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Yemeni Government Forces Intercept Iranian Weapons Shipment
MENAFN
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July 17, 2025
(MENAFN) Yemeni government-aligned forces announced on Wednesday that they had intercepted and confiscated a significant arms shipment—amounting to 750 tons—destined for the Houthi faction in the Red Sea. The seizure is being regarded as a major...
Anti-Israel activists pressure Microsoft, Google and Amazon to boycott Israel
All Israel News
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July 16, 2025
Leading tech companies – including Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Meta, and Amazon – are facing growing pressure to boycott Israel over accusations of the alleged misuse of artificial intelligence and cloud technologies in the ongoing Gaza war. Some...
Gaza war has to stop, we have achieved everything: Ex-Israeli PM Ehud Olmert
India Today
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July 16, 2025
In this exclusive edition of World Today, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert states that a large part of the Israeli population now believes the war in Gaza must end. He asserts that Israel has achieved all it can through military...
UK's OFCOM accused of punishing Palestinian storytelling, shielding Israeli narrative
Press TV
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Saeed Pourreza Press TV, London A BBC documentary on Gaza has come under formal investigation by Britain’s media regulator, not for inaccuracies, but for allowing a Palestinian child, whose father has a technocratic position in the Hamas...
Scottish Government to review plans for ABC Sauchiehall Street site
GlasgowWorld
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July 17, 2025
Plans to redevelop the fire-damaged O2 ABC site on Sauchiehall Street have been called in by the Scottish Government. Glasgow City Council has been informed the decision has been taken due to the potential impact on the “nationally important”...
Syrian government and Druze minority leaders announce a new ceasefire as Israel continues...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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Israeli strikes continued after the ceasefire announcement. Rare Israeli airstrikes in the heart of Damascus The announcement came after Israel launched rare airstrikes in the heart of Damascus, an escalation in a campaign that it said was...
Libya Asserts Mediterranean Maritime Claims at UN, Rejects Greece-Egypt Accord
To Vima
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July 17, 2025
Libya has officially submitted its claim on the outer limits of its continental shelf in the Mediterranean to the UN. The declaration, made via a note verbale on May 27, 2025, was circulated as an official document of the 79th UN General Assembly...
Aftermath of Israeli airstrikes in Damascus
Xinhua News Agency
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Pedestrians pass by the General Command building of the Syrian Army damaged in Israeli airstrikes in Damascus, Syria, on July 16, 2025. Syrian local media and witnesses said on Wednesday that Israel launched a wave of airstrikes on Damascus,...
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'A misunderstanding, heading toward real de-escalation': Rubio says all parties agreed on 'specific steps' to ease Israel-Syria conflic
Firstpost
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July 17, 2025
In a significant diplomatic breakthrough, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Washington and other involved parties have agreed on “specific steps” aimed at ending tensions between Israel and Syria “tonight,” signalling yet another...
If big countries don’t condemn terrorism it will continue: Israeli envoy
Awaz The Voice
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July 17, 2025
Mumbai Consul General of Israel to India in Mumbai, Kobbi Shoshani, said that all the big countries must raise their voices against terrorist activities that have long plagued India and Israel. Shoshani, while reacting to External Affairs Minister...
Clashes resume in Syria's Sweida city
China Daily Global
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Smoke rises while Syrian security forces sit in the back of a truck as troops entered Sweida city on Tuesday. KARAM AL-MASRI/REUTERS DAMASCUS — Clashes between Syrian government troops and local Druze fighters resumed in the southern Druze city of...
Who are the Druze, and why does Israel say attacking Syria is helping them?
SBS
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Israel says it's striking Syria to defend the Druze, a minority group with longstanding roots in the region and a history of tensions on its doorstep. Clashes erupted on Sunday between factions from the Druze religious minority and Bedouin tribes...
Syrian gov’t forces begin withdrawing from Sweida as Israel vows to protect Druze
The Times of Israel
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July 16, 2025
Syria announced it had begun withdrawing its army from Druze-majority Sweida city on Wednesday night after agreeing to a new ceasefire that it said would bring a complete halt to its military operations there, even as some Druze leaders rejected...
Israel Conducts Massive Strikes On Damascus After Sharaa Regime's Sectarian Attacks
Zero Hedge
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"The heavy blows have started" Israel's defense minister Israel Katz has posted to X above a video (below) showing a Syrian news presenter abruptly taking shelter after a massive explosion in central Damascus. The rare daytime aerial attack by...
Turkish Court Adds to Prison Sentence of Opposition Leader İmamoğlu
To Vima
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July 16, 2025
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced Ekrem İmamoğlu, the imprisoned mayor of Istanbul and prominent opposition figure, to one year and eight months in prison for insulting and threatening a public official, in a case that predates his...
Hassan Shiekh spotted in Turkish resort as Somalia reels from political and security crisis
Garowe Online
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Hassan Shiekh spotted in Turkish resort as Somalia reels from political and security crisis ANTALYA, Turkey (GO) — A photo of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud aboard a luxury yacht in Antalya, one of Turkey’s premier tourist destinations,...
Dozens killed in Israeli attacks while seeking food in Gaza
Daily Finland
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Amid continuing hostilities in Gaza, Palestinians continue to be killed or injured as they seek food from militarized aid hubs, UN humanitarians said on Wednesday, reported Xinhua. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)...
Israel Strikes Hezbollah's 'Radwan Force' Deep Inside Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley
Asharq Al-Awsat
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July 16, 2025
Israel carried out a wave of airstrikes on eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on Tuesday, targeting Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force in what Israeli officials described as an effort to disrupt the group’s attempts to rebuild its military capabilities....
Israel Launches Strikes In Damascus After Syrian Regime Targets Druze Citizens
News24
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July 16, 2025
Israel on Wednesday targeted areas near the Syrian Presidential Palace, military headquarters, and the Defence Ministry establishment in Damascus. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) stated that they are conducting operations in response to the...
‘Syrian president doesn’t need Israel as an enemy’ – American Jewish leader
Channel 4 News
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July 16, 2025
We spoke to Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an American Jewish leader who recently returned from meeting Syria’s President and has spoken of his hopes of improving relations between Israel and the new Syrian government.