ISRAELI ARMY DEPLOYS UNDERTRAINED SOLDIERS TO GAZA AMID TROOP SHORTAGE

Mon 21 April 2025: The Israeli military has deployed insufficiently trained soldiers from its elite Golani and Givati brigades to the Gaza Strip amid a critical shortage of troops, Israel’s public broadcaster KAN reported Sunday. The recruits have been sent to the battlefield since last December, it said. The move reflects the growing strain on […]

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POPE DECRIES ‘DEPLORABLE’ GAZA SITUATION IN BRIEF EASTER APPEARANCE

Sun 20 April 2025: Pope Francis, still recovering from pneumonia and watching silently from St. Peter’s Basilica balcony, renewed his appeal for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza through an Easter Sunday message delivered by an aide. The 88-year-old pope, limiting his workload on doctors’ orders, did not preside over the Vatican’s Mass for Easter but […]

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ARAB WORLD VOICE CONCERN OVER FAR-RIGHT ISRAELI THREATS AIMED AT BLOWING UP AL-AQSA MOSQUE

Sun 20 April 2025: Arab countries strongly condemned on Saturday the circulation of an AI-generated video by extremist Israeli platforms showing the destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, and the construction of the so-called Third Temple in their place. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the video, “Next Year in Jerusalem,” […]

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IRAN, US REPORT PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR TALKS, CONFIRM THIRD ROUND NEXT WEEK

Sun 20 April 2025 Iran and the United States both report progress after a second round of indirect nuclear negotiations, which Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi describes as “constructive”, and say they will hold further meetings in the coming week. Technical experts will be meeting in the coming days, suggesting movement in negotiations, before the […]

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ISRAEL STILL EYEING A LIMITED ATTACK ON IRAN’S NUCLEAR FACILITIES

Sat 19 April 2025: Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming months despite President Donald Trump telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. was for now unwilling to support such a move, according to an Israeli official and two other people familiar with the matter. Israeli officials have vowed to […]

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GAZA: 200,000 PATIENTS FACE DEATH DUE TO CROSSINGS CLOSURE

Sat 19 April 2025: The Palestinian Ministry of Health has warned that 200,000 people with chronic illnesses are at life-threatening risk due to the continued closure of crossings by Israeli forces, which threatens the functioning of hospitals across the Strip. Khalil Al-Daqran, spokesperson for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, described the healthcare situation in […]

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US CLAIMS CHINESE SATELLITE COMPANY AIDS HOUTHI ATTACKS ON AMERICAN INTERESTS

Fri 18 April 2025: The US State Department on Thursday accused a Chinese firm, Chang Guang Satellite Technology, of directly supporting attacks on US interests by Iran-backed Houthi fighters and called this “unacceptable”. Earlier, the Financial Times cited US officials as saying that the satellite company, linked to China’s military, was supplying Houthi rebels with imagery to […]

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US BEGINS PULLING HUNDREDS OF TROOPS FROM SYRIA AMID SHIFTING SECURITY DYNAMICS

Fri 18 April 2025: The U.S. has begun withdrawing hundreds of troops from northeastern Syria, adapting to the evolving security landscape following President Bashar al-Assad’s ousting in December, New York Times reported. The military is closing three of its eight small bases in the region—M.S.S. Green Village, M.S.S. Euphrates, and a smaller site—reducing troop numbers […]

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UAE, SAUDI ARABIA DENY REPORTS OF INVOLVEMENT IN TALKS ABOUT LAND OFFENSIVE IN YEMEN

Fri 18 April 2025: The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, denied media reports they were involved in talks with the US over a possible land offensive by military factions in Yemen against the Houthi group that controls much of the country, Anadolu Agency reports. A senior UAE official dismissed the reports, calling them unsubstantiated, […]

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