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Digital platform for facilitating foreigners’ purchase of housing units in Egypt in dollars
Egypt Independent
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July 17, 2025
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly affirmed that the government is working, in coordination with real estate investors, to establish a fully integrated digital system to facilitate foreign ownership of housing units in Egypt. This aims to encourage...
Bogotá Summit calls for actions against Israel
MercoPress
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Thursday, July 17th 2025 - 09:35 UTC Albanese further called on all countries to “immediately review and suspend their ties with the State of Israel” The First Emergency Ministerial Summit of the Hague Group, held in Bogotá, Colombia, on Tuesday...
Two killed and several injured in Israeli strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church
Swindon Advertiser
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Several other people, including the parish priest, were injured. The Catholic charity Caritas Jerusalem said the parish’s 60-year-old caretaker and an 84-year-old woman receiving psycho-social support inside a Caritas tent in the church compound...
LMA welcomes UK Gov’s financial services strategy, says Arabella Ramage
Reinsurance News
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July 17, 2025
The Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) welcomes the UK Government’s Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy, which recognises the insurance sector’s importance, specifically the role of Lloyd’s of London, according to Arabella Ramage,...
DOGE Instructions and a White House Deadline: How the Government Canceled Harvard’s Grants
The Harvard Crimson - Massachusetts
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Lawyers for the federal government filed a 2,000-page administrative record late Monday evening, giving a new window into the government’s process for terminating research grants to Harvard — and revealing that the Department of Government...
‘Denied and obfuscated’: Ford government forced to release Eglinton LRT, Ontario Line emails
Global News
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July 17, 2025
The Ford government has been ordered to release seemingly innocuous emails containing an outdated schedule for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT and details of construction work on the Ontario Line, which it has fought for years not to make public. Since...
Bad news for Iran as Israel develops the Arrow 4 air defense system, it can intercept ballistic missiles from..., capable of destroying...
India.com
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July 17, 2025
Home News Bad news for Iran as Israel develops the Arrow 4 air defense system, it can intercept ballistic missiles from…, capable of destroying… The Arrow-4 system has been developed based on the "shoot-look-shoot" operational theory, according to...
Chilean mayor defies most anti-Israel South American nation to visit Israel
Israel Hayom
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July 17, 2025
In late December 2024, an evangelical clergy organization erected a tall metal Hanukkah menorah near the waterfront in Puerto Montt, southern Chile, to commemorate the Jewish holiday. The city of 250,000 residents houses a small Jewish community...
Israeli strike interrupts Syria TV live broadcast
RTE Ireland
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July 17, 2025
During a live broadcast, a Syria TV news anchor was abruptly interrupted as an Israeli strike hit the ministry of defence in Damascus yesterday afternoon. Israel launched powerful airstrikes in Damascus, damaging the defence ministry and hitting...
Fury as airport drop-off charges cost MORE per minute than flight to Turkey - so are YOU paying through the nose?
Daily Mail
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July 17, 2025
More than half of UK airports raised or introduced drop-off fees for drivers in the past year - while most of the busiest EU airports still have no charge, a study has found. Eleven out of 20 UK airports have increased 'kiss and fly' charges -...
Syria says pulling troops from Druze heartland
Mehr News Agency
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July 17, 2025
Syria announced that its army had begun to withdraw from violence-hit Sweida on July 16, following a wave of Israeli strikes on the capital and a US call for government forces to leave the majority-Druze southern city. The United States, which is...
Quiet battle brews over site of Nvidia’s next Israel tech hub
Ynet
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July 17, 2025
A behind-the-scenes contest is underway among Israeli municipalities vying to host Nvidia’s next tech campus, as local leaders quietly pitch their cities as ideal homes for the chip giant’s expanding presence in Israel. “Haifa offers game-changing...
Israel Strikes Syrian Defence Ministry Amid Escalating Sectarian Violence in Suweida
Arise News
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July 17, 2025
Israel’s military launched its third consecutive day of airstrikes on Syrian targets on Wednesday, striking the Syrian defence ministry in central Damascus and government forces in southern Syria, as deadly sectarian fighting in the Druze-majority...
Syria Says Local Factions To Secure Violence-hit Sweida
International Business Times
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July 17, 2025
The Syrian government announced Thursday that local leaders would assume control over security in the city of Sweida in an attempt to end violence that has claimed hundreds of lives and prompted Israel's military intervention in support of the...
Classic American literature translated into Turkmen will be presented in Ashgabat
Turkmenportal
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A fair of classic American literature translated into Turkmen will be held in Ashgabat on July 24. The event is organized jointly by the US Embassy in Turkmenistan and the country's government, the press service of the American diplomatic mission...
Syrian forces withdraw from Sweida after days of clashes with Druze fighters
The Guardian
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July 17, 2025
Syrian government forces have withdrawn from the Druze-majority province of Sweida, ending four days of clashes between the army and local Druze fighters. In a speech on Thursday, the Syrian president said Druze groups would be left to govern...
The leaning axis: Iranian proxies are bent but not broken after U.S.-Israeli strikes
The Insider
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Meanwhile, internal issues are distracting Iraq’s Shia militias. The country is preparing for elections, and the government in Baghdad has done its best to keep these groups from entering a new war with Israel, lest Iraqi territory become the same...
Israel’s entry into the Shia-Sunni war in Syria : 100 killed in bombardment !
Sanatan Prabhat
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July 17, 2025
Damascus (Syria) – Israel has intervened in the conflict between the Shiite Druze and Sunni Bedouin communities in Syria. Israeli forces attacked Syrian military tanks. Israel accuses the government and army of supporting the Sunni Bedouin...
Regional Countries Condemn Israeli Raids In Syria
MENAFN
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July 17, 2025
(MENAFN- Nam News Network) CAIRO, Jul 17 (NNN-MENA) – Countries in the Middle East, yesterday, condemned the Israeli airstrikes targeting the Syrian Army General Command headquarters, and the presidential palace area in central Damascus. The...
Israel and Jabotinsky’s Iron Wall
Antiwar
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July 17, 2025
Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a key figure in the development of the Zionist movement, which led to the founding of Israel in 1948. After breaking from mainline Zionism, Jabotinsky, born in Odessa (Ukraine), established Revisionist...