• Gaza children dying as they wait for Israel to enable evacuations
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from BBC News - Middle East
    Around 15,000 Gazans are waiting for urgent medical treatment, according to the UN.
  • Federal immigration enforcement surge is now paused in East Bay too, Oakland mayor says
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
    Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said Friday that a planned increase in federal immigration enforcement was on pause throughout the Bay Area, not just in San Francisco.
  • Asylum seekers face deportation over failure to pay new fees — before being notified
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
    Advocates worry the confusion serves as a way for immigration officials to dismiss more asylum cases, which would render the applicants deportable.
  • UN's top court says Israel obliged to allow UN aid into Gaza
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from BBC News - Middle East
    The court also says Israel has not substantiated its allegations against the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
  • U.S. Flies Drones Over Gaza to Monitor Cease-Fire, Officials Say
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
    The surveillance missions are part of a U.S.-led international effort to ensure the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas holds.
  • Emirates Loves India: Registration, lineup, and full visitor guide to Dubai’s biggest Indian community event of 2025
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    Dubai gears up for "Emirates Loves India" on October 26, 2025, at Zabeel Park, celebrating Indian heritage and UAE-India ties. This free event, expecting over 70,000 attendees, features star performances, a cultural parade, diverse food...
  • Syrian forces negotiate truce with French-led jihadist group holed up in camp
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
    Syrian authorities on Thursday negotiated a ceasefire with a group of foreign jihadists led by Frenchman Oumar Diaby in northwestern Syria, according to sources.  
  • Dubai’s new floating museum to rise on water in the heart of the city
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    Dubai unveils its new floating museum, DUMA, on the waters of Dubai Creek. Designed by renowned architect Tadao Ando, the museum will feature five floors of modern art, a library, cafés, and creative spaces. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid...
  • Scottish fire engine destined for West Bank may return after 15-month Israeli seizure
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    Dundee firefighters request return of donated appliance to avoid Nablus officials having to pay £16,000 Ashdod holding fees A fully equipped fire engine donated by Dundee firefighters to their counterparts in the West Bank city of Nablus...
  • U.S. May Seek United Nations Mandate for Gaza Security Force, Rubio Says
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
    Vice President JD Vance spoke from Israel, as he wrapped up a visit aimed at shoring up a fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
  • Voter turnout exceeds expectations in California's Prop. 50 special election
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
    Over 3 million mail ballots have been returned in the special election about redrawing congressional districts. Political observers were surprised.
  • Plain rice and little else: life for 120,000 refugees inside Mauritania’s vast camp on Mali’s border
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    Over a quarter of a million refugees live in Mbera and nearby villages, and more than half are under 18. But aid cuts mean providing essentials has become even harder Several mornings a week, Mohamed ‘Momo’ Ag Malha walks at least 7...
  • Vance slams Israel's parliament vote on West Bank annexation, calling it an 'insult'
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from NPR Topics: Middle East
    U.S. Vice President Vance tours the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem on Thursday. Vice President Vance's scathing remark came as he wrapped up an Israel trip, as the Trump administration attempts to keep up momentum on the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
  • US Secretary of State Rubio to visit Israel as US tries to shore up Gaza ceasefire
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
    Chief US diplomat Marco Rubio was due in Israel on Thursday, the latest Washington official to visit as President Donald Trump's administration kept up efforts to cement the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. His visit comes...
  • Piano teacher to children of Hollywood stars fled country as jury decided sex abuse case
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
    John Kaleel left the U.S. earlier this month shortly before a Los Angeles jury convicted him on multiple counts of committing lewd acts with a student.
  • Arellano: As Trump blows up supposed narco boats, he uses an old, corrupt playbook on Latin America
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
    As Trump blows up supposed narco boats, he uses an old, corrupt playbook on Latin America
  • Warsaw Ghetto survivor who resisted the Nazis dies
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BBC News - Middle East
    Michael Smuss, an artist who helped make petrol bombs during the uprising, died in Israel aged 99.
  • Dubai launches AI system to link signals directly to vehicles, cutting congestion by up to 37%
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    Dubai's RTA is implementing a transformative smart traffic system integrating AI and V2X technology. This upgrade will connect traffic signals directly to vehicles, providing real-time data like countdown timers and optimal speed advice....
