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  • Trump announces pro-Palestine protests to be allowed during 2026 World Cup – Middle East Monitor

    Trump announces pro-Palestine protests to be allowed during 2026 World Cup – Middle East Monitor

    US President Donald Trump announced that pro-Palestine protests will be allowed during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico.

    This came during a press conference with FIFA President Gianni Infantino at the White House on Wednesday.

    Trump explained that potential pro-Palestinian protests during the 2026 World Cup in the US will not be prohibited.

    “I think people are allowed to protest. You have to do it in a reasonable…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • Israel must immediately stop its genocide in Gaza – Middle East Monitor

    Israel must immediately stop its genocide in Gaza – Middle East Monitor

    Amnesty International said on Wednesday that “Israel has continued to commit genocidal acts, fully aware of the irreversible harm being inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza.”

    It stated, “Any move by Israel to displace Palestinians to the south of the Gaza Strip and confine them into so-called ‘closed bubbles’ or continue to impose inhumane conditions of life to push Palestinians out of Gaza, would amount to the war crime of unlawful transfer or…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • LIVE BLOG: Israel Threatens Iran, Fears Ansarallah Retaliation | Medical Teams Denied – Day 580

    LIVE BLOG: Israel Threatens Iran, Fears Ansarallah Retaliation | Medical Teams Denied – Day 580

    Thu, May 8, 11:09 AM (Palestine Time)

    UNRWA: Israel Bombed School Sheltering Around 2,000 Displaced in Gaza

    UNRWA: Israeli forces bombed an agency school that had become a shelter for displaced people in the Bureij camp in central Gaza twice, noting that the school was sheltering around 2,000 people, many of whom had been displaced countless times during this war.

    Thu, May 8, 11:09 AM (Palestine…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • Will African nations ever be able to repay their debt? | Business and Economy

    Will African nations ever be able to repay their debt? | Business and Economy

    African nations are drowning in debt. A halt of US aid to many countries on the continent could worsen the crisis.

    Africa is a continent rich in natural resources with a young population. African nations in theory have the potential to transform their economies. But many of them are facing mountains of debt.

    Africa’s external debt climbed to more than $650bn last year.

    More than half of African countries are either in debt distress or teetering on the edge. But credit restructuring is…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Documentary reveals identity of Israeli soldier who killed Shireen Abu Akleh   – Middle East Monitor

    Documentary reveals identity of Israeli soldier who killed Shireen Abu Akleh   – Middle East Monitor

    A new documentary titled Who Killed Shireen?” was presented for the first time in New York, produced by Zeteo Media. The film reveals new details about the identity of the Israeli soldier who killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022 in the West Bank city of Jenin.

    According to the film, the soldier responsible for the killing is Israeli soldier Alon Skajio.

    Al Jazeera reporter Bisan Abu Kweik, who appears in the documentary, pointed out a…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • 214 journalists killed since the start of the war on Gaza – Middle East Monitor

    214 journalists killed since the start of the war on Gaza – Middle East Monitor

    The death toll of journalist martyrs in Gaza has risen to 214 since the start of the war on the Strip on 7 October 2023, with the martyrdom of journalist Yahya Subaih in an Israeli airstrike targeting a restaurant in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood, west of Gaza City.

    Press sources in Gaza reported that journalist Subaih was killed hours after his daughter’s birth.

    The Government Media Office in Gaza announced the updated death toll, noting that the martyr worked…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • Our ceasefire agreement with the US does not include Israel – Middle East Monitor

    Our ceasefire agreement with the US does not include Israel – Middle East Monitor

    Reuters quoted a spokesman for the Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement in Yemen as saying on Wednesday that “the agreement between the movement and the US does not include Israel.”

    This comes after US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the US would halt its airstrikes against Yemen, after claiming that his country had received what he described as a promise from the Yemenis to halt attacks on ships in the Red Sea, considering this good news.

    During…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • Emirates airline group announces record $6.2 bn gross profit

    Emirates airline group announces record $6.2 bn gross profit

    Dubai’s Emirates Group, which includes the Middle East’s biggest airline, announced on Thursday gross annual profit of $6.2 billion, its third record in three years.

    The 18 percent rise in profit, based on strong customer demand, slimmed to $5.6 billion after the UAE’s recently introduced corporate tax, which was applied for a full financial year for the first time.

    “The Emirates Group has raised the bar to set new records for profit, revenue and cash assets,” chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • EU calls on Israel to lift Gaza blockade “immediately” – Middle East Monitor

    EU calls on Israel to lift Gaza blockade “immediately” – Middle East Monitor

    The European Commission called on Israel on Wednesday to immediately lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip, stating that “For over two months, no humanitarian supplies have entered Gaza,” in clear violation of international humanitarian law.

    This came in a joint statement issued by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas, EU Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Suica, and EU Commissioner for Preparedness, Crisis…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • ‘Nowhere to go’: Kashmir violence escalates amid India-Pakistan crossfire | Conflict News

    ‘Nowhere to go’: Kashmir violence escalates amid India-Pakistan crossfire | Conflict News

    Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged gunfire overnight in Kashmir, a day after the worst violence between the nuclear-armed rivals in two decades.

    Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pledged to retaliate after India launched deadly missile attacks on Wednesday morning, with days of repeated gunfire along their border escalating into artillery shelling.

    “We will avenge each drop of the blood of these martyrs,” Sharif said, in an address to the nation.

    India said it had destroyed…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com