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Lebanon
Israel strikes Beirut southern suburbs at dawn
The Israeli military said Saturday it had begun striking "Hezbollah infrastructure" in Beirut's southern suburbs after it destroyed a b...
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Business
Middle East war: Global economic fallout
Here are the latest economic events in the Middle East war:
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A French-owned and a Japanese-owned vess...
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Middle East
Iran, US race to find crew member of crashed American fighter jet
Iranian and American forces raced each other Saturday to recover a crew member of the first U.S. fighter jet to go down inside Iran since...
Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group fighting alongside Hamas in Gaza, on Monday slammed U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the war, saying it would fuel further aggression against Palestinians.
"It is a recipe for continued aggression against the Palestinian people. Through this, Israel is attempting — via the United States — to impose what it could not achieve through war," the group said in a statement. "Therefore, we consider the American-Israeli declaration a formula for igniting the region."
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Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan on Tuesday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza.
The eight Arab and Muslim nations said in a joint statement that they "welcome the role of the American president and his sincere efforts aimed at ending the war in Gaza" and "affirm their readiness to engage positively and constructively with the United States and the parties toward finalizing the agreement and ensuring its implementation".
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he did not agree to a Palestinian state during his talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House the previous day.
"Not at all, and it is not written in the agreement. One thing was made clear: We will strongly oppose a Palestinian state," Netanyahu said in a video posted overnight Monday to Tuesday on his Telegram channel.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday laid out a plan to end the war in Gaza and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he backed the proposal.
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President Donald Trump unveiled a wide-ranging Gaza peace plan Monday and won cautious backing from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who warned he was still ready to "finish the job" against Hamas.
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Families of Israeli hostages urged Donald Trump to uphold his proposed deal to end the Gaza war, ahead of the U.S. president's meeting Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Israel's far-right finance minister on Monday insisted the military maintain "full operational freedom" in Gaza, ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Turkey helped evacuate activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla after one of the vessels broke down and began taking on water, organizers and Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu reported Monday.
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A leading Israeli settler said he failed to get assurances from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of a meeting between the premier and U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his threat of imposing steep tariffs on films made outside the United States, claiming his country's industry has been "stolen" by others.
Trump's remarks come shortly after he threatened a slew of new tariffs to be imposed this week on branded pharmaceutical products, furniture, as well as heavy trucks respectively.
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