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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Chris Doyle
Relations between Israel and its historic European allies, Britain and France, have rapidly deteriorated in recent weeks. It was just last Monday that the two countries issued a statement with Canada condemning Israel's expanded military operations in Gaza and warning they could take "concrete actions". A day later, Britain announced it was summoning the Israeli ambassador in London and suspending its free trade agreement talks with Israel.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Maha Hussaini |Chris Doyle
A young girl with a short ponytail steps over shattered rubble, flames around her, trying to escape. The five-year-old child in the viral footage, which showed the aftermath of an Israeli strikes on a Gaza City school sheltering displaced Palestinians, was Ward Jalal al-Sheikh Khalil. Ward, who has spent nearly half her life surviving Israel’s war on Gaza, was fleeing the bombed classroom at the Fahmi al-Jerjawi school after witnessing her mother and four siblings burn to death.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Chris Doyle
The UK has sent its Israel trade envoy, Lord Ian Austin, to Israel to "promote trade" - less than a week after suspending free trade agreement talks with Israel over its attacks on Gaza. On Monday Austin was in Haifa, where he visited the customs scanning centre, Haifa Bayport and the Haifa-Nazareth Light Rail project. "Greetings from Israel!" the envoy said in a post on X on Monday.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Chris Doyle
The UK has sent its Israel trade envoy, Lord Ian Austin, to Israel to "promote trade" - less than a week after suspending free trade agreement talks with Israel over its attacks on Gaza. On Monday Austin was in Haifa, where he visited the customs scanning centre, Haifa Bayport and the Haifa-Nazareth Light Rail project. "Greetings from Israel!" the envoy said in a post on X on Monday.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Chris Doyle |Timothy Cockes |Yonat Shimron |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): International Mission BoardFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: People aren’t lining up to be missionaries in Ukraine right now, as Lamar Schubert has discovered. He and his wife Aubrey work with Slavic people and Eastern European churches, but they had to evacuate Ukraine when war began in February 2022.
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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Bob Smietana |Chris Doyle |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): Discipleship, FamilyFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: (RNS) — Theologians, preachers and best-selling authors have long tried to explain why bad things happen to good people. But there’s a second question that doesn’t get as much attention. What happens when a good person does something that seems unforgivable?
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi |Chris Doyle
In October 2023, the Law and Political Economy project at the prestigious Yale Law School (YLS), one of the most influential and respected academic and legal institutions in the country, brought on a young Iranian Muslim scholar of international law to become deputy director of the team. Then last week, that deputy director, Helyeh Doutaghi, was barred from campus altogether.
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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Chris Doyle |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode |Tobin Perry
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule while promising to protect the rights of all Syrians for five years during a transitional phase. The nation’s interim rulers have struggled to exert their authority across much of Syria since the Islamist former insurgent group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, led a lightning insurgency that overthrew longtime President Bashar Assad in December.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
arabnews.com | Chris Doyle
Justice beginning to follow Israelis around the world Short Urlhttps://arab.news/49bsj A Brazilian judge this month ordered the police to mount an investigation into an Israeli soldier who was on holiday in the country. This followed a legal application from the Hind Rajab Foundation, a group named after a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza. The Israeli authorities were compelled to help this Israeli soldier flee Brazil.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
baptistpress.com | Chris Doyle |Laura Erlanson |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): National NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday (Jan. 9) for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.S. president typically eschewed.
