Wed 08 January 2025: Israel said, on Tuesday, pressure groups were pushing foreign courts to take action against Israelis over alleged war crimes in Gaza but described the actions as “propaganda activity” and said no warrants had been issued, Reuters reports. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defence Minister, […]
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Wed 08 January 2025: Trump does not rule out US military force to retake Panama Canal while doubling down on Gaza threats in broad-ranging news conference. United States President-elect Donald Trump has hinted at possible military intervention in the Americas and the Middle East, as well as other items on his foreign policy agenda, during […]
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Wed 08 January 2025: Consumer price index data from the GCC Statistical Centre shows general inflation rate in the GCC region grew 1.5 per cent year-on-year through the end of September 2024, Oman News Agency reports. According to the report, the Centre forecast inflation rates in the GCC countries to hover between 2.4, 2.6 and 2.1 per […]
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Wed 08 January 2025: The US will redirect to Lebanon $95 million in military aid previously allocated to Egypt, propping up the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) amid ongoing tensions with resistance movement Hezbollah and efforts to maintain a ceasefire with Israel, according to US officials. A source familiar with the matter told Al Arabiya that the funds are part […]
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Tue 07 January 2025: Ireland has submitted a declaration to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. “Ireland, invoking Article 63 of the Statute of the Court, filed in the Registry of the Court a declaration of intervention in the case concerning Application of the Convention […]
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Tue 07 January 2025: An Israeli government commission warned that Turkey’s support for a hostile “Sunni Islamist” group in Damascus may represent a larger threat to Israel than Iran in Syria. Ankara has benefited significantly from the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s administration in Syria last month, following a rebel offensive led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham […]
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Tue 07 January 2025: Syria will receive two electricity-generating ships from Turkiye and Qatar to boost energy supplies hit by damage to infrastructure during President Bashar Al-Assad’s rule, state news agency, SANA, quoted an official as saying on Tuesday, Reuters reports. Khaled Abu Dai, director general of the General Establishment for Electricity Transmission and Distribution, told SANA the ships would provide […]
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Tue 07 January 2025: Poverty has affected 22 to 27 percent of Iran’s population, the head of the state-run Institute of Labor and Social Welfare warned on Sunday as the country’s economic outlook grows increasingly grim. Ebrahim Sadeghifar said almost one in every four Iranians struggles to meet their basic essential needs. “Today, poverty in […]
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Tue 07 January 2025: Washington opens the way for transactions needed for humanitarian purposes in a move seen as an ‘important step’ towards easing the West’s sanctions. The United States has announced it is easing select restrictions on Syria’s transitional government. Late on Monday, the US Treasury issued a general licence, lasting six months, that […]
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Tue 07 January 2025: More than 82,000 Israelis have left the country in 2024 amid Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, official figures showed on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics said that 82,700 people left Israel in 2024, while 23,800 returned to the country. The bureau did not specify […]
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