The European Comission said on Monday it was reviewing its entire development aid portfolio for the Palestiniansworth 691 million euros (US$ 728.66 million), and which immediately suspended all payments after the Hamas attack against Israel. “The magnitude of the terror and brutality against Israel and its people is a turning point,” said Oliver Varhelyi, EU […]
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Israel-Palestine war tests China’s real weight in the Middle East
China This year, she achieved unprecedented success both as a diplomat and as a mediator in the diplomatic reconciliation between Iran and Saudi Arabia, an achievement that now leads to the question of whether the Asian giant could play a useful role in stopping the serious situation in Israel and Palestine. For observers, the will […]
Gold rises as Middle East conflict drives refuge demand
The price of gold rose more than 1% on Monday, as the military conflict between the forces Israelis and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas increased political uncertainty in the Middle East, prompting safe-haven buying in investments such as bullion. Israel bombed the Palestinian enclave of Gaza on Sunday, killing hundreds of people in retaliation for […]
War between Israel and Hamas: the death toll rose to 700
The dead in Israel due to the multiple attack launched yesterday by surprise by the Islamist group Hamas exceed 700, as the second day of war with the Palestinian militias in Gaza progresses. The Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed that there are also more than 2,243 injured people in Israeli hospitals, 365 of them in […]
G20: launch ambitious plan to boost trade between the Middle East, India and Europe
Several countries of the G20 They presented on Saturday an ambitious plan to develop an infrastructure link between India, the Middle East and Europe that will boost the trade in an area that accounts for almost a third of the world economy. United States, Saudi Arabia, the European Union, the United Arab Emirates and others […]
“The heat kills us”: what it is like to work with 50°C
Middle East and the north of Africaparticularly exposed to the impacts of climate changeexperience extreme temperatures, which does not mean that in countries like Iraq, Syria, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia there are people forced to work in oppressive heat. Blacksmith in Syria: “The heat kills us.” In his modest workshop in the city of Idlib, […]
The US and Saudi Arabia call for a new ceasefire after new fighting in Sudan
Saudi Arabia and USA urged the opposing sides in Sudan to agree and “apply effectively” a new ceasefire, in a statement released Sunday amid renewed fighting in the northeast African nation. Sudan was plunged into chaos in mid-April when fighting broke out between the army, led by General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, […]
Meeting begins to consider Syria’s return to the Arab League
The meeting between the foreign ministers of the nine most important Arab countries began on Friday night in the Saudi city of Jeddah to discuss the return of Syria to the Arab leaguean organization from which Damascus was banned more than a decade ago for the brutal repression with which it responded to the popular […]
The agonizing death of the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine
Expulsions and demolitions of Palestinian family homes in East Jerusalem, and the approval of more settler settlements there and elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, doom the two-state solution, seen for decades as the only way out of the peace process in middle East Come in Israel Y Palestine. “Prepare to attend the funeral of […]