  • A Nepali Town Mourns a Native Son Who Died a Hamas Captive
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
    The family of Bipin Joshi, a student, had campaigned internationally for his release and had held out hope until the end that after two years in Gaza, he would return alive.
  • Vance Says He’s Not in Israel to Babysit Gaza Cease-Fire
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
    Vice President JD Vance said recent visits by top American officials were to monitor the cease-fire, but not “in the sense of, you know, you monitor a toddler.”
  • EU accuses Meta and TikTok of breaching social media transparency rules
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East
    The European Union has accused social media giants Meta and TikTok of breaking the bloc’s strict rules on online content, opening the door to potentially hefty fines.
  • Shadow fleet targeted as EU advances frozen assets plan for Ukraine
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Middle East
    The European Union on Thursday agreed a new sanctions package targeting Russia’s “shadow fleet” of oil tankers and banning imports of Russian liquefied natural gas. The move comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky joins EU...
  • How one road and an Israeli settlement could end dreams for this Palestinian city
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
    Israel's E1 settlement plan, as its known, would further divide Palestinian communities in the West Bank. One town in particular, Ezariya, would be hard hit by the settlement.
  • Vance slams Israel’s West Bank annexation vote as ‘insult’ and ‘stupid political stunt’
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
    Wrapping up his visit to Israel Thursday, US Vice President JD Vance criticised the Knesset's vote advancing an Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank as a "very stupid political stunt" and a personal "insult". His remarks came as...
  • UAE opens Shariah-compliant Treasury Sukuk to individual investors for the first time
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    The UAE Ministry of Finance has launched Retail Sukuk, allowing citizens and residents to invest in Shariah-compliant, government-backed T-Sukuk digitally, starting from AED 4,000. Previously limited to institutions, the initiative...
  • UAE: Mariah Carey to dazzle Abu Dhabi once again at Saadiyat Nights 2026
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    Global music icon Mariah Carey will return to Abu Dhabi to headline the 2025–2026 Saadiyat Nights on 7 February 2026, following her sold-out debut in 2024. The five-time Grammy winner will perform hits from her career and songs from her...
  • Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan forms first Dubai Student Council with 16 student members
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    Dubai has launched its first Student Council under Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, bringing together 16 students from diverse private schools. The council will connect students with the KHDA, representing nearly 400,000...
  • ‘Turkmen Authorities Are Carrying out a Systematic Campaign to Eliminate Independent Voices’
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Inter Press Service » Middle East & North Africa
      CIVICUS speaks about the disappearance of Turkmen activists Abdulla Orusov and Alisher Sahatov with human rights defender Diana Dadasheva from the civil movement DAYANÇ/Turkmenistan and with Gülala Hasanova, wife of Alisher...
  • ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza and says restrictions breached international obligations
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    UN’s top court also finds Israel failed to justify blocking Unrwa and other relief agencies Israel must allow aid into Gaza, and its restrictions on doing so over the past two years have put it in breach of its obligations, the UN’s top...
  • ‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    After fleeing Chinese repression, Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idris’s arrest and a long battle to be reunited Zeynure Hasan was at home in Istanbul in July...
  • Inside post-ceasefire Gaza: Israel-backed militias, clan wars and Hamas’s fight to survive
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
    The October 10 ceasefire between Hamas and Israel halted open war but not the violence in Gaza. Around seven armed factions and clans now battle Hamas for control while gunfights and public executions persist in the enclave, and some...
  • Surge in Channel crossings puts UK-France migrant deal under pressure
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East
    More than 36,800 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far in 2025, overtaking last year’s total and piling pressure on a new UK-France deal meant to stop the journeys.
  • Looking for Assad: is Syria's ousted President hiding out as a mechanic or under a hijab?
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
    The Assad family ruled Syria for more than five decades. However, since last December, Bashar al-Assad has vanished after a lightning rebel offensive toppled his regime. Online, memes and fake news now claim to have spotted the ousted...
  • European space giants plan new satellite powerhouse to take on Starlink
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East
    Airbus, Leonardo and Thales have unveiled plans for a new European satellite group headquartered in France – a landmark alliance aimed at bolstering Europe’s space ambitions and taking on global heavyweights such as Elon Musk’s Starlink.
