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Global Energy Security: Western Dependence on Gulf Oil and the Role of Regional Mediation in Middle Eastern Conflicts
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs - Washington D.C.
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July 8, 2025
Introduction The 1973 Oil Embargo first revealed the deep interconnection between Middle Eastern stability and global energy security. In response to US military support to Israel during the Yom Kippur war against Egypt and Syria, the Organization...
Israeli Haredi school accused of segregating Sephardi students
The New Arab
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July 9, 2025
A Haredi girls' seminary in Jerusalem is facing backlash for discriminating against Sephardi Jews [Getty] A leading Haredi girls' seminary in Jerusalem is setting up a separate educational track for students from a Sephardi background. Beit Yaakov...
Eight killed in Israeli air strike in northern Gaza
Middle East Eye
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July 11, 2025
Medical sources in al-Shifa Hospital has told Al Jazeera that at least eight people were killed in an Israeli attack on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Jabalia in northern Gaza. The attack left many others injured.
Education Department, HHS notify Harvard's accreditor of Title VI violation
Just the News
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July 9, 2025
The departments of Education and Health and Human Services notified Harvard University's accreditors Wednesday of the Ivy League school's Title VI violation. Last week, HHS announced that an agency investigation found Harvard had violated Title VI...
Syrian government and SDF still at odds over merging forces
Shafaq News
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2025-07-09T21:40:24+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Damascus On Wednesday, US Ambassador to Turkiye Tom Barrack, who is also a special envoy to Syria, clarified that there are still significant differences between the Syrian...
Integrated resorts set to transform tourism experiences across the Middle East and beyond
Travel Daily News
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July 8, 2025
The launch of the Wynn Al Marjan Island in Ras Al Khaimah and Cinnamon Life’s City of Dreams development in Sri Lanka is leading a new era for tourism and hospitality in the Middle East and Asia Pacific DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – The growth of...
TBMM Speaker Kurtulmuş outlines path for 'terror-free Türkiye'
Hurriyet Daily News
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SARAJEVO TBMM Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş stressed the need to carefully manage societal psychology in the 'terror-free Türkiye' process, announcing that a parliamentary commission set up after July 15 will include representatives from all parties and...
The number of Turkmen students in the Astrakhan region has increased by 60%
Turkmenportal
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There are currently about three thousand students from Turkmenistan studying in universities and colleges in the Astrakhan region. According to the results of last year, the number of Turkmen students in the region increased by 60%. Issues of...
Teachers’ Union Moves To Cut Ties With ADL Over Gaza War Stance
Media Line
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July 9, 2025
The National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States, voted this week to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), igniting a storm of debate over the role of civil rights groups in public education during...
ASEAN considers Turkiye upgrade to full dialogue partner status
The Sun Daily
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July 11, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR: ASEAN is evaluating the possibility of upgrading Turkiye’s status from a sectoral dialogue partner to a full dialogue partner, according to Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan. He noted that Turkiye has contributed...
Syrians Begin Returning From Lebanon Under UN-Backed Plan In Significant Policy Shift
StratNews Global
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July 9, 2025
Home syria Syrians Begin Returning From Lebanon Under UN-Backed Plan In Significant Policy Shift Returning Syrians will be provided with $100 each in Lebanon and $400 per family upon arrival in Syria, Lebanese Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayed...
A marine engineer’s death in Iran, a misidentified body, and a family's endless wait
The Indian Express
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July 11, 2025
When he heard of his older brother’s death in a workplace accident in Iran, the ground slipped beneath Raghu Mahto’s feet. What followed was an ordeal involving misidentified bodies, bureaucratic apathy, and the long wait for compensation.On March...
Detained Columbia University Student Sues Trump Admin for $20M
The Daily Beast
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July 11, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil has sued the Trump administration for $20 million after spending months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention. The pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student, 30, alleges in a lawsuit filed...
Iran expels half a million Afghans in 16-day stretch since recent conflict with Israel, UN says
Yahoo News
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More than half a million Afghans have been expelled from Iran in the 16 days since the conflict with Israel ended, according to the United Nations, in what may be one of the largest forced movements of population this decade. For months, Tehran...
Turkey: Government silences last critical media outlets
Deutsche Welle
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July 9, 2025
Turkey's freedom of expression and press freedom has been making headlines in Germany for years. The non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders has ranked Turkey 159 out of 180 countries in its global press freedom index 2025. At the...
General : ASEAN, Turkiye Must Speak With One Voice On Gaza, Global Conflicts - Malaysia's FM
Bernama
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July 11, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 (Bernama) -- Describing ASEAN and Turkiye as “natural partners” in championing multilateralism, peace, justice and humanity, Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan stressed the need for both to speak with one...
Turkey blocks X's Grok content for alleged insults to Erdogan
The New Arab
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July 9, 2025
Grok has been slammed for making antisemitic posts and praising Adolf Hitler [Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images] A Turkish court on Wednesday blocked access to some content from Grok, developed by Elon Musk-founded company xAI, after...
Israel Intensifies Demolitions in Tulkarem Refugee Camp
teleSUR
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July 9, 2025 Hour: 3:01 pm Israeli occupation forces continued their large-scale demolition campaign in the Tulkarem refugee camp on Wednesday, razing homes and infrastructure in what rights groups are calling a systematic effort to forcibly...
Western Soft-Power Agencies Established a Support Front for Armed Insurrection in Syria by Al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels
CovertAction Magazine
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July 10, 2025
Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, circa 2014, inside Damascus, Syria. [Source: unrwa.org] [This is the second of a two-part series. Part I can be found here—Editors] From 2011 to 2016, demonstrations in Syria against the Ba’athist government...
Iranian mom snatched by ICE while gardening freed after Republican intervenes
Raw Story
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July 9, 2025
An Iranian mother who was seized by ICE while gardening at her New Orleans home has been freed after a prominent Republican intervened with the Department of Homeland Security. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) told media outlet WDSU that...