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Despite the reopening of Rafah, Israel is still limiting the entry of foreign and Israeli journalists and insisting on supervising their visits. Israel fully reopened the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Monday for pedestrians, a day after rolling out a limited pilot test to sort through unforeseen logistics issues. Collectively, the Sunday-Monday…
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but the Islamic State group operates across the border in Afghanistan. KHAR, Pakistan — A powerful bomb ripped through a rally held by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in the country’s northwestern Bajur District that borders Afghanistan on Sunday, police and health officials said….
DOHA/CAIRO, March 4 (Reuters) – Arab leaders adopted an Egyptian reconstruction plan for Gaza on Tuesday that would cost $53 billion and avoid displacing Palestinians from the enclave, in contrast to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Middle East Riviera” vision. Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said the proposal, welcomed in subsequent statements by Hamas and criticised…
Russia’s election commission has rejected anti-war challenger Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate in next month’s presidential vote. Mr Nadezhdin has been relatively critical of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war in Ukraine when few dissenting voices have been tolerated in Russia. Election authorities claimed more than 15% of the signatures he submitted with his candidate application were…
Ships attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz will need secret codes and to pay up to $2 million in Chinese yuan or cryptocurrencies to avoid being attacked by Iran, according to a new report. After Iran’s lawmakers approved a bill to impose fees on the safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz this…
Judge refuses Hong Kong government’s request for injunction against Glory to Hong Kong, saying it could have chilling effect Hong Kong’s high court has rejected a government attempt to ban a protest song, Glory to Hong Kong, saying an injunction could create a chilling effect and undermine freedom of expression. The government had sought the…