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The Bushehr nuclear power plant is Iran's first commercial nuclear reactor
China hits out at ‘threats of force’ on Iran as Trump pushes for new nuclear deal
HONG KONG — China, Iran and Russia called for diplomacy over “pressure and threats” and an end to “all illegal unilateral sanctions” following talks on Tehran’s nuclear program on Friday in Beijing, Chinese state media said.The meeting, attended by the three countries’ deputy foreign ministers, comes as Beijing aims to position itself as a power broker on the urgent international security issue, just days after US President Donald Trump said there were two ways to handle Iran: a deal or “militarily.”“The relevant parties should be committed to eliminating the root causes of the current situation and abandon sanctions pressure and threats of force,” China’s Executive Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu said Friday, according to Chinese state media.Countries face pressure...
March 14, 2025

China hits out at ‘threats of force’ on Iran as Trump pushes for new nuclear deal

Syria's president Ahmad Al-Sharaa, center, prepares to sign a temporary constitution for the country in Damascus
Syria's president signs temporary constitution amid ongoing conflict
DAMASCUS — Syria's president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under his group's rule while promising to protect the rights of all Syrians for five years during a transitional phase.The nation's rulers came to power when the former Islamist insurgent group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, overthrew longtime President Bashar al-Assad in a lightning offensive last December. Since then, they have struggled to exert authority across much of Syria, which remains territorially divided and riven by violence.Former HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa is now the country's president. His appointment was announced after a meeting of the armed groups that joined the overthrow of al-Assad, who also agreed to repeal and replace the country's old...
March 14, 2025

Syria's president signs temporary constitution amid ongoing conflict

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has rejected the idea of negotiations with the US over its nuclear program
High stakes as China hosts Iran and Russia for nuclear talks
SINGAPORE — Almost a decade since world powers sealed a historic deal to limit the Iranian nuclear program, this is a crunch moment for Iran and the international community.The country is now closer than ever to being able to make a nuclear bomb.And the agreement — designed to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon — expires later this year."It's a real fork in the road moment," says Dr Sanam Vakil of the London-based think tank Chatham House. "Without meaningful and successful diplomacy we could see Iran weaponize or we could see a military strike against the Islamic Republic."The deal, painstakingly negotiated over nearly two years under Barack Obama's presidency, imposed restrictions on Iran's nuclear activities in return for relief from sanctions...
March 14, 2025

High stakes as China hosts Iran and Russia for nuclear talks

A photo shared by Breaking the Silence, an organization that provides a forum for Israeli soldiers to speak out and verifies their testimony, shows a soldier guarding a Palestinian prisoner, hands bound. Image blurred at source
Israel acknowledges possible use of Palestinian civilians as human shields in Gaza operations
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military is investigating soldiers’ use of Palestinian civilians as human shields during operations in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN on Tuesday night.This is the first time the military has acknowledged that there is “reasonable suspicion” to believe soldiers forced civilians to take part in military operations.CNN has reported on Israeli soldiers forcing civilians in Gaza to enter potentially booby-trapped houses and tunnels in order to avoid putting troops in harm’s way.“In several cases, the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opened investigations after reasonable suspicion arose regarding the use of Palestinians for military missions during the operations,” the IDF said.The military would not confirm how many...
March 13, 2025

Israel acknowledges possible use of Palestinian civilians as human shields in Gaza operations

The incident occurred during the plane's descent into Hurghada in Egypt
EasyJet investigating after pilot reportedly flew too close to mountain
LONDON — EasyJet is investigating an incident in which a pilot reportedly flew too close to a mountain, triggering a warning alarm.The pilot has been stood down from duty by the low-cost carrier pending an investigation into the incident on February 2.According to a report originally in the Sun newspaper but widely picked up by British media, the episode took place as the Airbus A320, which had set off from Manchester, England, descended toward the popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada in Egypt.According to the Sun, the flight came within 771 feet of the mountain’s peak at an altitude of 2,329 feet.There were up to 190 passengers and crew onboard flight EZY2251 when a siren alert sounded in the cockpit after the Ground Proximity Warning System was triggered, the Sun reported. The pilot...
March 13, 2025

