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3 days ago | en.hespress.com | Amira El Masaiti |with AFP

A senior former Algerian diplomat posted in France has been implicated in the 2024 kidnapping of political dissident Amir Boukhors, according to a classified investigation report from France’s domestic intelligence agency (DGSI), deepening the diplomatic rift between Paris and Algiers.

3 days ago | en.hespress.com | Amira El Masaiti |with AFP

Operations at Belgium’s second largest airport were briefly suspended on Tuesday due to a bomb alert on a Ryanair flight from Portugal, the company running the airport and the airline said. Shortly before 11:00 am (0900 GMT) “a bomb threat was triggered” on board an aircraft that landed at Charleroi airport, said a spokeswoman for its operator. “A security perimeter was established around the aircraft,” the spokeswoman said.

3 days ago | en.hespress.com | Amira El Masaiti |with AFP

The Israeli military said it struck a Gaza hospital housing Hamas militants in a raid Tuesday that, according to the Palestinian group, killed a journalist wounded in an Israeli attack last month. The strike, which Hamas said happened at dawn, ended a brief pause in fighting to allow the release of a US-Israeli hostage.

3 days ago | en.hespress.com | Amira El Masaiti |with AFP

Donald Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday on the first leg of a Gulf tour that will also take him to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, eyeing business deals even as accords on the Middle East’s hotspots will likely be harder to reach. The trip marks the US president’s first major visit abroad of his second term, with the White House saying he looked forward to a “historic return” to the region.