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Israel has detained dozens of Syrians. Families are desperate for answers.
@AP w/@malakharb @AlsayedGhaith @AliHajSuleiman
apnews.com/article/syria-…
@AP w/@malakharb @AlsayedGhaith @AliHajSuleiman
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🚨🇪🇭 URGENTE | EL FRENTE POLISARIO DECLARA EL ESTADO DE MOVILIZACIÓN GENERAL
La Secretaría Nacional del Frente POLISARIO, reunida de urgencia bajo la presidencia del presidente Brahim Ghali, ha decidido declarar el estado de movilización general ante la escalada militar su concentración de tropas, armamento y equipos militares a lo largo del del muro de la ocupación.
La dirección nacional llama al pueblo saharaui a mantenerse alerta, unido y preparado frente a cualquier amenaza, y exige a Naciones Unidas y a la Unión Africana asumir sus responsabilidades ante el riesgo de una escalada militar en la región.
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Last year, I found Esther & her newborn baby sleeping outside a gas station in Riyadh. They had nowhere else to go.
Now, she has been sentenced to 100 lashes for giving birth outside of marriage.
An update to our project on undocumented children in KSA:
nytimes.com/2026/11/10/wor…
Now, she has been sentenced to 100 lashes for giving birth outside of marriage.
An update to our project on undocumented children in KSA:
nytimes.com/2026/11/10/wor…
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Piracy is on the rise between the Red Sea & Indian Ocean as wars in Yemen, the Horn of Africa & Iran destabilize lands surrounding shipping lanes crucial for the global economy.
@AP’s @stmcneil got rare access to the EU naval mission in the Gulf of Aden apnews.com/article/piracy…
@AP’s @stmcneil got rare access to the EU naval mission in the Gulf of Aden apnews.com/article/piracy…
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Diadié Camara fled slavery in Mauritania & tried to find a new life in the US. He was arrested in 2024 while crossing the border, but a judge ruled that he couldn’t be returned to Mauritania … He was later put on a flight to Nouakchott anyway. nytimes.com/2026/11/09/wor…
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Last week, I made my way to the small town of Rankous where a funeral was being held for five young men killed by the Syrian security forces, which claim they had links to the Islamic State.
The incident has deepened a sense of loss and injustice in a town that gave hundreds of lives to the revolution. Many feel that their community has been left on the margins of the post-Assad order, with little representation in state institutions or support to rebuild.
As Syria approaches the second anniversary of Assad’s fall, grievances are quietly growing among many war-scarred communities across the country, with groups like IS poised to exploit them.
middleeasteye.net/news/deadly-ra…
The incident has deepened a sense of loss and injustice in a town that gave hundreds of lives to the revolution. Many feel that their community has been left on the margins of the post-Assad order, with little representation in state institutions or support to rebuild.
As Syria approaches the second anniversary of Assad’s fall, grievances are quietly growing among many war-scarred communities across the country, with groups like IS poised to exploit them.
middleeasteye.net/news/deadly-ra…
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BREAKING: Israel's election commission says it has found no fraud in polls conducted on Oct. 27, dealing a blow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims that Arab-led parties "stole" the vote. apnews.com/article/israel…
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A Montana ballot initiative to ban corporate money in state politics has passed, according to the AP.
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NEW: The AP analyzed months of satellite images and found:
- Iran’s 115+ strikes hit more than 2 dozen U.S. bases
- caused billions in equipment damage
- focused attacks on aircraft hangars and radars, clearing the way for further strikes on warehouses, troop housing and more.
- Iran’s 115+ strikes hit more than 2 dozen U.S. bases
- caused billions in equipment damage
- focused attacks on aircraft hangars and radars, clearing the way for further strikes on warehouses, troop housing and more.
