Fri 15 May 2026: PIF deal covers the 2026 World Cup being cohosted by US, Canada and Mexico, while Saudi Arabia is hosting 2034 edition. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has been named an official tournament supporter in North America and Asia for this year’s World Cup, as the country deepens its ties with […]
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Fri 15 May 2026: US President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinping told him that Beijing would not provide military equipment to Iran and expressed support for keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. “When you say ‘support,’ they’re not fighting a war with us or anything,” Trump said when asked if he discussed China’s support for Iran when he met Xi earlier […]
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Thu 14 May 2026: The Gulf country says its ties with Israel ‘are not based on secrecy or clandestine arrangements’. The United Arab Emirates has denied that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made what his office described as a “secret visit” to the Gulf country during the US-Israel war on Iran. In a statement carried […]
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Thu 14 May 2026: An estimated 43,000 people of the 172,000 injured in Gaza since October 2023 have sustained life-changing injuries, including around 10,000 children, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territory, said the updated estimates reflect the […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United Arab Emirates secretly during the US-Israeli war with Iran, The Times of Israel reported quoting Prime Minister’s office. Netanyahu met with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. “This visit led to a historic breakthrough in relations […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: Columnist says there was ‘no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes,’ but argued Israeli authorities had built ‘security apparatus where sexual violence has become,’ citing UN report, one of Israel’s ‘standard operating procedures’ A New York Times opinion columnist has alleged that Palestinian detainees have been subjected to widespread sexual violence […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: The United Kingdom says it will contribute a large arsenal of weaponry to the multinational mission aimed at securing the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement, the government said the weaponry would include drones, Typhoon fighter jets, a warship, an autonomous mine-hunting kit, Typhoon jets and the warship HMS Dragon. The […]
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Tue 12 May 2026: The US ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, says Israel sent Iron Dome missile defence batteries and Israeli troops to the United Arab Emirates to help it defend against Iranian attacks. Waltz first made the comment on Monday and was quoted by Israel Hayom newspaper as saying, “We saw the UAE […]
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Tue 12 May 2026: Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said on Sunday that the army needs more soldiers immediately,” amid the escalating crisis surrounding the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredim, and the continuation of military operations on several fronts, Anadolu reports. The remarks came in a meeting of the Knesset’s (parliament) Foreign Affairs and Security […]
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Mon 11 May 2026: “As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish he’d go away.” Scholars David Tyrer and Salman Sayyid open their 2012 essay on race and Islamophobia with this nursery rhyme about a haunting. Reading the British media […]
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