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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock cautioned on Tuesday that "miscalculation" could trigger all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, urging the need for "extreme restraint" as tensions soar. Israel and Hezbollah have traded near-daily cross-border fire since Israel began its war on the Gaza Strip. "With every rocket across the Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel, the danger grows that a miscalculation could trigger a hot war," Baerbock said on X during a visit to Beirut, referring to the demarcation line between Israel and Lebanon. "All who bear responsibility must exercise...
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Ten children per day are losing one or both of their legs due to Israel's war on Gaza, the head of the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees said Tuesday. "Basically we have every day 10 children who are losing one leg or two legs on average," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told reporters in Geneva. Citing figures from the UN children's agency UNICEF, he said that number "does not even include the arms and the hands, and we have many more" of these. "Ten per day, that means around 2,000 children after the more than 260 days of this brutal war," Lazzarini said. He said amputation often take...
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The United States unveiled sweeping sanctions Tuesday against almost 50 individuals and companies it says were part of a "shadow banking" network that moved billions of dollars for Iran's military. The sanctions target a network of Iranian exchange houses and foreign firms that enabled Iran's defense ministry and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to disguise revenues generated abroad, the Treasury Department said in a statement. Revenue was used to procure and develop advanced weapons systems like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and also fund regional proxies including Yemen's Houthi r...
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A Kuwaiti court on Monday sentenced a former member of parliament to four years in prison with hard labour after he posted a tweet on X criticising the dissolution of the country’s parliament. Walid Al-Tabtabai was found guilty of "transgressing against the rights and authorities of the Emir of Kuwait". Kuwaiti Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah dissolved the National Assembly on 10 May, only one month after it was elected and before it had even met. He also suspended parts of the constitution. Tabtabai tweeted that this was “unacceptable” and said that other countries had influenced the decision, ...
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The Czech Republic will lead a fact-finding mission to Syria to set up "safe zones" to which Syrians in Europe and the Middle East would be able to return, the UAE-based website The National reported on Monday. Cyprus, an EU state which lies just across the Mediterranean from Syria is also reportedly taking part. The mission comes amid increasing worry among Syrians in Europe and other parts of the world about their refugee status, with Denmark in particular implementing draconian policies claiming that parts of Syria are safe and sending Syrians on its territory to “return centres”. Human rig...
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Iranians choose a president on Friday in a tightly controlled election following Ebrahim Raisi's death in a helicopter crash last month, with the outcome expected to influence the succession to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's top decision-maker. With Iran's supreme leader now 85, it is likely that the next president will be closely involved in the eventual process of choosing a successor to Khamenei, who has ensured candidates sharing his hardline views dominate the presidential contest. The election coincides with escalating regional tensions due to Israel's war on Gaza, increased Western pres...
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UN agencies sounded the alarm about war-torn Gaza on Tuesday, saying that 10 children a day are losing one or both legs and half a million Palestinians suffer "catastrophic" hunger. There was no let-up in Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip, as it maintained the siege on the territory's 2.4 million people. An AFP correspondent witnessed a strike that killed five people, including two children, near Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, leaving the corpses scattered in a pool of blood. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in a briefing in Geneva warned of the war's di...
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Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly vowed on Tuesday to end a nationwide power crisis, further exacerbated by recent unplanned blackouts, that have triggered widespread discontent towards his government. During an afternoon press conference aired on national TV, Madoubly apologised to the Egyptian people for the sustained inconveniences, saying that the country would import petroleum products used for power generation worth about US$ 1.8 billion in a bid to end the ongoing ordeal by the end of this year. Even though the government had earlier declared a schedule for planned power cuts to a...
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On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the end of the "intense stage" in the war on Gaza, with a pull-out of troops from the devastated Palestinian enclave toward Israel's border with Lebanon, where clashes with Hezbollah have been ongoing for eight months. The comments sparked fears that Lebanon could be next in Israel's crosshairs, with a build up of troops in the border region coinciding with chilling remarks by Israeli politicians about plans for a military assault on the country, and shuttle diplomacy by US officials to try prevent an escalation in the Middle East ...
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The closure of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza has prevented the medical evacuations of at least 2,000 patients, a World Health Organization official said on Tuesday, calling for Rafah and other routes to be reopened. Before the closure, "approximately 50 critical patients a day left Gaza ... It means that since the 7th of May at least 2,000 people have been unable to leave Gaza to receive medical care," said Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The Rafah crossing was the main conduit for evacuations as well as for humanitarian aid earlier in the war...
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