Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Thursday condemned Israel and reaffirmed her support for Palestinians in Gaza, following backlash over a Broadway musical she co-produced with former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Yousafzai, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, has been condemned by some for partnering with Clinton, an outspoken supporter of Israel's war in Gaza. The musical, titled "Suffs," depicts the American women's suffrage campaign for the right to vote in the 20th century and has been playing in New York since last week. "I want there to be no confusion about my supp...
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The White House said Wednesday it wanted "answers" from Israeli authorities after the discovery of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals destroyed in Israeli sieges. Gaza's Civil Defense agency said the day prior that health workers uncovered nearly 340 bodies of people killed and buried by Israeli forces at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. Around 30 bodies were reported found buried in two graves in the Al-Shifa hospital courtyard in Gaza City. "We want answers," National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters. "We want to see this thoroughly and transparently investigated." The discove...
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The bodies of 14 migrants have been found in recent days off the coast of Tunisia's southern Djerba island, a public prosecutor in the city of Medenine told AFP Wednesday. Fethi Bakkouche, prosecutor at the court in Medenine, said that "bodies began to appear near the coast of the island of Djerba since Friday". "The toll reached 14 bodies," Bakkouche said, adding that they were of irregular migrants. Most of them had come from sub-Saharan African countries, he said, and one was an Egyptian man identified by the passport he was carrying. Tunisia as well as neighbouring Libya have become key de...
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Algeria signed a $3.5 billion deal with Qatar's largest dairy producer Baladna on Wednesday, establishing a vast cattle-breeding farm for powdered milk, a highly sought-after product in the North African country. With an expected yield of 200,000 tonnes of powdered milk per year, the project would help meet 50 percent of national demand for the product, according to reports. The project, which covers an area of 170,000 hectares in the Adrar province, includes a farm for growing cattle feed, "a farm for cattle and producing milk and meat, and a factory for the production of powdered milk," the ...
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Turkey's justice minister warned the country's main pro-Kurdish DEM party on Wednesday that it would face the risk of legal action, and even a closure case like its predecessor, if it did not distance itself from Kurdish militants. DEM, parliament's third largest party, was established last year as a successor to the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which is facing the prospect of closure over alleged militant links in a court case following a years-long crackdown. "In the past, closure cases were opened against parties for supporting terrorism," Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc told reporters in ...
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The United States on Wednesday warned of a looming rebel military offensive on the Sudanese city of Al-Fashir, a humanitarian hub that appears to be at the center of a newly opening front in the country's civil war. After a year of fighting between the SAF forces of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (FSR), under General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, millions have been displaced in the northeastern African country. Until recently, Al-Fashir - the last Darfur state capital not under RSF control - had been relatively unaffected by the fighting, hosting a la...
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Iraqi authorities have executed at least 11 people convicted of "terrorism" this week, security and health sources said Wednesday, with rights group Amnesty International condemning an "alarming lack of transparency". Under Iraqi law, terrorism and murder offences are punishable by death, and execution decrees must be signed by the president. A security source in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province told AFP that 11 "terrorists from the Islamic State group" were executed by hanging at a prison in the city of Nasiriyah, "under the supervision of a justice ministry team". A local medical source conf...
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Neighbors Pakistan and Iran on Wednesday pledged to enhance efforts at a "united front" against Afghanistan-based militants, saying their presence poses a serious threat to regional and global security. The countries, which share a long and porous border, made the commitment in a joint statement issued after a three-day visit by Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi to Islamabad. The visit was aimed at mending ties that were strained in January when each carried out strikes in the other’s territory, targeting militants accused of attacking security forces. The Iranian president met with Pakistani Pre...
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Iran has reduced its military footprint in Syria after a succession of Israeli strikes, a source close to Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and a war monitor said Wednesday. Iran has provided military support to Syrian regime forces through more than a decade of civil war, but a series of strikes targeting its commanders in recent months has prompted a reshaping of its presence, the sources said. "Iran withdrew its forces from southern Syria," including both Quneitra and Daraa provinces, which abut the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, the source close to Hezbollah said. But it still maintains...
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Egyptian authorities on Wednesday released 18 people, mostly women, who were arrested a day earlier in Cairo during a solidarity rally for women in war-torn Gaza and Sudan, a lawyer said. "All those arrested during yesterday's protest in front of the UN (Women) headquarters have been released," rights lawyer Tarek el-Awadi posted on X. Prominent activist Lobna Darwish of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) was among those detained at Tuesday's protest, along with rights lawyers Ragia Omran and Mahienour el-Massry, lawyer Khaled Ali had said earlier. The rights lawyer and former ...
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