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A Jewish candidate running with an Islamist party isn’t unprecedented either. Here is @AP’s story about a Jewish sewing machine salesman who ran with Ennahda in Tunisia in 2018.apnews.com/article/71f3ba…
Segalovitz & Abbas’ partnership has exposed a stark asymmetry in Israeli politics. An Arab party welcomed a Jewish lawmaker into its ranks, yet Jewish-led opposition parties have thus far balked at forming a coalition with Arab parties to remove Netanyahu. apnews.com/article/israel…
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Segalovitz & Abbas’ partnership has exposed a stark asymmetry in Israeli politics. An Arab party welcomed a Jewish lawmaker into its ranks, yet Jewish-led opposition parties have thus far balked at forming a coalition with Arab parties to remove Netanyahu. apnews.com/article/israel…
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יניר יגנה בוואלה: במשך שנים נחשב ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו לדמות אהודה בקרב תושבים ביישוב הבדואי תראבין א-צאנע, הסמוך למשמר הנגב. בבחירות לכנסת ב-2022 זכתה מפלגת הליכוד ב-58.85% מהקולות הכשרים ביישוב. אלא שכעת, בעקבות המבצעים המשטרתיים הנרחבים שנערכו במקום, נשמעת בקרב תושבים ביקורת חריפה על נתניהו, שלדבריהם העניק גיבוי למדיניות השר לביטחון לאומי איתמר בן גביר, כך נודע היום (ראשון) לוואלה.
"לא יהיה מה שהיה", אמר לוואלה תושב היישוב, שהצביע בעבר לליכוד. "לדעתי לא יהיה קול אחד לליכוד בתראבין". לדבריו, נתניהו איבד את תמיכת התושבים בעקבות התנהלות השר לביטחון לאומי והגיבוי שקיבל מראש הממשלה. התושב העריך כי חלק גדול מהקולות שניתנו בעבר לליכוד יעבור בבחירות הבאות למפלגות הערביות. "אצלנו לא יהיה אפילו קול אחד לנתניהו, רק בגלל בן גביר", אמר.
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Serial killer Ted Bundy is linked to another Utah teenager's 1974 murder through new DNA testing, prosecutor says. apnews.com/article/ted-bu…
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Eisenkot (n) – surname, orig. North Africa
From Berber aznkʷḍ (“gazelle; young noble man”). Compare Moroccan Arabic أزنكض (ʔazenkaḍ), إزنكاض (ʔizenkāḍ)
Spelling likely distorted by clerks upon immigrants' arrival in Israel due to similarity to German/Yiddish "eisen" (iron)
From Berber aznkʷḍ (“gazelle; young noble man”). Compare Moroccan Arabic أزنكض (ʔazenkaḍ), إزنكاض (ʔizenkāḍ)
Spelling likely distorted by clerks upon immigrants' arrival in Israel due to similarity to German/Yiddish "eisen" (iron)
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The Sudanese refugee population in Chad has reached 1.4 million. Some have lived there for multiple generations, with no path to return to Sudan, to build a stable life where they are, or to go anywhere else reut.rs/3WNiLg0
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“You know the one thing I never expected in middle age was to become a professional defender of Muslims.” My dinner with Tucker Carlson in this week’s FT Weekend Magazine. @FT @ftweekend ft.com/content/98417e…
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Read my exclusive interview with Gadi Eisenkot, the man best positioned to dislodge Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel's Oct. 27 election.
“I feel like it’s a historic mission—to save the state of Israel,” he says.
time.com/article/2026/1…
“I feel like it’s a historic mission—to save the state of Israel,” he says.
time.com/article/2026/1…
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Exclusive: In December 2025, the US-sanctioned tanker Reef arrived in Myanmar waters with some 113,000 barrels of fuel backed by sham paperwork. In reality, Reef carried jet fuel from Iran to Myanmar.
Details of how Myanmar disguised purchases of Iranian jet fuel, as well as the entities involved in the transactions, are reported here for the first time reut.rs/4eyLTxJ
Details of how Myanmar disguised purchases of Iranian jet fuel, as well as the entities involved in the transactions, are reported here for the first time reut.rs/4eyLTxJ
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For months, @AP photographer @OhadZwigenberg has documented the lives of ultra-Orthodox students at one of Israel’s most prominent yeshivas as Israel’s draft dispute looms over the upcoming Oct. 27 election
apnews.com/photo-essay/is…
apnews.com/photo-essay/is…
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