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Saudi Arabia on Tuesday denounced Israel’s plan to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, accusing it of systematically starving the territory’s population and engaging in ethnic cleansing, Anadolu reports.

In a statement carried by the state news agency SPA following a Cabinet meeting chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Neom, northwestern Saudi Arabia, ministers strongly condemned the Israeli decision to occupy Gaza and its “persistent crimes of…

By David Latona and Pietro Lombardi

MADRID/LISBON (Reuters) -Firefighters across Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and the Balkans were battling wildfires on Tuesday with another heatwave pushing temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across parts of Europe.

Global warming is giving the Mediterranean region hotter, drier summers, scientists say, with wildfires surging each year and sometimes whipping up into “whirls”.

“We are being cooked alive, this cannot continue,”…

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian police arrested as many as 21,000 “suspects” during the country’s 12-day war with Israel in June, a law enforcement spokesperson said on Tuesday, according to state media.

Following Israeli air strikes that began on June 13, Iranian security forces began a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by an intensified street presence based around checkpoints and “public reports” whereby citizens were called upon to report on any individuals they thought were acting…

Amnesty International condemned Israel’s “deliberate” killing of six journalists in the Gaza Strip on Monday, saying they were Gaza’s eyes and voices, Anadolu reported.

“Amnesty strongly condemns Israel’s deliberate killing of journalists in an air strike on a media tent in occupied Gaza City,” the human rights group said in a post on X.

The Israeli army targeted a journalists’ tent near the Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza City late Sunday, killing six journalists,…