Report: Iran detains cartoonist again, journalist group calls for release
Dubai (AP) — Iranian authorities have summoned and arrested a cartoonist who has a history of being imprisoned for political
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Month: June 2023
Blinken to travel to China next week, carrying out trip postponed after spy balloon incident
Washington (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning to travel to China next week as the Biden administration
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Palestinians say Israeli troops kill man at West Bank checkpoint; Israel says he attacked a soldier
Ramallah (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man at a checkpoint in
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Israeli troops fire tear gas to disperse protesters along Lebanon border
Kfar Chouba (AP) — Israeli soldiers fired tear gas to disperse scores of protesters who pelted the troops with stones
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Sudan’s government declares UN envoy no longer welcome; warring sides agree to 24-hour cease-fire
Cairo (AP) — The Sudanese government announced that the U.N. envoy to the country and key mediator in its brutal
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A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria’s Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states
By KAREEM CHEHAYEByesterday Beirut (AP) — A little white pill has given Syrian President Bashar Assad powerful leverage with his
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Blinken says he will work on Israel-Saudi-Arabia normalization
Riyadh (Reuters) – Washington will press ahead with efforts to normalize diplomatic ties between its main Middle East allies Saudi
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COP28 president says fossil fuels phasedown is inevitable
Berlin (Reuters) – The phasedown of fossil fuels is inevitable, the United Arab Emirates’ incoming COP28 president said on Thursday,
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Saudi Arabia’s golf coup highlights Biden’s human rights bind
Riyadh/Washington (Reuters) – When Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) signed a deal this week to merge with North America’s
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Two senators propose to bar US FAA from using Chinese drones
Washington (Reuters) – Two U.S. senators said on Thursday they had proposed barring the Federal Aviation Administration from buying or
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