Middle East

Middle East

Medicine critically low due to Gaza aid block

Medicine stocks are critically low due to the aid block in Gaza, making it hard to keep hospitals even partially operational, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

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Iran vows ‘good faith’ in nuke talks with US

Iran said yesterday it was giving high-level nuclear talks with the United States today “a genuine chance”, after President Donald Trump threatened bombing if discussions failed.

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‘Everything gets mowed down’

Israeli troops flattened farmland and cleared entire residential districts in Gaza to open a “kill zone” around the enclave, according to a report published yesterday that quoted soldiers testifying about the harsh methods used in the operation.

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37 more Gazans killed in Israeli strikes

At least 37 people, including a journalist, were killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza yesterday as French President Emmanuel Macron said that he strongly opposes any displacement of Palestinians or annexation in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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Nuke deal / Iran rejects US’s direct talks offer

Iran’s top diplomat has dismissed direct negotiations with the United States as pointless over nuclear talks, his office said yesterday.

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Wave of Israeli strikes kill at least 46 in Gaza

A wave of Israeli strikes on Gaza yesterday targeted residential buildings and makeshift tents sheltering forcibly displaced families, killing at least 46 people.

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Iran VP fired over Antarctica trip

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian yesterday dismissed his deputy for parliamentary affairs over a costly trip to Antarctica, as the country grapples with hyperinflation amid a biting economic crisis.

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Israel ‘deliberately’ attacked Gaza aid workers

A video recovered from the cellphone of an aid worker killed in Gaza alongside other rescuers shows their final moments, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, with clearly marked ambulances and emergency lights flashing as heavy gunfire erupts.

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Israel threatens to annex parts of Gaza

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz yesterday threatened to annex parts of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages held in the war-battered Palestinian territory.

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Hamas urges Muslim nations to act to end Gaza ‘genocide’

Hamas has called on Arab and Muslim nations to take urgent action to halt Israel’s renewed offensive on Gaza, saying they had a “direct moral and political responsibility” to “end the genocide”.

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US threats ‘will get them nowhere’: Khamenei

Iran’s supreme leader yesterday said that US threats against his country “will get them nowhere” after President Donald Trump warned of possible military action against the Islamic Republic.

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At least 91 killed in Gaza as Israel abandons ceasefire, orders evacuations

After two months of relative calm, Gazans were again fleeing for their lives after Israel effectively abandoned a ceasefire

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970 killed in Gaza in 48 hours

At least 183 children among the dead; thousands flee after new evacuation order.

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Iran ‘will be held responsible’ for Huthi attacks

Yemen’s Huthis yesterday said they carried out their third attack on American warships in 48 hours, after US President Donald Trump declared he will hold Iran directly responsible for any future attacks by the Tehran-backed rebels.

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Israel shatters truce, kills 413 Gazans

Israeli airstrikes yesterday killed more than 400 people in Gaza, shattering a fragile ceasefire and drawing global condemnation.

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Israel military says Gaza air strikes hit militants trying to plant explosives

The Israeli military said it launched air strikes in central and southern Gaza on Monday targeting militants attempting to plant explosives near Israeli forces stationed in the territory.

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Iran says ‘committed’ to cooperating with UN nuclear watchdog

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said Monday that his country was “committed” to cooperating with the UN’s nuclear agency after meeting with its chief, Rafael Grossi.

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US strikes kill 31 in Yemen

Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthis yesterday vowed to meet “escalation with escalation” after a wave of deadly US air strikes, with witnesses to the bombing saying they were taken aback by its intensity, even after years of war.

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