  • Palestine rights group seeks prosecution of UK citizens who fought for Israel
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    Highly unusual court application alleges more than 10 individuals breached foreign enlistment laws A human rights group has launched an attempt to mount a private prosecution alleging British citizens unlawfully went to fight for Israel....
  • 'Make or break moment': Supreme Court is set to rule on Trump using troops in U.S. cities
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
    It's the first time the Supreme Court will decide whether the president has the power to deploy troops in American cities over the objections of local and state officials.
  • Gaza doctors struggle to investigate 'signs of torture' on unnamed dead returned by Israel
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from BBC News - Middle East
    Photographs show bodies with multiple signs of injury and wrists tied behind their backs.
  • UAE Hajj pilgrimage 1447H / 2026 health requirements: Find out who can perform Hajj next year
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    Ahead of the 2026 Hajj season, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have implemented strict new health regulations. Emirati pilgrims must now pass comprehensive medical exams, barring those with chronic or debilitating conditions. This ensures a...
  • UAE signs $1.8 billion deal with US firm to boost global critical minerals supply
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    The UAE and U.S. governments, alongside Orion Resource Partners, have launched a $1.8 billion investment to boost global access to critical minerals like lithium and copper. This initiative, through the Orion Critical Mineral Consortium,...
  • ‘Coalition of the willing’ meets in London as Kyiv presses for more missiles
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East
    Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is in London this Friday for a meeting of the country’s key supporters, where Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to call on Europe to deliver more long-range missiles to help Kyiv...
  • Israel launches air strike in Gaza allegedly targeting Islamic Jihad militant
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
    Israel's military on Saturday said it had launched an air strike in the Gaza Strip despite the ongoing US-brokered ceasefire, saying it was targeting a "terrorist" allegedly belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group. 
  • UAE, Oman sign agreement for first cross border freight rail link between Abu Dhabi and Sohar
    Saturday, October 25, 2025 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    The UAE and Oman have signed a landmark agreement to establish the first cross-border freight rail link connecting Abu Dhabi and Sohar. Operated by Noatum Logistics on Hafeet Rail’s network, the service will run seven container trains...
  • What’s Left to Be Done in the Gaza Cease-Fire Deal
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
    Israel and Gaza have signed a cease-fire that mediators hope will bring two years of deadly war to an end. The deal is based on the first phase of President Trump’s plan, but Phase 2 remains uncertain. David Halbfinger, our Jerusalem...
  • Zelensky pushes EU to unlock €140bn in frozen Russian assets
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Middle East
    Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday urged European leaders to quickly allow his country to use €140 billion in frozen Russian assets to repair the damage caused by the three-year war with Russia.
  • At a Mass Burial in Gaza, Palestinians Mourn the Unknown Dead
    Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
    Under the terms of a cease-fire deal, Israel and Hamas have been exchanging remains, but Gaza’s medical authorities have not been able to identify many of them.
  • Dubai real estate giant DAMAC Properties enters Iraq with Phase One of their landmark project
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    Dubai's DAMAC Properties has launched its first project in Iraq, DAMAC Hills Baghdad, a luxury master community near the international airport. This expansion into Iraq, a key part of the company's regional growth strategy, aims to meet...
  • Who Were the 2,000 Palestinians Freed by Israel?
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
    Under the cease-fire deal, Israel released 250 Palestinians serving long sentences for violent attacks. More than 1,700 others had been detained in Gaza and held without charge.
  • Palestinian factions say they agree to let independent technocrat committee run Gaza
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    Administration will manage basic services ‘in cooperation with Arab brothers and international institutions’, says joint statement The main Palestinian factions have said they have agreed that an independent committee of technocrats...
  • UK’s biggest weapons firm BAE grounds ‘lifeline’ aircraft delivering food aid
    Friday, October 24, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    Exclusive: In the year they announced record profits, Britain’s arms maker has revoked licence to fly for planes taking supplies of food to starving people in South Sudan, Somalia and DRC Britain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE...
  • Gaza: 54 unidentified Palestinian bodies returned for mass burial
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
    A collective funeral was held on Wednesday in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, for 54 unidentified Palestinians whose bodies were returned from Israel, the Palestinian Civil Defense (PCD) said. The PCD noted that many of the bodies could not...
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