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War in the Middle East linked to rising child malnutrition in Africa

Health workers in northern Nigeria say more children are relapsing into malnutrition and cite knock-on effects from the war in the Middle East. The region is already under pressure from an insurgency crisis. The conflict in the Middle East has worsened food security for millions, especially children. UNICEF warns th…

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US strikes Iran's Revolutionary Guard over attack that killed troops in Jordan

The United States and Iran exchanged strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets on Saturday as their battle over the Strait of Hormuz intensified. The U.S. Central Command said early Saturday that its seventh straight night of strikes had hit “surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, undergro…

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Report: Aipac stops taking donations for Democrats who backed Israel aid cut

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), a leading pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States, has stopped accepting campaign contributions for 15 House Democrats it had previously endorsed, after they voted this week for an amendment to cut off all US military aid to Israel, media reports said.

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Israeli authorities arrest senior HWC officials amid terror, foreign influence threats

Israeli authorities have arrested senior officials from the Health Work Committees (HWC), an organization Israel designated as a terrorist group in 2020 over its alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), as the country's security establishment reports confronting both terrorist threat…

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Latin American Jewish converts caught between communal bans and Israel’s Law of Return

For nearly a century, a little-known communal decree has effectively blocked tens of thousands of Jewish converts and descendants of Spain and Portugal’s forced converts from making aliyah through normal channels. Israel’s Nascent Sanhedrin court just challenged the legitimacy of that prohibition, potentially reopen…

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"We've Burned Through All Buffers": Oil Traders Warn Market Running On Fumes

Brent crude futures jumped a little more than 4% to nearly $88 a barrel, putting the crude oil benchmark on track for its biggest weekly gain since April. That move followed an Axios report that said the Trump administration had notified Israel it was deploying additional aerial assets to the region, signaling the U…

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