Wed 03 June 2026: Iran’s national football team players have received Mexican visas ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the state broadcaster IRIB reported on Wednesday. IRIB quoted Iran’s ambassador to Türkiye, Mohammad Hassan Habibollahzadeh, as saying that the visas were issued following consultations with the Mexican Embassy in Ankara. “The visas for Iran’s […]
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Wed 03 June 2026: The World Food Programme (WFP) has informed 600,000 Palestinian families in Gaza that their personal information was exposed in a “security-related incident”, according to The New Humanitarian news organisation. According to a statement provided to The New Humanitarian by the WFP, the data that was accessed came from a “self-registration application […]
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Tue 02 June 2026: Exports from Israel’s defence sector grew nearly 30 percent in 2025 to a record $19.2bn, led by missile, rocket and air defence systems, the Defence Ministry says. It said Israel’s defence export record was broken for a fifth consecutive year, more than doubling in five years and quadrupling in a decade. […]
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Tue 02 June 2026: An exclusive investigation by Middle East Eye last week revealed that both US and Israel were coordinating to remove Jordan’s custodianship over Islam’s third holiest site. This is not a diplomatic manoeuvre. It is the culmination of a systematic campaign to erase the Islamic presence in Occupied Jerusalem and a direct […]
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Mon 01 June 2026: A provision in the 2027 draft US defence bill could bind the two countries’ weapons industries closer than ever. A provision in a bill before the United States Congress could tie the US and Israeli militaries far more closely together, deepening their cooperation on weapons research, production and technology. The proposal, […]
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Mon 01 June 2026: Not all data centres are back online while internet protocols remain blocked, restricted or ‘whitelisted’. Tehran, Iran – Authorities in Iran have reinstated some internet access three months after taking the country offline at the start of the war with the United States and Israel, but restrictions remain in place for most people. The […]
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Sat 30 May 2026: The Syrian National Commission Concludes Dr. Rania al-Abbasi’s Children Died in Assad Regime Detention Syria’s National Commission for Missing Persons announced on Saturday that it has reached what it described as “reliable and corroborated findings” allowing it to conclude, with a high degree of professional certainty, that the six children of […]
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Sat 30 May 2026: The Israeli army has advanced into villages located north of the Litani River and reached the outskirts of Nabatieh city in southern Lebanon, a senior Lebanese military source told Anadolu on Saturday. The Israeli forces “have reached villages and towns north of the Litani River, including Zawtar al-Sharqiyah and Shqif Arnoun, […]
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Sat 30 May 2026: Muslim pilgrims on Saturday concluded their annual Hajj pilgrimage with the farewell circumambulation at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, western Saudi Arabia. The pilgrimage was concluded in “an atmosphere of faith filled with tranquility,” Saudi state-run TV Al-Ekhbariya reported. On Tuesday, the Saudi statistics authority said the total number of pilgrims […]
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Fri 29 May 2026: Israeli and Russian security forces have been added to a United Nations blacklist on sexual violence in conflict, according to a report reviewed Thursday by AFP. Last August, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Israel and Russia of possible inclusion on the list, but “incidents and patterns of sexual violence continued to […]
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