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  • Iraqis find Ramadan joy in centuries-old ring game

    Iraqis find Ramadan joy in centuries-old ring game

    Baghdad: In a Baghdad arena, a crowd cheers to the rhythm of drums, not for a football match but for a fiery centuries-old game enjoyed by Iraqis during Ramadan called “mheibes.”
    “It’s a heritage game, the game of our ancestors, which unites all Iraqis,” said Jassem Al-Aswad, a longtime mheibes champion in his early seventies and now president of the game’s national federation.
    The game involves members of one team hiding a ring — “mehbis” in Arabic — and the captain of…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • The Pentagon’s DEI purge: Officials describe a scramble to remove and then restore online content

    The Pentagon’s DEI purge: Officials describe a scramble to remove and then restore online content

    WASHINGTON: Every day over the past few weeks, the Pentagon has faced questions from angry lawmakers, local leaders and citizens over the removal of military heroes and historic mentions from Defense Department websites and social media pages after it purged online content that promoted women or minorities.
    In response, the department has scrambled to restore a handful of those posts as their removals have come to light. While the pages of some well-known veterans, including baseball and…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Chinese to pursue ‘correct’ path of globalization

    Chinese to pursue ‘correct’ path of globalization

    BEIJING: China’s number two leader told a gathering of business executives in Beijing on Sunday that the country would “adhere to the correct direction of economic globalization” in the face of “fragmentation.”
    The China Development Forum convenes amid a renewed trade war with Washington, with the return of Donald Trump to the White House threatening China’s booming exports.
    Beijing has been seeking to steer a shaky economy onto a more stable path since the end of the pandemic,…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Canada’s new PM Carney will run in Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament

    Canada’s new PM Carney will run in Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament

    TORONTO: New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will run in an Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament for the first time, the Liberal Party announced Saturday, a day before Carney triggers an early general election before a vote on April 28.
    The election will take place against the backdrop of a trade war and sovereignty threats from US President Donald Trump.

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Turkish prosecutors demand Istanbul mayor Imamoglu to be jailed pending trial

    Turkish prosecutors demand Istanbul mayor Imamoglu to be jailed pending trial

    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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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Israeli Airstrikes Kill Hamas Leader Salah al-Bardawil, Scores of Others in Gaza

    Israeli Airstrikes Kill Hamas Leader Salah al-Bardawil, Scores of Others in Gaza

    Salah al-Bardawil, a top political figure in Hamas. (Photo: via Al-Jazeera Arabic Website)

    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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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • LIVE BLOG: Massacres in Khan Yunis, Rafah | Political Crisis in Israel Deepens – Day 534

    LIVE BLOG: Massacres in Khan Yunis, Rafah | Political Crisis in Israel Deepens – Day 534

    Sun, Mar 23, 1:27 PM (Palestine Time)

    Israeli Officials: Ready to Negotiate with Hamas

    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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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • Kremlin says ‘difficult negotiations’ ahead on Ukraine

    Kremlin says ‘difficult negotiations’ ahead on Ukraine

    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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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Military pressure will bring hostages back from Gaza, Netanyahu adviser says

    Military pressure will bring hostages back from Gaza, Netanyahu adviser says


    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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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Israel Surprised by U.S. Shift on Gaza and Hamas, Report

    Israel Surprised by U.S. Shift on Gaza and Hamas, Report

    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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    News Source: qudsnen.co