ISTANBUL: Turkish prosecutors have asked a court to jail Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and four of his aides pending trial on terrorism and corruption charges, Imamoglu’s office said, as thousands of people across the nation protest what they call his undemocratic detention.
Imamoglu, a key opposition figure and potential challenger to President Tayyip Erdogan, was detained on Wednesday for charges such as graft and aiding a terrorist group.
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Hamas leader Salah al-Bardawil and his wife were killed in an Israeli airstrike, part of a broader attack that has claimed the lives of at least 32 Palestinians.
Palestinian and international media reported that Salah al-Bardawil, a top political figure in Hamas, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Quds News, Reuters, and other media outlets stated that…
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Sun, Mar 23, 1:27 PM (Palestine Time)
WASHINGTON POST (citing Israeli officials):
Awaiting the results of ceasefire talks, with no decision yet on escalating the current phase.
Ready to negotiate with Hamas through mediators before launching any large-scale invasion.
Occupying Gaza requires 5 military brigades, exhausting the army, with reserve soldiers skeptical about engaging in an…
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MOSCOW : The Kremlin on Sunday downplayed expectations for a rapid resolution to the Ukraine conflict, saying talks were just beginning and that “difficult negotiations” were ahead.
Delegations from Russia and Ukraine are set to hold separate talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia over the next 48 hours as President Donald Trump pushes for a rapid end to more than three years of fighting.
“We are only at the beginning of this path,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian…
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JERUSALEM: The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned on Sunday an Israeli decision to recognize more than a dozen new settlements in the occupied West Bank, upgrading existing neighborhoods to independent settlement status.
The decision by Israel’s security cabinet was a show of “disregard for international legitimacy and its resolutions,” said a statement from the Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry.
The West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967,…
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Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli officials are reportedly surprised by recent statements from U.S. envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Witkoff suggested that Washington no longer shares Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s views on the conflict, negotiations, and Qatar’s role in the region.
According to sources cited by Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel was surprised by the messages Witkoff conveyed in his…
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The US has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government, officials in Kabul said Sunday.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, who acknowledged planning a January 2008 attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul, which killed six people, including US citizen Thor David Hesla, no longer appears on the State Department’s Rewards for…
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The US has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government, officials in Kabul said Sunday.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, who acknowledged planning a January 2008 attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul, which killed six people, including US citizen Thor David Hesla, no longer appears on the State Department’s Rewards for…
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DEIR AL-BALAH: Israeli strikes across the southern Gaza Strip killed at least 26 Palestinians overnight into Sunday, including a Hamas political leader and several women and children. The military sent ground troops into part of the southern city of Rafah as thousands of Palestinians heeded new evacuation orders.
Gaza’s…
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Gaza (Quds News Network)- Hamas political bureau member Hussam Badran confirmed, speaking to Quds News Network that indirect negotiations with Israel continue daily through mediators. He emphasized Hamas’ commitment to the January 17 agreement and noted that various proposals are being discussed to resume its implementation.
Speaking exclusively to Quds News Network, Badran dismissed U.S. Middle East envoy Steven Wietkoff’s proposal to disarm Hamas. “As long as the occupation…
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