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Saudi Arabia quietly shelving NEOM Stadium, 2034 World Cup venue
NEOM was introduced about a decade ago as a centrepiece of de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030
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Houthis cut vital Aden-Taiz road in Yemen
Trump has threatened to continue the US war on Iran despite several attempts to put in place a ceasefire and peace deal.
Politics
Green members give their take on the Zionism is Racism motion
Green Party members shared their views on the highly anticipated motion that will shape the party’s definition of Zionism.
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Israel claims deadly strikes were attempt to kill Hamas leader
Israel said the deadly strike on Saturday was an attempt to kill Ali al-Amoudi, though it is still being determined if he was wounded or killed.
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Jewish Green activists defy pro-Israel rally at party conference
Jewish pro-Palestine activists held a counter-protest outside the Brighton Centre as pro-Israel groups staged a demonstration against the Green Party.
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Egyptian journalists stage sit-in over detention of six reporters
The sit-in follows the detention of six reporters by Egyptian authorities from an independent fact-checking platform.
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Police deployed in Cairo amid anger over journalists’ detention
Egyptian police were heavily deployed and closed off roads leading to the Journalists’ syndicate in downtown Cairo to prevent protests.
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Gaza’s Christians mourn after Israel kills mother and daughter
Maysaa Khader Abu Daoud and her daughter Marie were killed by an Israeli strike on their apartment in Gaza’s Rimal neighbourhood.
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Portugal prosecutors probe US use of airbase in Iran war
Portuguese prosecutors have opened a probe into the legality of the government’s authorisation of the US’s use of the Lajes airbase during the Iran war.
Sports
Israeli reporter accused of ’lying’ as ROI-Israel presser ends
An Israeli journalist claimed that Ireland’s football team had called their Israeli counterparts ’monkeys’, which led to the swift end of the press conference.
Technology
ShinyHunters hacker detained in Jordan, ’cooperating with FBI’
Saif al-Din al-Khader, also known as Rey, was detained by Jordanian authorities on Tuesday, sources told Reuters.
Politics
Inside the UK Greens’ debate over landmark anti-Zionism motion
UK Green members debate a landmark motion defining Zionism as racist and settler-colonial, as its backers push for an explicitly anti-Zionist stance.
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Flames, smoke seen at Aramco facility south of Saudi capital
The incident comes amid a string of attacks on the Saudi oil giant by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who have fired missiles and drones at the kingdom.
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Israeli forces attempt to assassinate Hamas’ ’new Gaza leader’
At least five people, including four women and a child, were killed in the attack on a residential apartment on Friday evening.
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UK-Iranian man held over airbase incident released on bail
Police arrested the suspect, 25, on suspicion of ’preparing terrorist acts’ after the incident last week at RAF Fairford in southwest England.
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UAE investigators say flydubai co-pilot planned ’terrorist act’
The co-pilot, who remains in custody in the UAE, was identified by multiple media outlets as Omani national Hamam al-Hammami.
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Oil tankers attacked in Hormuz, smoke seen near Aramco in Riyadh
US Donald Trump has claimed that the Iran war will be over ’very soon’ as his top aides hold a secret meeting in Camp David over developments in Iran and Yemen.
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Greens’ Polanski calls for UK Palestine Action ban to be lifted
As the Green Party’s annual conference begins in Brighton, Zack Polanski criticised the Labour Party’s stance, policies and actions on the Gaza war.