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Haidar Eid is a Palestinian professor who used to teach postcolonial and postmodern literature at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. That university no longer exists thanks to the missiles and the Zionist minds
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) has cleared its founder, Klaus Schwab, of wrongdoing after an internal investigation and appointed BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink and Roche vice-chair André Hoffmann as interim chairs
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U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to intervene in the case of Jimmy Lai, the British-Hong Kong media tycoon on trial under Hong Kong’s national security laws, telling The Times UK and
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As President Vladimir Putin meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Anchorage for a high-stakes summit, the composition of the Russian delegation is attracting nearly as much attention as the talks themselves. According
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U.S. President Donald Trump personally welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on Saturday, marking the start of a high-profile summit between the two leaders. Putin arrived shortly
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It has been a long time since a diplomatic event drew as much global attention as Friday’s meeting between the Russian and US presidents in Alaska. In terms of its significance for
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The last time I was in Washington DC I came out of my downtown hotel near the White House and asked the doorman which way to walk to a certain restaurant. ‘Turn left
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Major US technology companies are dramatically increasing spending on personal security for their chief executives, amid a surge in threats, public hostility, and incidents of violence targeting high-profile business leaders. According to
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A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has used artificial intelligence to create two new antibiotics capable of killing dangerous drug-resistant bacteria, including MRSA, in laboratory and animal
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A major international survey has found that more than half of patients who underwent electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) said it was unhelpful, worsened their quality of life, and was often administered without full
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A free outdoor screening of the film Barbie in a Paris suburb was cancelled after a group of young men threatened council staff and moved to damage equipment — an incident the
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Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, Japan is beginning to acknowledge a group of victims long overlooked — the children of traumatised veterans whose post-war lives were marked
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The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka announces the visit of the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) to the Port of Colombo on August 16. The visit marks the
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