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Revealed: The business ties linking Gulf states, Jared Kushner, an Israeli financial giant and a dozen firms named on a UN blacklist of companies accused of facilitating or profiting from illegal settlements. www.middleeasteye.net/news/gulf-st...
Exclusive: Gulf states linked to Israeli businesses on UN settlements blacklist
Backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, Jared Kushner's firm is now biggest shareholder in Israeli company with stakes in businesses operating in occupied territories
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March 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Prevent is facing fresh scrutiny - with David Anderson appointed to review the strategy - after a teenager who killed three young girls in Southport was revealed to have been referred to the programme three times as a schoolboy. www.middleeasteye.net/news/prevent...
Prevent under renewed scrutiny over Southport attack failings
Starmer announces appointment of David Anderson, who has acknowledged criticisms of the counter-extremism programme, as independent Prevent commissioner
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January 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Why did online footage of a 'historic' UN panel in Riyadh disappear? www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-a...
Why did online footage of a 'historic' UN panel in Riyadh disappear?
Video and transcript of Human Rights Watch and Alqst event at UN's Internet Governance Forum in Saudi Arabia deleted hours after it was uploaded
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December 20, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Revealed: How Israel's plan to carve up Syria was thwarted by Assad's downfall www.middleeasteye.net/news/reveale...
Revealed: How Israel's plan to carve up Syria was thwarted by Assad's downfall
Security sources tell MEE Israel wanted to keep Assad in power under Emirati tutelage while establishing military and strategic ties with the Kurds in the northeast and the Druze in the south
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December 20, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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'A tour of Assad’s homes with the Syrians who stormed them' and Middle East Eye's Daniel Hilton in Damascus www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-a...
A tour of Assad’s homes with the Syrians who stormed them
Middle East Eye visits the palaces of the Assad family - and the Russian diplomatic mansion next door
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December 13, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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After genocide report, Amnesty chief calls on Starmer and Lammy to revise Gaza stance www.middleeasteye.net/news/amnesty...
Amnesty chief calls on Starmer and Lammy to revise Gaza genocide stance after major report
Agnes Callamard says it's time for ICC to charge Israeli leaders with the crime of committing genocide in Gaza
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December 6, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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Jack Letts, still detained in Syria, speaks to Canadian TV from Raqqa prison www.middleeasteye.net/news/jack-le...
Jack Letts, still detained in Syria, speaks to Canadian TV from Raqqa prison
British-born Letts, who travelled to Islamic State-controlled territory at the age of 18, has been held in Kurdish custody without charge since 2017
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December 1, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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Syria: Russia fails to halt Aleppo offensive with war planes diverted to Ukraine www.middleeasteye.net/news/russia-...
Russia fails to halt Aleppo offensive with war planes diverted to Ukraine
Syrian rebels have seized large swathes of territory in the north while Moscow is busy with another war
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November 29, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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UK threatened with emergency ban of arms exports to Israel after ICC warrants www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-isra...
UK threatened with emergency ban of arms exports to Israel after ICC warrants
Rights groups warn British government that it is 'now arming suspected war criminals who have been indicted by the world’s pre-eminent criminal court'
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November 27, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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Iraq, hacks and the Kingfish: The scandal that could bring down Prime Minister Sudani www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-su...
Iraq, hacks and the Kingfish: The scandal that could bring down Prime Minister Sudani
An investigation into an alleged plot to spy on senior politicians, MPs and other public figures has cast suspicion on the prime minister's inner circle
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November 26, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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ICC issues arrest warrants for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-iss...
ICC issues arrest warrants for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
Court also issues warrant for Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, six months after a request by prosecutor Karim Khan over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity
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November 21, 2024 at 1:43 PM