish headline, integrity was missing from the outset. If, […]
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Sat 06 December 2025: Al Arabiya-released video shows ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad laughing off Ghouta with the words “to hell with it” to his advisor. In the video, which shows al-Assad driving in an unknown location in Syria, Luna al-Shibl asks the former president: “We are about to leave Ghouta, what will we say,” […]
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Sat 06 December 2025: Ousted Syrian leader’s former spy chief and billionaire cousin scheme to destabilise Syria with armed violence. Former loyalists to deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad are funnelling millions of dollars to tens of thousands of potential fighters in a bid to start uprisings against the country’s fledgling government, a Reuters investigation has found. The […]
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Sat 06 December 2025: The Arab region faced its hottest year on record in 2024, with temperatures rising at twice the global average and extreme weather causing mounting social and economic disruption, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday. The first State of the Climate in the Arab Region report released by the WMO said the […]
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Sat 06 December 2025: Nestor Owomuhangi, the UN Population Fund’s representative to Palestine, says the truce between Israel and Hamas “was desperately needed but it is not an end to the war for women and girls” in the Gaza Strip. Speaking during a UN briefing via video-link from Gaza, Owomuhangi said most Palestinian families in […]
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Fri 05 December 2025: The Israeli army faces “the worst manpower crisis in its history” amid a severe shortage in personnel, Israeli reserve general and military analyst Itzhak Brik said Sunday. In an opinion piece in the daily Maariv, Brik said thousands of officers and non-commissioned officers avoided service in recent months, either by refusing […]
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Thu 04 December 2025: A shadow lobbying effort to influence American media and politics on behalf of Israel has been uncovered through a trove of leaked emails, raising serious legal questions under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The documents details of which is reported by Responsible Stagecraft, expose how the group Act For Israel, […]
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Wed 03 December 2025: The city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip hosted a mass wedding Tuesday for 54 couples in a celebration supported by Abu Dhabi as part of events marking the UAE’s 54th Union Day. The ceremony, held in the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Hamad residential area, was organized […]
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Wed 03 December 2025: Defiance of compulsory veiling is now widespread in Iran, the Associated Press reported, after a government-approved visit in November found women and girls appearing in public without headscarves in one of the most visible social shifts since Mahsa Amini’s death in 2022. The outlet’s journalists observed women and girls moving openly […]
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