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Two successive explosions struck one of Syria’s most sensitive locations at a particularly delicate moment for the country’s authorities, occurring about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from where French President Emmanuel Macron was staying during his…

Saudi Arabia’s transformation is moving at a pace that is difficult to appreciate from a distance. Across the Kingdom, organizations are digitizing services, adopting AI, modernizing infrastructure, expanding cloud-enabled operations, and building new customer experiences at remarkable speed. This is not simply technology modernization. It is part of a wider national shift: a more diversified,…

The letdown after Saudi Arabia's World Cup run has naturally led to a lot of discussion. A big part of the talk has been about the coach's decisions, who was picked to play, the team's strategy, and how individual players did. But these are just a few pieces of a much bigger puzzle. There's more…

MAKKAH — Advisor at the Royal Court, member of the Council of Senior Scholars, and Imam and Preacher of the Grand Mosque Sheikh Saleh bin Abdullah bin Humaid affirmed that Saudi Arabia’s Hajj experience represents a global model for serving pilgrims in line with sustainable humanitarian and national values. He noted that this is reflected…

DUBAI: Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee has refused an invitation to attend an upcoming literary festival in Israel and has criticized the country’s actions in Gaza in a strongly worded letter to organizers. Writing ahead of the Jerusalem International Writers Festival, Coetzee said: “It will take many years for Israel to clear its name.”

A new message from Egypt national team coach Hossam Hassan has sparked widespread debate on social media after he once again voiced support for Gaza, just days after dedicating Egypt’s historic qualification for the Round…

Mamdani also referred to AIPAC as "monsters" and referred to Israel's military actions as 'genocide.' The post Mamdani reaffirms opposition to Israel as a Jewish state in ABC interview appeared first on World Israel News .

No one prepares you for that moment. For that phone call. For the instant you feel the life you have built, with care, patience, and love, beginning to collapse. “I’m sorry... we found cancer cells.”…

By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT, June 24 (Reuters) - The biggest casualty of the U.S.-Iran deal may not be Israel's Iran strategy, but the political brand Benjamin Netanyahu spent decades constructing as the Israeli leader who could uniquely bend Washington to his will on Iran, analysts, former U.S. officials and diplomats say.

A frenzied push for artificial intelligence dominance comes with a different kind of cost for Meta, where massive layoffs, employee surveillance and departures have fueled reports of a heated internal climate. As Meta spends billions…

'The Iranian regime will now receive more money from this deal in a single year than Israel receives in 10 years,' wrote Mark Levin. The post Levin: Israel aid critics suddenly silent on billions for Iran appeared first on World Israel News .

Sweden's environment minister brought her baby to an EU meeting Thursday, in a barrier-breaking move she said showed it was possible to be both "a present minister and a present mother". Romina Pourmokhtari arrived at…

There is a particular irony — the kind that history savors — in the fact that the United States set out in February 2026 to destroy Iran as a regional power and instead ended up cementing its dominance. This is not a paradox – it is a pattern. Anyone who has paid attention to American…

Former US President Barack Obama said while he is happy to see a ceasefire, it seems like the United States is “worse off” now than before President Donald Trump launched the war on Iran in…

ISLAMABAD - The official 14-point memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States does not read like the document Washington and Tel Aviv said they were fighting to impose. It does not announce regime change in Tehran. It does not place Iran’s missile program on the table.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — whose work helped propel artificial intelligence — stressed in an Associated Press interview Tuesday that society needs to change with the advent of AI, arguing that a fuller embrace of…

Earlier this week, the United States Department of War restored the US Indo-Pacific Command’s name to the US Pacific Command, reversing an eight-year-old title change and restoring operational clarity. The announcement comes in the same week that a growing chorus of commentators is arguing that America just lost the war in Iran: ● The Atlantic…

After two years of steadily improving ties that appeared to be moving toward the restoration of full diplomatic relations, Egypt and Iran now seem to be facing a major setback. Egypt views Iran's current war…

The 2026 G7 summit, in Evian, France, marks India’s 13th participation as a guest nation and Prime Minister Modi’s seventh appearance as India’s representative since 2019. These repeated invitations highlight a central reality: India is too important to be excluded from major global conversations, even though it remains outside the world’s most exclusive club of…

At first glance, Tehran’s retaliation for Israeli attacks in Lebanon might seem like a reckless act that risks rekindling a devastating regional war. For Iran, those strikes were necessary — part of a more aggressive…

The QME must rest less on American political moods and more on Israeli industrial sovereignty, technology leverage, and regional security architecture. The post Israel’s qualitative military edge must be Israeli appeared first on World Israel News .

