Thu 16 October 2025: On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled a new development near Mecca’s Grand Mosque, which will provide approximately 900,000 additional indoor and outdoor prayer spaces, according to the project’s implementing company. Spanning up to 12 million square meter gross floor area adjacent to the Grand Mosque, the project […]
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Thu 16 October 2025: Planning is under way for an international stabilisation force to go into Gaza, the Reuters news agency reports. “Right now what we’re looking to accomplish is just a basic stabilization of the situation. The international stabilization force is starting to be constructed,” it quoted an unnamed “senior US adviser” as saying. […]
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Thu 16 October 2025: President Cyril Ramaphosa says progress and healing hinge on the case against Israel being heard. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Gaza ceasefire will not affect his country’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Ramaphosa made the statement on Tuesday in Cape Town in parliament, […]
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Wed 15 October 2025: Handicap International says an estimated 70,000 tonnes of explosives have been dropped on Gaza since the start of the war, warning that returning civilians face severe danger amid a fragile ceasefire. Unexploded ordnance in Gaza poses “enormous” risks for displaced people returning home during the US-led ceasefire, the NGO Handicap International […]
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Wed 15 October 2025: Pope Leo XIV has ordered the delivery of 5,000 doses of antibiotics for children in Gaza as humanitarian aid begins to enter the enclave following two years of conflict, the Vatican has said. The initiative, carried out through the Office of Papal Charities, aims to provide urgent medical support for Gaza’s youngest victims, Vatican […]
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Tue 14 October 2025: The UK government has awarded £1 million funding to the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) — a group with links to the World Zionist Organisation which finances illegal Israeli settlements — to deliver “antisemitism training” across British universities. According to the Department for Education (DfE), the UJS will deliver around 600 […]
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Tue 14 October 2025: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday underscored the importance of Gaza reconstruction, pledging that Türkiye will take all necessary measures to address the humanitarian and shelter needs of Palestinians ahead of the winter, following a summit on Gaza in Egypt hosted by US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel […]
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Miriam Adelson (centre) waits for a speech by US President Donald Trump at the Knesset Tue 14 October 2025: Trump says the mega-donor, who spent more than $100m to help him win the 2024 US presidential election, ‘loves Israel’. As United States President Donald Trump addressed the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to celebrate the Gaza ceasefire […]
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Mon 13 October 2025: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu canceled his planned trip to the Sharm el-Sheikh summit after a dramatic intervention by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to Israel Hayom. The Israeli website reports that Erdogan phoned Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi mid-flight, warning that his plane “would not land if Netanyahu attended.” Erdogan’s […]
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Mon 13 October 2025: The twenty-point plan introduced by Donald Trump in the fall of 2025, presented as a solution to end the Gaza war, outwardly attempts to establish a framework for peace and reconstruction in the Middle East. However, beneath its surface, this plan is less of a peace proposal and more a sign […]
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