February 8, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Just over 220,000 migrants were detected trying to cross into Europe illegally in the first 11 months of 2024, according to Frontex data. That represents a decrease of about 40 per cent from 2023, and is several orders of size smaller than the numbers seen in 2015, when around 1 …
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February 8, 2025 Eurasia
Here’s the full interview that I gave to Sputnik Brasil about USAID, excerpts of which were published in their report titled “’Arma principal da guerra híbrida’: o que muda na política externa dos EUA com o fim da USAID?” How has USAID been used by the government of United States …
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February 8, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
A senior Trump administration official met Egyptian leaders in Cairo last week to discuss a plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza. The United States has reportedly used Egypt’s water security crisis as leverage to pressure Cairo into accepting the plan of forcibly relocation of Gaza’s Palestinians, according to The New …
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February 8, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Trump stunned the world today with his blithely unapologetic plans for the mass ethnic cleansing and terraforming of Gaza, after receiving a “golden pager” memento from a smirking Netanyahu—a more cretinous tableau could hardly be imagined: The amount of contradiction leaves one’s head spinning like a dreidel. “No one can …
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February 8, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Latest Developments Turkey and Syria to Agree on a Defense Partnership: Syria’s new transitional President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are expected to discuss a joint defense pact that will include establishing Turkish airbases in the vast central region in Central Syria as well as training for …
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February 8, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Lebanon’s health ministry reported on Sunday that Israeli forces, after missing the agreed withdrawal deadline, killed 24 Lebanese civilians and injured 130 more after opening fire on protesters. The incident came hours before news broke that the deadline was extended until 18 February. Tensions had flared in southern Lebanon as …
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February 8, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Images verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad unit shed light on Israel’s plans after it expanded area of control in Syria. Israel is building military bases in the demilitarised buffer zone with Syria, according to satellite images seen by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit. The images were taken between December 19, …
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February 7, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
President Donald Trump suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” Trump’s brazen proposal Tuesday appears certain to roil the next stage of talks meant to extend the …
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February 7, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Washington DC. (Quds News Network)- Republican lawmakers in the US Congress have introduced bills to ban the use of the term “West Bank” in official government documents. The proposed legislation would replace the phrase with “Judea and Samaria,” the zionist biblical name used by Israel to refer to the occupied …
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February 7, 2025 Eurasia, Middle Orient
They’re there because they have no alternative,” Trump told reporters. “What do they have? It is a big pile of rubble.” These words came from US President Donald Trump as he once again pushed for the forced expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza. His comments suggested that Palestinians should leave their …
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