Mon 22 December 2025: Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI ‘from passive tool to active partner in journalism’. Al Jazeera Media Network is launching a new integrative artificial intelligence (AI) model in collaboration with Google Cloud. Al Jazeera said on Sunday that it was expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud […]
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Sun 21 December 2025: Israel’s High Court has given the state until January 4 to respond to a petition filed by the Foreign Press Association seeking free media access to Gaza, saying this will be the final deadline after several delays. “If the respondents [Israeli authorities] do not inform us of their position by that […]
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Sun 21 December 2025: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to present President Donald Trump with a package of military options for dealing with Iran during their meeting Dec. 29 in the US state of Florida, Israel’s public broadcaster KAN reported Saturday. The broadcaster, citing informed sources who spoke to NBC News, said Netanyahu […]
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Israel is currently maintaining 48 military outposts east of the yellow line. Image by Forensic Architecture. Sun 21 December 2025: Since the ceasefire, Israel has constructed at least 13 new military outposts inside Gaza, consolidated existing military infrastructure, built roads, and destroyed more Palestinian property. Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on […]
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Sat 20 December 2025: More than 1,000 patients have died while waiting for urgent medical evacuation from war-ravaged Gaza in the last year and a half, the World Health Organization said. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday on X that the UN agency and its partners had “evacuated over 10,600 patients from Gaza […]
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Fri 19 December 2025: According to media reports on Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Chew informed employees in an internal memo that the company has signed an agreement to transfer its US operations to a new joint venture led by American entities, in a bid to ensure the app’s continued availability in the United States. The […]
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Fri 19 December 2025: A growing share of Republican voters in the United States believe that Washington should end its decades-long programme of taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel, a new poll reveals. The figures are much higher among Democrat voters where the decline in support for Israel is unprecedented. Conducted by YouGov and the Institute […]
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Fri 19 December 2025: Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people. Can you recognise these Arabic words that have made their way into English? Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native speakers and 200 million to 250 million non-native speakers. […]
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Thu 18 December 2025: Italy and Indonesia have agreed in principle to send forces to a proposed international stabilization force (ISF) in the Gaza Strip, on the condition that there is no direct contact with Hamas, the Israeli newspaper Israel Today reported Tuesday. The paper added that US officials are due to hold a conference in the Qatari […]
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Thu 18 December 2025: In 1916, the Middle East was partitioned by its rulers with ink between Britain and France. A hundred years later, with borders drawn by the Sykes-Picot Agreement, territories continue to contend with claims to legitimacy, sovereignty, and foreign intervention. The Middle East holds a reset, but not in a conference room […]
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