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   China is able to assist the Middle Eastern countries in taking control of their own destinies and removing the long-standing US hegemonic control, according to Chinese experts speaking at a press salon held in Beijing on Monday. The US war crimes and human rights abuses in the Middle East have made more and more Middle Eastern countries, especially those major regional powers, realise the importance of strategic autonomy and development. More than 70 people attended the All-China Journalists Association event with the theme "Human Rights Violations in the Middle East by the United States," including journalists and diplomats from nations like the US, UK, Canada, Russia, Kazakhstan, Japan, and Singapore as well as countries in the Middle East like Iran, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. Chinese scholars who study the Middle East and human rights issues have examined the horrifying records of US human rights abuses in nations like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, including war crime...

   Mossad Director David Barnea briefly emerged from the shadows on August 25 to denounce the upcoming nuclear agreement with Iran as being "based on lies" and the choice to leave open three investigations indicating undeclared Iranian nuclear activity as "an unprecedented national fraud," as was foreseen and reported here in an advance exclusive. In recent days, Barnea briefed Prime Minister Yair Lapid and other top officials on the developing agreement with Iran. He also conducted several rare background briefings with reporters, explaining that even if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) findings were still pending, once the deal was signed, nobody would move an inch to complete them. The Mossad has recently evolved into a pioneer of gender emancipation while waging its covert fight to prevent Iran from nuclearization, a mission that the late agency head Meir Dagan was given with 20 years ago by the then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Last Monday, ...

  Six months have passed since the Kremlin began its assault of Ukraine. The Middle East has been significantly impacted by the largest European war since 1945, which is taking place as Russia blasts its neighbour. The Middle East, a troubled region with many ongoing issues, was not exempt from the repercussions of the war in Europe; there were food shortages and inflation, which raised concerns about political instability amid a struggle between Russia and the West for friends. However, despite the ongoing war, several of the region's nations have benefited greatly and seen their economies grow by hundreds of billions of dollars. Over the past six months, the Middle East has been impacted in the following ways by the Ukraine War: Energy exporters are cashing in Oil prices have risen to a 14-year high as a result of the war. Globally, this has led to skyrocketing inflation and a downturn in the economy, but for the energy-rich Persian Gulf governments, it is welcome news ...

  In the past two years, anyone who has flown over Beirut at night to land in the Lebanese capital has encountered vast areas of blackness punctuated by a few points of light. Despite the fact that Lebanon has had power outages for years, the economic crisis has made energy instability worse and transformed the once-vibrant city of Beirut into a ghost town. The financial crisis that started in October 2019 has also caused a multifaceted problem that is affecting every sector of the nation. Additionally, it has left millions of people suffering in the dark around the nation. People at home have forced to rely on pricey, private diesel generators because the government-run Electricite du Liban (EDL) can only deliver electricity to houses for a few hours a day, if at all. Street and traffic lights have also ceased working. Following the Beirut port explosion on August 4, 2020, which claimed more than 200 lives and left extensive damage in the surrounding areas, a number of civic orga...

  A recently released tool is helping educators in the Middle East and North Africa region following three years of fee freezes and stagnant education investment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Curriculum Led Financial Planning Tool was developed by UK-based training company Skills Network to help international schools in the region, which have been particularly severely hit by the fee freeze, with their financial planning. The 2019–2020 academic year saw various Arab Gulf nations' most recent permissible fee hike. The pressure on schools in the commercial capital of the UAE increased when Dubai's Knowledge and Human Development Authority declared in March that foreign schools would not be permitted to increase tuition costs for 2022. To lessen the financial impact of COVID-19, hundreds of private schools in Saudi Arabia reduced their prices by 50% during the first semester of the previous academic year. According to Natasha Ridge, executive director of the ...

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, declared on Friday that his country does not favour Bashar al-ouster.   He told journalists travelling with him to Ukraine, "We don't have such an issue whether to defeat Assad or not.” "There is a war against terrorism in all the efforts we have made with Russians in northern Syria and the east and west of the Euphrates."   Erdogan said Turkey will need to take "further steps" with Damascus to put an end to the "games" being played in the area after a week of speculation that normalization with the government of the Syrian president may be in the works. He continued by saying that Turkey could not completely sever diplomatic ties with the Syrian regime. You must acknowledge that you cannot sever diplomatic and political ties between nations, he said. There ought to be such conversations often. The Turkish leader claimed that while he likewise desired to cooperate with Tehran in Syria, he...

