Search results for ‘middle east’
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Blinken expected to urge Israel to pause its attacks on Gaza
US secretary of state Antony Blinken is travelling back to the Middle East where he is expected to urge Israel to pause its attacks.
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Illustrator Oliver Jeffers on feeling safe, warm and the effects of conflict on children
Even before the latest conflict in the Middle East erupted, a record 110 million people around the world were already displaced by conflict, persecution or the impacts of climate change – that’s according to the UN’s Refugee Agency.
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‘It would be hard for Iran and Hezbollah to stay out of Israel-Hamas war’ says former Israeli peace negotiator
Daniel Levy is President of the US/Middle East Project and a former peace negotiator who worked with previous Israeli prime ministers.
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US Secretary of State returns to Israel to discuss humanitarian aid with Israel’s PM
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been criss-crossing the Middle East – trying to stop the conflict engulfing the region.
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Israel declares ‘complete siege’ of Gaza
Hamas is threatening to execute one captured Israeli for every civilian house bombed without pre-warning. This as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel’s retaliation against Hamas has only just begun and it will change the Middle East.
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‘Extreme devastation and much need’ in Morocco, Red Cross says
We spoke to Hossam Elsharkawi, the Middle East and North African director for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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Why Tunisia is at forefront of migrant crisis (dubbed)
Tunisia is at the forefront of the migrant crisis with unprecedented numbers of people from Africa and the Middle East travelling through the country in the hope of reaching Europe.
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‘They’ve started to give access to people who shouldn’t have access’ says former US intelligence officer
We spoke to Malcolm Nance, a former US intelligence officer with 36 years’ experience, first with the US Navy, then as a contractor working in the Middle East.
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Israeli crackdown in response to attacks on civilians will ‘make the situation worse’, Chatham House analyst says
We spoke to Professor Yossi Mekelberg, Associate Fellow of the Middle East and Africa Programme at Chatham House.
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Will the Iran protests lead to regime change?
In this week’s episode, we speak to the head of middle eastern studies at the Royal United Services Institute, Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi. She discusses whether the regime is weak right now and how worrying it is that as Iran becomes more ostracised from the west, it draws closer to Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
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Is European bias affecting reporting of war in Ukraine?
There have been a host of complaints accusing media outlets of a Euro-centric racial bias, and making poor comparisons between this war and those in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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Syrian refugees struggling to survive in Lebanon
An unprecedented snowstorm has hit large areas of the Middle East, with temperatures plunging lower than they’ve been for 40 years.
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Lebanon ‘not beyond rescue’ with international investment – Chatham House’s Dr Lina Khatib
We were joined by Dr Lina Khatib, the director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House
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Government apologises for failure to commemorate Black and Asian troops
They fought in the name of Britain, but in death “pervasive racism” meant at least 100,000 troops, mainly from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, were not commemorated in the same way as their white comrades, a review by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has found.
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Trump under mounting pressure over impeachment and Syria
US Vice President Mike Pence is being sent to the Middle East to call for an immediate end to Turkey’s attacks on Kurds in Syria.