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JERUSALEM, Israel | Xinhua | Israel’s military said Sunday that it intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Yemen before it entered Israeli airspace. The missile triggered sirens in several cities and communities across central Israel, the military said in a statement. Fragments from the missile or the interceptor fell in …

JERUSALEM | Xinhua | Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Friday that the country will begin issuing conscription orders to thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, a group traditionally exempt from military service, citing a shortage of soldiers. Katz said in a statement that 7,000 draft orders for ultra-Orthodox men …

  GAZA | Xinhua | Much rattled, Mohammed Alloush, a Palestinian man from Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, rushed to his relatives’ house on Sunday to see what had happened after it was attacked by the Israeli army. Upon his arrival with dozens of his neighbors, Alloush was shocked …

JOHANNESBURG | Xinhua |  South Africa on Monday submitted evidence of Israel’s genocidal acts in the Gaza Strip to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “South Africa has filed its memorial to the International Court of Justice today, 28 Oct. 2024, in its case on the Application of the Convention …

    BEIRUT | Wang Shang – Xinhua | The first time I heard the drones, I was walking in Hamra, Beirut’s historically cosmopolitan district. The dull buzz came from the sky, everywhere and nowhere. “You’ll get used to it,” my colleague said, not even glancing upward as he guided …

MOSCOW | TASS |  Russia is making every effort to prevent the Middle East from descending into a major conflict, Russian Presidential Special Envoy for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov stated at the 4th International Russia-Middle East Forum. “We are making every effort to prevent …

Can it support Palestine while supplying Israel with coal? ANALYSIS | SURAYA DADOO | Despite having taken Israel to the International Court of Justice over genocide, South Africa is now the country’s main coal supplier after Russia. Since 1994, South Africa’s criticism of Israel’s occupation of Palestine has been unwavering and …

JERUSALEM | Xinhua | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Saturday that “Iran’s agents who tried to assassinate me and my wife today made a bitter mistake.” He referred to the drone launch from Lebanon, aimed at his private residence in the northern town of Caesarea …

WASHINGTON, the United States | Xinhua | The United States announced Friday sanctions targeting Iran’s energy trade in light of the Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack launched by the country against Israel. According to a statement issued by the Department of State, the department “is imposing sanctions on six entities …

CAIRO,EGYPT | Xinhua | The United States has frequently employed political maneuvers to gain credit for its role in the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. In July 2022, prior to a visit to the region, U.S. President Joe Biden proudly asserted in a Washington Post op-ed that “The Middle …