Attacks on Iranian clerics have increased in recent years in  the country, according to a report by Iranian daily Radio Farda. Iran has reported several incidents of physical attacks on clerics, and many religious leaders are afraid of wearing their robes or turbans in public as they are being targeted. Shockingly, two-dozen clerics were violently attacked in the past decade in the country, out of which, three were killed and two were blinded. Reportedly, low-level clerics who have attempted to enforce strict religious codes in the country such as the Hijab rule are being targeted. Many people in the country can no longer tolerate clerics who impose their reactionary lifestyle on others. Some people are angry over suffocating restrictions in their life. Tehran-based dissident cleric Abolfazl Najafi-Tehrani told Radio Farda, “In recent years, we have witnessed people’s hatred and anger towards those clerics who follow state policies.” The country has also suffered because of...

  Palestinian leaders want to obtain full membership in the United Nations (UN). They have also launched a new diplomatic campaign to get membership, which will start with a speech by the President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, at the UN General Assembly on September 23. Palestinian government spokesman Ibrahim Melhem said on Wednesday, “In the absence of a political path for the Palestinians to end the occupation, they have no choice but to resort to the United Nations to enhance the status of Palestine as a state.” According to Fatah official Sabri Saidem, France encouraged the Palestinians to seek full membership in the UN. In 2011, President Abbas submitted the application of Palestine for membership in the UN. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) admitted Palestine as a Member. According to Arab News, The United Nations granted Palestine non-member observer state status at a vote in the General Assembly in November 2012. During the v...

  Protests erupted in the southern Iraqi province of Basra on Monday over power cuts that left many people without electricity in 50 Celsius heat. Many locations in Iraq topped 50 Celsius on Monday. The past four days have reached over 50C. Iraq’s power grid was affected by extreme temperatures. The electricity grid failed in the southern provinces of Basra, Dhi Qar and Maysan. The protests began after the collapse of the electricity grid in these provinces due to excessive demand amid high temperatures. The Governor of Basra Province, Asaad Abdulameer Al Eidani, said that the power cuts took place because of the fire at a power station. Without electricity, people started feeling frustrated. In protests, many people took to the streets and burned tires, blocking the main road to the capital. In Najaf, weapons belonging to the Iran-backed Hashd Al-Shaabi network of paramilitary groups exploded in the heat. Meanwhile, followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr continued to p...

  The biggest escalation of hostilities in the region since a war last year occurred on Saturday when Israel attacked Gaza with airstrikes and a militant Palestinian group reacted with a barrage of rockets. Following days of tension along the Gaza border, Israel claims it was forced to conduct a "pre-emptive" action against Islamic Jihad because the organization was preparing for an impending attack.   Health officials in Gaza, a Palestinian territory governed by the Islamist organization Hamas, reported 10 deaths from Israel's bombardment, including a five-year-old girl, and 79 injuries. According to Israel's army, their operation has killed 15 militants.   Israel expanded its campaign against Islamic Jihad, a group that is affiliated with Hamas but frequently operates independently, early on Saturday.   Along with the arrest of one additional person, the Israeli army declared the detention of 19 persons in the occupied West Bank who it claimed were members...

  The Israeli army arrested more than 20 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank, said the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) in a statement on Thursday. According to the statement by PPC, the detainees were from the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem (south), Tulkarm, and Jenin (north). Eight detainees were from the Al-Ajouli family from Hebron, a Palestinian city in the southern West Bank . There are currently 4,650 Palestinians held in jails in Israel. There are nearly 200 Palestinian children held by Israeli authorities in detention centres. Since the beginning of January 2022, a large number of deaths, injuries, and arrests of over 1,100 Palestinians by Israeli authorities have taken place. In March, 194 Palestinian children were detained by the Israeli authorities in detention centres. Israel also carried out air raids in the central Gaza Strip this year. Earlier, many international organisations condemned Israel’s ongoing systematic aggression against Palesti...