Sun 13 October 2024: Hamas tried to persuade its two allies, Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, to join its October 7, 2023, attack against Israel or at least commit to a broader fight if the Palestinian militant group staged a surprise cross-border raid, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Saturday, citing the […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: A university professor close to the Iranian establishment has been summoned by the judiciary after alleging on state television that an Iranian intermediary bought the Hezbollah pagers that exploded last month. During a live Iranian state TV broadcast, Masoud Asadollahi, a former deputy commander of the IRGC Quds Force and a professor […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: Israeli data revealed a sharp increase in immigration from Israel abroad since the beginning of the year, reaching a level three times more than the immigration rates prior to the war. Israel’s Maariv newspaper reported that the first seven months of the year witnessed the immigration of 40,000 Israelis, equivalent to three times the […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: Iran has banned pagers and walkie-talkies on all flights, local media reported Saturday, weeks after deadly sabotage attacks in Lebanon which were blamed on Israel. “The entry of any electronic communication device, except mobile phones, in flight cabins or … in non-accompanied cargo, has been banned,” ISNA news agency reported, citing […]
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All the evidence suggests that the ship sank after a battle in the second half of the 17th century. / Photo: AA Sun 13 October 2024: The wreck yields 14 Janissary rifles, approximately 2,500 lead marbles, exploded cannonballs and sets of blue-painted porcelain bowls thought to have been made in China for Islamic markets. […]
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Photo: One of the ballistic missiles Iran fired to into Israeli towns and cities. Sat 12 October 2024: Diplomatic sources revealed on Friday that Iran has finally conveyed a message to Israel, through European intermediaries, regarding its potential response to any future Israeli attack, Asharq Al-Awsat reported. According to the sources, “the Iranian communication, primarily […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: Washington’s envoy to Baghdad denounces Israeli broadcast that portrays Shia leader as a target for assassination. US slams ‘suggestion of targeting’ Muslim scholar al-Sistani by Israeli TV The United States ambassador to Iraq, Alina Romanowski, has denounced featuring Shia spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on an apparent hit list by Israel’s Channel […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: The World Food Program (WFP) warned Thursday that the threat of famine persists in Gaza amid tragedy and suffering in the Palestinian enclave. “As another winter approaches, every day is a struggle for survival. Hunger remains rampant and the threat of famine persists,” the UN agency said on X. It expressed […]
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Sat 12 October 2024: Gaza is home to the largest number of amputee children in modern history, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday. Director of the Financing and Partnerships Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Lisa Doughten, said women and children are hard-hit by the trauma of the […]
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Fri 11 October 2024: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned on Friday that an Israeli strike on Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities would constitute a “serious provocation.” Speaking at a news conference in Vientiane, Laos, Lavrov emphasized that despite the rising tensions, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which closely monitors Iran’s nuclear activities, has not reported […]
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