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UK Lawyers for Israel calls to proscribe Doctors Without Borders as terror group

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'Symbolic' UK sanctions on Israel aim to avoid Washington's wrath

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Muslims in Germany are being squeezed from both right and left

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UK trade ban on illegal settlements is historic and welcome, if long overdue

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US immigration policy is coming for your Saturday night plans

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The UAE, like the US and Israel, is normalising a permanent state of war in the Middle East

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Ratko Mladic is gone. The racial ideology that produced him is not

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The world is finally watching Palestine. But who gets to narrate its story?

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Can Palestinian elections still matter after the Gaza genocide?

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How Israel is expanding its cybersecurity footprint in Latin America

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Exclusive: UAE pursuing 'port imperialism' across Africa, Eritrean foreign minister says

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Exclusive: UK sanctions on Israeli settlements to include those in Syria's Golan Heights

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Romania's secret CIA prison: Two decades of denial and unanswered questions

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Xi's Egypt visit tests Cairo's balancing act

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Qatar and Pakistan carry Trump's message to Iran: He won't return to the MoU

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'There was blood everywhere': Survivors recount US strike on wedding in Iran

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Vance: US investigating strike on Iran wedding 'very fully'

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Israeli officials leak details of secret US-Israel-Arab military meeting, says report

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New imagery reveals US underplaying extent of damage from Iranian attacks

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US acknowledges munition 'shortfalls' due to war on Iran

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Houthi attacks expose gaps in Pakistan's defence pact with Saudi Arabia

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Tucker Carlson says Israel sought regional hegemony by weakening Gulf states through Iran war

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Iran used Chinese satellite images for attack on US base in Jordan, says report

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Germany asks ICJ to dismiss Gaza genocide case brought by Nicaragua

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Israel to expel Palestinians in Gaza over kites flown by children

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Aid chief tells UN that US-backed Board of Peace is 'failing' Gaza

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UK charity faces regulatory warning after Israeli settlement property protest

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Sponsor of British Museum Bayeux Tapestry exhibition funded community centre in West Bank settlement

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Israeli opposition accuses Netanyahu of fuelling diplomatic isolation after UK sanctions

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ICJP urges investigation into UK charity over support for illegal Israeli settlement

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Sanctions on Israeli settlements: Here's what Europe is saying and doing

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Israeli journalist says Palestinians face threat of expulsion from the river to the sea

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Israel threatens senior Palestinian officials with 'all-out war' in occupied West Bank

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Trump says Houthis asked US not to intervene in Yemen

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Houthis used AI platform Claude to develop ballistic missiles

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Former Israeli spy detained by ICE in US

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Israel versus the UN: How it got this bad

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UN secretary-general race: What it takes to be the world's top diplomat

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NAZA: Film exposing systematic killing in Gaza gets record 24-minute standing ovation at Venice

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Elyanna faces backlash over prison visuals in 'BOSA' music video

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Palestinian child killed by Israel on first day back at school in Gaza

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Macklemore calls for a 'free Palestine' during Ed Sheeran shows, prompting praise and backlash

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Ben Gvir deletes AI video showing emaciated Palestinian prisoners after backlash

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Girl Scouts USA responds to controversy over 'Islamic' badges

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Iranian-American comedian Max Amini sparks backlash over 'species' remarks on Iranian people

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Pro-Israel Emirati influencers mocked for claims of Islamic plot to take over West

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Bidon Waraq: How a Kuwaiti media start-up recreates the 'diwaniya' for the digital age

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The Renewal of Islam: An Oxford academic's antidote to bigoted narratives

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America's Middle East: How Washington brought ruin to the region

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Every Moment Is a Life: A Gaza anthology curated by Susan Abulhawa is a tour de force

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The Foundations of Zionism: An epic work of Palestinian scholarship now available in English

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The resurrection of Hezbollah

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The Israeli unmaking of the Ibrahimi Mosque

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Helena Cobban: Why understanding Hamas matters

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Gideon Levy: Reporting on the Intifada changed how I see Israel

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Doha strike shows that no peace can be achieved by recognising Israel

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Anas al-Sharif was murdered for being Gaza's voice

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Not just Israel: The Arabs and Europe are complicit in starving Gaza

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Britain once jailed suffragettes. Now it jails Palestine activists

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'Death to the IDF' is not antisemitic. Where is the outrage over Israeli crimes in Gaza?

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Israel's failure to subdue Iran shows it can no longer dictate the regional order

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