Arab World
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Unpacking Indian Supreme Court’s verdict on same-sex marriage
India’s top court has declined to grant legal recognition to same-sex marriages, drawing criticism from LGBTQ rights activists, who dubbed…
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World leaders attend Cairo peace summit to ‘de-escalate’ Israel-Hamas war
Leaders and top officials from more than a dozen countries have gathered in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for a conference…
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‘Suffering and smiling’: Festivalgoers decry state of affairs in Nigeria
Last Wednesday, Nigerian rapper CDQ pranced onto the stage at a Lagos bar as hundreds of people threw their hands…
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Israel doubles number of Palestinian prisoners to 10,000 in two weeks
Israel has arrested so many Palestinians in the two weeks since the start of its bombardment of the besieged Gaza…
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‘We went through hell’: Palestinian dual citizens hoping to leave Gaza
Nineteen-year-old Yousif Abu Shaaban and four immediate family members had been waiting for days for their evacuation from the besieged…
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Atop a Jerusalem mountain, a cafe of rare coexistence in a divided city
Aroma Espresso Bar, a trendy cafe, straddled between the Hebrew University campus and a sprawling hospital complex and perched 834…
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Gaza’s next big threat: Cholera, infectious diseases amid Israeli blockade
Waseem Mushtaha’s four children have been out of school for almost two weeks. Instead of learning mathematics or geography, they…
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Angry Egyptians denounce staged pro-Palestine rallies amid Israel-Hamas war
On a sunny Friday in Cairo, buses waving both the Palestinian and the Egyptian flags arrive at El-Nasr road in…
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MBS, France’s President discuss need to avoid ‘repercussions’ of Gaza violence
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call from the French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, Saudi…
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Hamas says it is working with mediators to ‘close the civilian file’
Gaza’s militant group Hamas said on Friday it was working with “all mediators to implement the movement’s decision to close…
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