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The Latest Breaking News from the Middle East

Foreign minister plans to visit Israel within weeks

Penny Wong will visit the Middle East within weeks, following a bipartisan delegation travelling to Israel.

AAP

Protest planned for Keir Starmer's visit to Scotland over 'abhorrent' Gaza stance

STOP the War Scotland has called on people to protest Keir Starmer’s visit to Glasgow over his stance on the conflict in the Middle East.

The National (Scotland)

US Facing Growing Middle East Crisis Tied To Israel-Hamas War

Washington is facing an increasingly complex and dangerous crisis resulting from the Israel-Hamas war, which has sparked repeated militant attacks and drawn US military attention and assets back to the Middle East.

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Crude Oil: Does OPEC Have a Problem?

OPEC’s biannual meeting in late November establishes the cartel’s production policy for the coming year. The cartel scheduled the late 2023 meeting for Sunday, November 26, but the oil ministers could not agree on output quotas during preliminary meetings, causing a delay in the meeting until the end of November.

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Israeli Ground Forces Move Into South Of Gaza

Israel has moved ground forces into the south of Gaza in its war on Hamas, witnesses said Monday, despite global concern over mounting civilian deaths and fears the conflict will spread elsewhere in the Middle East.

International Business Times

UK to conduct Middle East surveillance flights to help find Hamas hostages

The Ministry of Defence said the flights over Israel and Gaza airspace will be unarmed.

Evening Standard

As an imam and a rabbi, we see the pain caused by war in the Middle East. We don’t want that conflict in the UK

We don’t have to hold the same views to know that we must care for each other, says Imam Monawar Hussain and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

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Kanye West Attends Event In Dubai With Wife Bianca Censori Who Wears “Deer-Shaped Pillow”

Kanye West and Bianca Censori took Dubai by storm, and not necessarily in a good way.

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Regional Tourism A Casualty In Israel-Hamas Conflict

Tourists are abandoning the Middle East region due to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, putting at risk nations like Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt, whose economies depend heavily upon international tourism.

International Business Times

Hamas Terror Attacks: Balancing Principles And Human Lives In The Middle East

EU urged to freeze aid to Palestine to purge Hamas and save Two State Solution

Zenger

A look at what to expect as latest UN climate talks get under way in oil-rich UAE

The Middle East plays host to its second straight U.N. climate conference over the next two weeks, with countries hoping to agree on new ways to keep the planet from catastrophic heating by the end of the century

The Independent UK

Gaza war: how Qatar used its business connections to become a leading mediator in the Middle East

During the temporary ceasefire negotiated between Israel and Hamas with the mediation of the Qatar government, 81 hostages have been released in return for the freeing of 180 Palestinians held in Israeli custody. Hundreds of lorry loads of aid have been allowed into the war zone and, just as the…

The Conversation

UK 'among least transparent' countries in investigating civilian airstrike deaths

THE UK is “among the least transparent” countries when investigating civilian deaths caused by its air strikes in the Middle East, a tribunal…

The National (Scotland)

Blinken seeks a new extension of the Gaza cease-fire as he heads again to the Middle East

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration would like to see a new extension of the cease-fire agreement in Israel’s war with Hamas after the current one expires

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Russell: F1 illnesses highlight 'unsustainable' toll of 2024 calendar

As the 2023 campaign concluded with the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix running back-to-back with the season finale in the Middle East - forcing people to overcome a 12-hour time difference in three days - drivers, team personnel and championship staff were coming down with sickness at Yas Marina.

Fortune

World's first AI minister likens risk of overregulation to calligraphers that kept the printing press out of the Middle East for nearly 200 years

In his 1515 rejection of the printing press, an Ottoman sultan brought the golden age of Islamic math and science to an abrupt end.

Fortune

As billionaire hedge fund managers flock to the Middle East, a key official says watch out for Abu Dhabi as a financial hub in the next 2 to 3 years

At Fortune's Global Forum in Abu Dhabi, H.E. Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi echoes the billionaires Alan Howard and Ray Dalio: The city is a major emerging financial district.

Fortune

The head of the Middle East's largest private oil producer says we'll need '100 times more' renewable energy to meet demand

“You need to add a new Saudi Arabia every two years just to meet the current demand," Crescent Petroleum CEO Majid Jafar said at Fortune's Global Forum in Abu Dhabi.

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‘Sometimes you feel you’re in Palestine’: culture and cause burn brightly in Chile

Chile has the largest Palestinian diaspora outside the Middle East – and it is lending its considerable weight to the call for justice

The Conversation

In Gaza, a photo of Israeli soldier raising a pride flag 'in the name of love' goes viral, 'pinkwashing' a war

Waging war in the name of love is as old as the myths from ancient Greece, considered to be the birthplace of western civilization. The legend is that their army sent a thousand ships to liberate Helen of Troy all “for love.”

The Independent UK

Marrakech kicks off film festival in the shadow of war in the Middle East

The Marrakech International Film Festival began on Friday, bringing American and international movie stars to the Arab world as war in the Middle East has led to the cancellation of other film festivals

The Independent UK

Israeli safety depends on long-term Palestinian ‘security’, warns Cameron

Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron has been meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders during a trip to the Middle East.

Evening Standard

Call of Duty Black Ops will return in 2024, set in early 90s Gulf War

Gamers will be heading for the Middle East as soon as autumn 2024

Evening Standard

OPINION - Cracks are showing in Hamas’s grip on Gaza while the IDF plot their campaign for the south of the strip

War can all of sudden turn battle commanders into fastidious lawyers when it comes to terms. Protesters marching in the streets of London may be calling for a ceasefire, but that is not what either side in the Middle East wants to call the minimum four-day halt they have just…

Al Jazeera

Middle East Roundup: Nervous anticipation for truce, exchange of captives

As Palestinians wait with bated breath for a pause in the Israeli bombardment, here’s the Middle East this week.

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