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December 21, 2022
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that he has successfully built a new coalition, paving the way for his return to power as the leader of the most right-wing Israeli government
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December 17, 2022
Taraneh Alidoosti, one of Iran’s most renowned actresses, has been detained by security forces days after criticizing the government’s use of the death penalty against protestors. The 38-year-old had also shared
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December 13, 2022
A total of 400 people have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years by courts in the Iranian capital Tehran and surrounding areas, on charges relating to
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November 23, 2022
A teenager has been killed and 22 people injured in two explosions targeting Jerusalem commuters during rush hour. The blasts occurred in two busy parts of the city’s outskirts as
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November 18, 2022
Protesters in Iran have set fire to the ancestral home of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, as two months of anti-regime demonstrations continue unabated.
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November 16, 2022
Iranian police have opened fire on protesters at a Tehran metro station and attacked women not wearing compulsory hair coverings, as demonstrations over the death of Mahsa Amini
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November 14, 2022
Iran has issued the first death sentence over protests that have rocked the country for almost two months, having previously voted overwhelmingly in favor of capital punishment in
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Israeli political heavyweight Benjamin Netanyahu has opened talk with ultra-Orthodox and far-right allies over forming what could prove be the most right-wing government in Israel’s history. After a
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Security forces in Iran have opened fire on protesters in Zahedan, less than one month after a massacre that killed dozens of people in the tumultuous southeastern city.
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Iraq’s parliament has approved a new government, bring an end to a year-long crisis caused by contested elections. The new government will be headed by Prime Minister Mohammed
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