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Former Scottish Prime Minister Humza Yousaf said that Israel continues its actions because of support from the United States, stressing that Washington has the means to pressure Israel to stop the war on Gaza.

In an interview on Alghad TV’s programme Madar Alghad, presented by Amr Abdelhamid on Tuesday evening, Yousaf called on the West, as well as Arab and Islamic countries with good relations with Washington, to exert moral pressure on US President Donald…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday the leaders of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea – who appeared together at a military parade in Beijing – represented an “autocratic alliance” challenging the rules-based international order.

“While Western leaders gather in diplomacy, an autocratic alliance is seeking a fast track to a new world order,” Kallas, the European Union’s high representative for foreign and security policy, told reporters in…

Pizzeria owner Saeed is unable to take or serve orders at his restaurant in the Iranian capital, his business stalled by rolling power outages that have compounded the country’s many economic woes.

“Outages often hit right in the middle of lunch service, the worst time for restaurant owners,” the 48-year-old entrepreneur told AFP from his pizzeria in an upscale neighbourhood of northern Tehran, requesting to be identified only by his first name.

Prolonged power cuts, which also disrupt water…

The director of a new film about a five-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza told the Venice Film Festival Wednesday she wanted to give “a voice and a face” to victims.

“We’ve seen that the narrative all around the world is that those dying in Gaza are collateral damage, in the media, and I think this is so dehumanising,” Franco-Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania told journalists ahead of the world premiere of “The Voice of Hind Rajab”.

“And that’s why cinema, art, and every kind…