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Kuwaiti Finance Minister Noora al-Fassam resigned from her post, the state news agency KUNA reported on Monday, Anadolu reports.

Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah issued a decree accepting her resignation and appointed Electricity Minister Subaih Al-Mukhaizeem as an interim replacement.

KUNA, however, did not specify reasons for her departure.

Fassam was appointed in August 2024 during the first Cabinet reshuffle under Prime Minister Ahmad…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he would convene his security cabinet this week to discuss how to instruct the military to meet his war goals in Gaza.

“We must continue to stand together and fight together to achieve all our war objectives: the defeat of the enemy, the release of our hostages, and the assurance that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel,” Netanyahu said at the outset of a regular cabinet meeting.

Israel’s Channel 12 cited an…

By Markus Wacket

BERLIN (Reuters) -A senior lawmaker in German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition on Monday said Berlin should consider sanctions on Israel including a partial suspension of weapons exports or the suspension of a European Union-wide political agreement.

The call by Siemtje Moeller, the deputy leader of the Social Democrats (SPD) parliamentary faction, reflects a sharpening of rhetoric from Berlin against Israel which has yet to yield any major policy changes however….

A massive civilian flotilla is set to depart for the Gaza Strip at the end of August in a new bid to break Israel’s blockade that has left the territory’s entire population on the verge of famine, Anadolu reports.

Speaking at a press conference in Tunis hosted by the Joint Action Coordination for Palestine, a civil society coordination platform, members of the Global Sumud Flotilla said activists from 44 countries have signed up for the coordinated effort.

“This summer, dozens of…