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Syria evacuates Bedouins from Suwayda as shaky ceasefire holds
St. Kitts Gazette
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July 21, 2025
The Syrian government is evacuating hundreds of Bedouin families trapped inside the southern city of Suwayda, where a fragile ceasefire is holding after Druze and Bedouin fighters fought for a week. The first Bedouin families left on Monday on...
Iran leader’s advisor: National unity requires tangible change and public satisfaction
Iran Front Page
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July 21, 2025
Ali Akbar Velayati, senior advisor to the leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, has underscored the importance of national unity in a post on the social platform X. Echoing Ayatollah Khamenei’s repeated calls for...
Middle East Emerging As A Major Global Fintech Hub
MENAFN
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July 20, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The Middle East is fast becoming one of the world's most exciting fintech frontiers. Digital banking adoption in the UAE is soaring, 89 per cent of consumers now use digital-first bank accounts, and digital payments now...
Türkiye seeks new Iraq deal as it ends over 50-year oil pipeline pact
Sabah
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July 21, 2025
Türkiye remains interested in restarting an oil pipeline with Iraq that has been inactive for two years due to a dispute, a senior Turkish official said on Monday, despite Ankara's announcement ending a decades-old agreement covering the pipeline....
Judge blocks ICE deportation of Iranian man in US for 26 years
OregonLive.com
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July 21, 2025
A federal judge on Monday ordered the U.S. government not to deport an Iranian immigrant who was arrested by ICE officers late last month on his way to a gym from his Yamhill County home. U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai of Eugene found the...
Family reports US citizen killed in Syria’s Suwayda
News.Az
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The US State Department announced on Monday that an American citizen was killed amid the unrest in the southern Syrian city of Suwayda last week. Family members say Hosam Saraya, a 35-year-old Druze man with US citizenship, was killed last week....
Turkey accuses Greece of masking Aegean expansion aspirations with ‘marine parks
Bianet
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July 21, 2025
Turkey has criticized Greece’s decision to declare two new marine parks, one in the Aegean Sea and the other in the Ionian Sea, accusing Athens of using environmental protection as a cover for expanding its jurisdiction in disputed maritime areas....
Israeli tanks, snipers opened fire on crowd seeking aid in Gaza, says UN food agency
The Hindu
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July 21, 2025
The UN food agency accused Israel of using tanks, snipers and other weapons to fire on a crowd of Palestinians seeking food aid, in what the territory's Health Ministry said was one of the deadliest days for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war....
Western nations slam Israel’s ‘drip feeding’ of Gaza aid as health ministry says 1,000 killed seeking supplies
CNN
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July 21, 2025
CNN — The foreign ministers of 25 Western nations have slammed Israel for “drip feeding” aid into the Gaza Strip, as the health ministry in the territory said that more than 1,000 people have been killed seeking humanitarian relief there since...
Is Donald Trump losing grip on Israel? White House drops massive hint
The Economic Times
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July 21, 2025
President Donald Trump was “caught off guard” by the recent Israeli strikes in Syria and on a Catholic church in Gaza, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday. Israeli attack last week hit the Gaza Strip's only Catholic church,...
Pro-Israel hackers took $81M in crypto — but it wasn’t about the money
Coin Telegraph
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Which Iranian crypto exchange got hacked in June 2025? Iran-based crypto exchange Nobitex suffered a hack on June 18. Pro-Israel hacker group Gonjeshke Darande claimed responsibility for the $81-million crypto theft. Blockchain security analyst...
Nik Kowsar: Iran’s war on the supernatural
Daily Freeman - New York
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July 21, 2025
When an Iranian regime insider recently claimed Israel had deployed “supernatural spirits” in its latest war with Iran — complete with Jewish talismans allegedly found on the streets of Tehran — I didn’t laugh. I didn’t scoff. I felt something...
Finland, 24 countries condemn Israeli killings of Gazans seeking aid
Daily Finland
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Twenty-four countries including Finland and a EU Commissioner on Monday condemned the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food. Terming the situation as...
WHO says Gaza facilities attacked as Israel expands operations
Antelope County News - Nebraska
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The World Health Organization said Monday its facilities in Gaza had come under Israeli attack, echoing calls from Western countries for an immediate ceasefire as Israel expanded military operations to the central city of Deir el-Balah. WHO chief...
Major disinformation campaign targeting Syria
Zaman Al Wsl
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July 21, 2025
Over the past few hours, Syrian public opinion has been subjected to a torrent of fabricated news circulated through media outlets and social media pages, as part of a clear disinformation campaign aimed at spreading panic and distorting facts on...
Egypt provides free train rides for Sudanese refugees returning home
SRN News
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July 21, 2025
Audio By Carbonatix CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of people who have been displaced by fighting in Sudan gathered Monday at the central train station in Cairo to begin a free journey home. The Egyptian government is funding train rides to Khartoum,...
Australia and allies demand Israel end Gaza war ‘now’
Seven News
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July 21, 2025
The United Kingdom and 24 other countries say Israel must immediately end its war in the Gaza Strip and have criticised what they called the “inhumane killing” of Palestinians, including hundreds near food distribution sites. France, Italy, Japan,...
Turkey’s intelligence chief visits political parties ahead of special 'peace' committee
Bianet
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July 21, 2025
İbrahim Kalın, head of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), is visiting political parties represented in parliament ahead of the formation of a parliamentary committee as part of efforts to resolve the Kurdish question. Kalın today paid...
Push to sanction Israel as 'inhumane killing' decried
The West Australian
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July 21, 2025
Protesters have taken to Australia's political heartland to demand sanctions on Israel as the government condemned the "inhumane killing" of civilians in Gaza. While politicians revelled in the pageantry that marked the beginning of the...
UK, Canada and 23 other countries slam Israel over Gaza, say war 'must end now'
NBC News
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July 21, 2025
Israel and Hamas have been engaged in ceasefire talks but there appears to be no breakthrough, and it’s not clear whether any truce would bring the war to a lasting halt. Netanyahu has repeatedly asserted that expanding Israel’s military...