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A five-year-old Palestinian boy was arrested by occupying Israeli forces in the village of Burin after they violently stormed the area on Tuesday evening. Backed by occupying forces, dozens of Israeli settlers stormed Burin, south of Nablus in theoccup…

Israeli forces seriously wounded a Palestinian early on Wednesday during a military raid in the refugee camp of Dheisheh, south of Bethlehem. The 27-year-old victim is said to be Diaa Jaafari, a construction worker by trade, unmarried and a former pris…

At least eight civilians were killed and 20 wounded in northern Iraq on Wednesday, when shelling attributed to neighbouring Turkey hit a park in autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, two officials said. Five people were killed in Turkish shelling on the border, …

Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian house early on Tuesday outside the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, south of Jericho. The house belonged to Yousef Karshan, a disabled father of four, and was built on the edge of the refugee camp, a few metres inside th…

Qatar Airways’ chief executive officer has said he is “disappointed” by the way London’s Heathrow Airport has handled disruption to flights this summer. The airport is one of the busiest in the world and has been hit by multiple crises this year includ…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the capacity of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, the single largest link for Russian gas supplies to Europe, could be further reduced due to slow progress in equipment maintenance. Nord Stream 1, w…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday told the leaders of Russia and Iran that he expected their full support in Ankara’s fight against “terrorists” in Syria. Erdogan’s comments during a summit in Tehran followed weeks of warnings that Turk…

Ukraine’s defence minister asked Western nations on Tuesday to scale up drastically its supply of precision rocket systems, calling them a “game-changer” that could allow a counteroffensive against Russian invaders. The United States since mid-June has…

Wildfires in Spain and Morocco have produced more carbon emissions in June and July this year than in the same period of any year since 2003, the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said. Forest fires have swept through parts of S…

France has been home to the largest Muslim population in Europe for many decades, yet it remains a hostile environment for them to live in. In particular, French-Muslim women who wear the headscarf or hijab are immediately vulnerable to Islamophobia. A…