Bernadette Chirac, who has died aged 93, stood by her late husband, former French president Jacques Chirac, during 12 years as first lady, but also forged her own, more discreet, political career. Quiet, traditionally Roman…

Since the beginning of the Iran war, Saudi Arabia has been grappling with how best to respond to the expansion of Middle East conflict. Having issued condemnations of Tehran’s strikes on the kingdom – and other Gulf states – in response to the initial US and Israeli action in late February, Saudi Arabia has since…

One week after the Iranian Revolution declared victory on February 11, 1979, two photographs emerged from Tehran that, in retrospect, help explain many of the storms that would later sweep the Middle East, from Iran’s…

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Since the beginning of the Iran war, Saudi Arabia has been grappling with how best to respond to the expansion of Middle East conflict.Having issued condemnations of ...

Environmental causes face an uphill battle. Overshadowed in politics, overlooked in budgets and defeated in courts, nature is often treated as a niche concern, second to more pressing matters. Two Frenchmen -- one a philosopher,…

(MENAFN - Mid-East Info) By Feras A. Al-Al Shaikh, Regional Director, Saudi Arabia, North Gulf, Levant Adrian Pickering, Regional General Manager, Middle East and North Africa Martin Lentle, VP ...

Most people in today’s Middle East were born after 1979. Yet they often overlook how profoundly that year shaped their countries, their stability, and their daily lives. It unleashed storms, wars, and leaders whose ambitions…

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Strategic autonomy is having a moment.European leaders are invoking it to justify a historic defense buildup; India's foreign ministry has made it the organizing ...

Albert Manifold on Wednesday hit out after being sacked as chairman of British energy giant BP, saying that he would "not allow a false narrative to go unchallenged.” "I dispute entirely the characterization of my…

(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) The author is president of UAE Safety and Emergency Security Association and professor of sustainable development at the American University of Sharjah. He is former UAE ...

An AI system will work with humans to make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within 12 months and tradespeople will be helped by bipedal robots in two years, according to the co-founder of Anthropic. Jack Clark…

(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) The author is managing director of Dubai-based Rayad Group, which advises families and institutions on establishing and structuring operations internationally.The latest UBS ...

Pep Guardiola is more than a football manager, using his high-profile platform to highlight causes close to his heart. Legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly may have believed football was "much, much more important" than life…

(MENAFN - AsiaNet News) Retired US Army Colonel and geopolitical risk advisor Douglas Macgregor on Saturday remained bewildered over the US' demand for Muslim countries to join the Abraham Accords. ...

The World Cup represents football's pinnacle, the ultimate prize every young player dreams of winning. But whether the tournament is where the very best football is played is a different question entirely. Elite European clubs…

Washington risks becoming trapped once again in a cycle of talks, temporary understandings, violations, and renewed crises with a regime that has consistently acted in bad faith. The post Why any deal with Iran is a mistake – appeared first on World Israel News .

Spain's boycott of the Eurovision song contest over Israel's war in Gaza puts it "on the right side of history", Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday, ahead of the final in Austria. "In the…

Al-Ati said Saudi Arabia is preparing to lead what he called an “Arab-Islamic bloc” alongside Pakistan, Turkey, and Qatar. The post Saudi analyst slams Trump as weak ‘paper tiger’ who didn’t finish off Iran, says Saudis won’t make peace with Israel appeared first on World Israel News .

Hollywood should be ashamed of the way it has treated stars like Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo for opposing Israel's war in Gaza, a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury said Tuesday,…

(MENAFN - The Conversation) As negotiations to end the Iran war continued on May 25, Donald Trump made a series of phone calls in which he pressed key leaders from the Middle East to join the ...

Yasser Arafat was the first foreign leader to visit Iran after Khomeini’s 1979 Iranian Revolution. At the time, he believed the Palestinian cause was gaining a powerful new ally in revolutionary Iran, which immediately closed…

There is a particular kind of silence that follows a war’s opening salvos — the silence of think-tank papers being quietly archived, of cable-news predictions being scrubbed from the chyron, of confident assurances that “this time it will be different” colliding with the stubborn evidence that, in fact, it never is. Twelve weeks into the…

A new opinion poll shows that Israelis, for the first time since he became their leader, no longer view Benjamin Netanyahu as the most suitable figure for prime minister, with Naftali Bennett overtaking him. The…

(MENAFN - Caribbean News Global) By Ron Paul After Kevin Warsh was confirmed as Federal Reserve chairman last week, he received a stark reminder of the challenges facing the central bank. The ...

(MENAFN - AsiaNet News) New Delhi [India], May 23 (ANI): Former Foreign Secretary of India and Ambassador to the United States, Nirupama Rao, has provided a comprehensive analysis of the ...

The war that came to be known as the “40-Day War” between the United States and Iran, which began on February 28, 2026, and continues to this day, has posed a profound test for the Gulf Arab states, of which geography has compelled to bear the consequences of Iran’s policies since the 1979 revolution. This…

Ghostwritten tirades, em-dashed bluster, and cartoonish AI fantasies reveal Trump’s pathetic unraveling