MidEast

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has called on the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to stop bias against Israel at the UN by singling out “the world’s only Jewish state,” Haaretz reported. Speaking at a meeting with Guterres, the President said: “This targeting of Israel, this singling out of the world’s...

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American comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brien is visiting Israel for the first time, kicking off his trip in Tel Aviv, where he met with Israelis, tasted local food, and soaked up the August sun, The Washington Post reported Sunday. In a video posted on Facebook, which was filmed...

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Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency reported Sunday that Qatar’s ambassador to the Islamic Republic is back in the job, after arriving in Tehran on Friday. Qatar pulled its representative from Iran in early 2016 after attacks on two Saudi Arabian diplomatic posts following the Saudi execution of a prominent Shiite...

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At a rally in the German city of Cologne on Saturday, attended by some 20,000 Kurds from different parts of the world expressing support for an independent Kurdistan in northern Iraq, the Israeli flag was raised in solidarity with the Jewish state. Kurdish people from Greater Kurdistan that includes all...

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On Friday, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley condemned the UN peacekeeping commander in Lebanon for turning a blind eye to the “massive flow of illegal weapons” to Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon and called for the force to do more to stop these activities, Haaretz reported Sunday. The...

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Israel has sent six tons of food aid to a drought-stricken village in South Sudan, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. The aid, which was coordinated by the Foreign Ministry’s Agency for International Development Cooperation and the Israeli embassy in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, was distributed by Israel’s...

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