EasyJet investigating after pilot reportedly flew too close to mountain

One of the branches of the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem after it was raided by Israeli police in February
Israel’s pivot to the right brings unprecedented crackdown on freedom of speech
JERUSALEM — Mahmoud Muna looked on in disbelief as plain-clothes Israeli police officers rifled the shelves in his decades-old bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem.The officers were looking for books they deemed “inciteful,” and in the process detained him and his nephew, Ahmad, for 48 hours.The February raid on two branches of the Educational Bookshop – a well-known bookstore popular among Palestinians, Israelis and foreigners – was a widening of what critics describe as a crackdown on free speech in Israel that has intensified since Hamas’ October 7 attack.Witnesses to the raid said police were looking for any book containing the word “Palestine,” a Palestinian flag, its colors, or any symbol of Palestinian national or political identity.Israel’s police said at the time...
March 11, 2025

Israel’s pivot to the right brings unprecedented crackdown on freedom of speech

Syrian fighters and civilians carry the coffin of a member of the Syrian security forces during his funeral in Hama province, Syria on Sunday
Syria leader vows to hunt down those responsible for bloodshed
DAMASCUS — Syria's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has vowed to hold anyone involved in harming civilians accountable after days of clashes where Syrian security forces allegedly killed hundreds of civilians from the Alawite community.A UK-based monitor said 830 civilians were killed in "massacres" targeting Alawites on the west coast on Friday and Saturday.The BBC has been unable to independently verify the death toll of the violence, which is believed to be the worst since the fall of the Assad regime.In a speech broadcast on national TV and posted on social media, Sharaa, whose rebel movement toppled Bashar al-Assad in December, also promised to hunt down Assad loyalists.The fighting has also killed 231 members of the security forces and 250 pro-Assad fighters, according to the...
March 10, 2025

Syria leader vows to hunt down those responsible for bloodshed

A boy and a child carry water in cans at a tent camp for the displaced whose homes were damaged by Israeli strikes in Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, March 7th 2025
Gaza faces worsening conditions as Israel cuts off electricity supply
GAZA — Israel announced on Sunday it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza. It comes after it cut all supplies of goods to the crisis-ravaged Palestinian territory last week.The full effects were not immediately clear, but the arid territory's desalination plants receive power for producing drinking water.Israel last week cut of all supplies of good to the territory of over two million people, in an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest days of its war with Hamas. It seeks to press the militant group to accept an extension of the first phase of their ceasefire. That phase ended last weekend. Israel wants Hamas to release half of the remaining hostages in return for a promise to negotiate a lasting truce.Hamas instead wants to start negotiations on the ceasefire’s...
March 10, 2025

Gaza faces worsening conditions as Israel cuts off electricity supply

Syrian forces head to Latakia after heavy clashes were reported.
Syrian forces and Assad loyalists in deadly clashes in Latakia province
DAMASCUS — Syrian forces loyal to the new government in Damascus have engaged in heavy fighting with remnants of the ousted Assad regime in a coastal area in the country's north-west.Dozens of people have reportedly been killed in the clashes in Latakia province, close to a Russian-controlled airbase.A curfew has been announced until Friday morning.They are some of the most violent attacks on forces linked to Syria's new government since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December.Clashes continue in coastal areas that form the heartland of the Alawite community and are a stronghold of the Assad family.State news agency Sana reported that "huge military reinforcements" were heading to the city of Jableh.Estimations of the number of people killed vary, and the BBC has been...
March 07, 2025

Syrian forces and Assad loyalists in deadly clashes in Latakia province

Palestinian children in Gaza gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen
Gaza food prices soar after Israel halts aid deliveries
GAZA — Food prices in Gaza have risen sharply and aid food parcels could soon run out after Israel blocked the entry of humanitarian aid, the UN's humanitarian agency said.OCHA's partners reported that flour and vegetable prices had more than doubled in some cases, with Gazans telling the BBC the same.If the blockade continued, "at least 80 community kitchens may soon run out of stock" and remaining food parcels that "will support 500,000 people, will soon run out", OCHA said.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose to stop aid at the weekend, accusing Hamas of stealing supplies and refusing a US proposal to extend the Gaza ceasefire. A Hamas spokesman said the halt was "cheap blackmail".The foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK issued a...
March 06, 2025

Gaza food prices soar after Israel halts aid deliveries

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