After Iran’s leadership lashed out at President Donald Trump’s recent castigating remarks about the country’s energy crisis, key industrial units said they were on the verge of full bankruptcy due to government-ordered blackouts.
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Saudi and Qatari payments settle Syria’s arrears, allowing World Bank and IMF to re-engage.
The World Bank says it will restart operations in Syria following a 14-year pause after the country cleared more than $15m of debt with financial backing from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The United States-based institution announced on Friday that Syria no longer has outstanding obligations to the International Development Association (IDA), its fund dedicated to low-income countries.
Earlier this week,…
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United States House Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill”, a wide-ranging tax and spending legislation, is at a crucial moment.
The nearly 400-page legislation proposes sweeping changes which include extending the 2017 tax cuts, slashing taxes for businesses and individuals, and enacting deep cuts to social programmes like Medicaid and SNAP.
While Republicans tout the bill as a boon for economic growth and middle-class relief, nonpartisan analysts warn it could add trillions to the…
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Washington, DC – Three days, three countries, hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and a geopolitical shift in the United States’s approach to the region: Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East has been eventful.
This week, the United States president visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in the first planned trip of his second presidency, after attending Pope Francis’s funeral last month.
Trump was visibly gleeful throughout the trip as he secured…
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Gaining citizenship by simply being born in a country is not the global norm, but it has been a long-standing practice in the United States. President Donald Trump, however, wants to change that. Al Jazeera’s Joseph Stepansky explains how the Supreme Court could be the deciding factor.
Published On 16 May 2025
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on European countries on …
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that Israeli occupation …
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Gaza health authorities reported that 103 Palestinians were killed and …
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A UN spokesperson on Friday expressed concern over the “extremely volatile” situation in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s operations are ongoing, Anadolu reports. “The intensification of operations by Israeli forces comes after several displacement orders were issued for areas in North Gaza, Deir al Balah, and Khan Younis governorates in the past three days. “The situation remains extremely volatile and unpredictable,” Stephanie Tremblay said at a news conference. In northern Gaza, Tremblay said…
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“It was a deal,” said Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, in an interview with Drop Site. He said the promise came from Witkoff himself. “They didn’t violate the deal. They threw it in the trash.”
Alexander, a dual U.S.-Israeli settler, was captured by Palestinian resistance fighters from an Israeli tank on October 7, 2023. He used to serve in the Israeli military. His release this week marked the first time Hamas freed a male Israeli soldier since the genocide…
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