White House: No Rafah invasion until Israeli delegation talks alternatives
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by Jared Szuba
57m ago
"We don’t support a major ground operation," White House NSC coordinator John Kirby emphasized on Thursday, as an Israeli delegation is expected to discuss alternatives with top officials in Washington next week ..read more
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Biden-Netanyahu spat more play to electorates than showdown over Gaza
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by Week in Review, Andrew Parasiliti
57m ago
The dispute won't shake 'ironclad' US support for Israel ..read more
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Saudi private equity investment peaked at $4B in 2023 amid rising buyouts
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by Jack Dutton
57m ago
The kingdom's deep-pocketed sovereign wealth fund was involved in the top three private equity transactions between 2019 and 2023 ..read more
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Battles near Gaza hospital as US says Israel talks back on
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Street battles raged Thursday near a hospital in besieged Gaza, where the dire humanitarian crisis and surging death toll have caused tensions between Israel and top ally the United States. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be trying to soothe a rift with US President Joe Biden with plans to send a government delegation to Washington after earlier cancelling the trip ..read more
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Saudi Aramco CEO calls energy transition strategy a failure
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Pointing to the still paltry share of renewable energy in global supply, the head of Saudi Aramco described the current energy transition strategy as a misguided failure on Monday. "In the real world, the current transition strategy is visibly failing on most fronts," Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Amin Nasser said at the CERAWeek conference in Houston ..read more
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State Department staffer resigns over Biden's handling of Gaza
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by Al-Monitor Staff
57m ago
Annelle Sheline is the second State Department official to publicly resign since Oct. 7, citing the erosion of US credibility on human rights in the Middle East as a result of the war ..read more
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Israel's 'scapegoat' Bedouins reel from wartime hardship
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After months of waiting in vain for Hamas to release his relatives held hostage in Gaza, Israeli Bedouin Ali al-Zayadna travelled to Islam's third holiest site to appeal directly to the Almighty. "Oh God, end the captivity of Youssef and Hamza," the 59-year-old said as he knelt at the Al-Aqsa mosque in east Jerusalem, referring to his brother and nephew who were abducted during the October 7 attack that triggered the Israel-Hamas war ..read more
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In latest about-face, Netanyahu agrees to resend canceled US delegation to discuss Rafah
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by Rina Bassist
57m ago
The White House said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed for his top aides to travel to Washington to discuss the situation in Rafah after the Israeli leader canceled the delegation Monday ..read more
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George Washington University faces $10mn disinformation lawsuit
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A leading American university was sued Wednesday over a disinformation campaign allegedly financed by the United Arab Emirates, accused of seeding false narratives that linked academics to a radical group in the Middle East. Farid Hafez, an Austrian political scientist, filed the $10 million lawsuit against George Washington University and Lorenzo Vidino, the director of its program on extremism ..read more
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UN expert defiant amid threats after Israel 'genocide' finding
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A UN expert who determined that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza on Wednesday said that she had faced threats over her work but insisted it only made her more determined to push ahead. Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories, said this week there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel was committing "genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza ..read more
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