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Israel’s security cabinet approves measures to strengthen control over West Bank

February 8, 2026 admin

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in a statement, announced the decisions that would make it easier for Jewish settlers to force Palestinians to give up land. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s security cabinet on Sunday (February 8, 2026) approved measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the…

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Israel to ban 37 aid groups operating in Gaza

December 31, 2025 admin

Israel has said 37 aid organisations will be banned from operating in Gaza from Thursday (January 1, 2026) unless they comply with guidelines requiring detailed information on Palestinian staff, drawing criticism from the United Nations and the European Union. Several NGOs have told AFP the new rules will have a major impact on food and…

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Pakistan is back in West Asia’s good graces

December 23, 2025 admin

‘There is no grand strategy at play for Field Marshal Munir’. Photo: Special Arrangement American scholar, the late Stephen P. Cohen, had once pontificated that Pakistan often finds itself in a place of political success because it negotiates with the world by putting a gun to its own head. While this has been proven true…

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Watch: Israel’s Netanyahu seeks pardon in years-long corruption trial

December 1, 2025 admin

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally submitted a pardon request amid ongoing corruption trials, calling the long-running cases “tearing the country apart”. Source link

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Hamas to return Israeli hostage’s body, part of fragile ceasefire

November 25, 2025 admin

Red Cross personnel, escorted by Hamas militants, wait to head towards an area within the so-called “yellow line” to which Israeli troops withdrew under the ceasefire, as Hamas says it continues to search for the bodies of deceased hostages seized during the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in Gaza City, on November 12, 2025….

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Israel strikes Gaza as Palestinians pin hopes on Trump’s Gaza plan

October 5, 2025 admin

Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip overnight and on Sunday (October 5, 2025), destroying several residential buildings, witnesses said, as Palestinians desperately awaited implementation of a U.S. plan to end the war. U.S. President Donald Trump, who had called for an end to the bombing, said on Saturday (October 4, 2025)…

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Indian academia in times of genocide

September 9, 2025 admin

In August, as part of a group of 500 scientists and academics, we petitioned the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) regarding Israel’s participation. The IOAA, held in Mumbai from 11-21 August with 63 countries participating, is one of the major science Olympiads designed to identify talented high-school students. The Olympiads are a matter…

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Trump says U.S. in ‘very deep’ negotiations with Hamas, urges release of hostages

September 5, 2025 admin

People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas and calling for the end of the war in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) | Photo Credit: Leo Correa U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday (September 5, 2025) that Washington was…

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Killing of journalists in Gaza shocking: India

August 27, 2025 admin

A person shows the blood-stained camera that freelance journalist Mariam Dagga, 33, was carrying when she was killed in a double Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on August 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP India on Wednesday (August 27, 2025) described as “shocking” and “deeply regrettable” the killing of…

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Israel grieves as Hamas turns over the bodies of four Gaza hostages

February 20, 2025 admin

A militant stands next to the coffins containing the bodies of hostages, from right to left, Shiri Bibas, her two children, Ariel and Kfir and Oded Lifshitz, who was 83 when he was abducted, before they are handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip on February 20, 2025. | Photo…

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