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Widow of Jamal Khashoggi Is Granted Political Asylum in the U.S.
The successful petition is one of the few recent reminders of the fallout from the killing of Mr. Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist.
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World
Saudis Overwhelmingly Oppose Ties With Israel, Poll Finds
A new poll has found that 96 percent of Saudis believe that Arab countries should cut all ties with Israel to protest the war in Gaza, posing a significant challenge to the Biden administration’s push for Saudi Arabia to establish diplomatic ...
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Newyork
This Might Be What Broke the Deadlock at COP28
When the sultan who presided over the fairly successful climate talks in Dubai looked back on Wednesday at the two-week parley, he pinpointed one day, and one event, that he thought put it on the right path. It was the majlis that he convened this ...
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World
‘Leverage has failed,’ a Saudi official says as Arab countries condemn the U.S. veto.
The United States’ decision to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution that called for an immediate cease-fire in the war in Gaza has sparked frustration among Arab governments that are pushing to end the conflict, with one group of ...
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World
Israel’s Hidden Victims, Arab Bedouins, Were Attacked by Hamas Too
At least 17 died in the Hamas attacks, and many more in the impoverished community have since lost their livelihoods in Jewish farms that were ransacked.
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World
This Israeli-Hamas War Has Smashed Comforting Assumptions
Some paradigms taken for granted about Israel and the Palestinians, both in Gaza and the West Bank, have been broken. So has the idea that Washington can ignore the Middle East.
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World
Passion for Palestinian Cause Had Faded, but Violence in Gaza Reignited It
The Israeli bombardment of Gaza, in retaliation for a deadly Hamas attack on southern Israel, brought a new outpouring of support in the Arab world for the Palestinian quest for a state.
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News
Iran’s Call for Oil Embargo on Israel Roils Markets
The prospect of an oil embargo arising from the conflict between Israel and militant groups contributed to a sharp but brief jolt in oil prices on Wednesday. Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, called for Islamic countries to boycott ...
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Newyork
At a Brooklyn Mosque, Palestinians Vent Anguish and Find Fellowship
One congregant remembered fleeing a war with Israel as a child. He mourned a new generation of children experiencing the same fear and violence.
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World
Palestinian Citizens of Israel Are Wary, Weary and Afraid
Fida Shehada is a member of the City Council of Lod, a town of some 84,000 people, perhaps 30 percent of them Arab citizens of Israel. And Ms. Shehada, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, is afraid, to put it mildly, of what may come now, after the ...