All news on the topic: Middle East

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'Disturbing Cenotaph violence was direct result of Suella Braverman's behaviour'
London Mayor Sadiq Khan says if Suella Braverman had any honour she would resign - and if not, Rishi Sunak should sack her. "If he doesn't, he's either too weak to do so or he agrees with her."
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Israel must free 7,000 Palestinians to save Hamas hostages, negotiator warns
A hostage negotiator who has dealt with Hamas for 20 years has warned Israelis they will need to free 7,000 Palestinians to secure the release of their 240 citizens currently being held captive in Gaza
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PGA Tour stars handed "lucrative" chance to join LIV in qualifying loophole
PGA Tour players have been granted release to play in LIV Golf's promotion event next month, and Graeme McDowell is looking forward to seeing the hopefuls compete
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'There's a hate preacher in the Government - she uses the name Suella Braverman'
The Home Secretary's latest divisive statement is that sleeping rough is a "lifestyle choice"
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US nuclear sub arrives in Middle East as tensions soar in Israel-Hamas war
US Central Command said it deployed an Ohio-Class sub (SSGNs), which are the largest submarines every built for the Navy and capable of firing up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles
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Labour 'taking grassroots for granted over Gaza ceasefire call' as revolt grows
Keir Starmer continues to face down demands to back calls for a cessation of the violence in the Strip, as Israel retaliates for the October 7 attacks waged by Hamas
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Panic as 112 Brits trapped in Gaza hell while 400,000 face Israel bomb blitz
Trapped Brits feared for their lives as Israel’s bombing continued and tanks blocked the crossing into Egypt in an apparent dispute over evacuating injured patients
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'Humanitarian disaster the world was dreading is now unfolding before our eyes'
As calls for a ceasefire in Gaza grow, Benjamin Netanyahu still shows no sign of ordering even a humanitarian pause to end the misery of those trapped
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Bibby Stockholm asylum seekers 'got seasick' and vomited during Storm Ciaran
The Bibby Stockholm has been slammed by an asylum seeker who says the weather during Storm Ciaran left the accommodation barge rocking 'like a swing'
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'The argument for cutting Jordan McSweeney's sentence insults decent people'
The law is wrong. And if it was applied correctly by the Court of Appeal, then it must be changed. This killer inflicted 46 injuries on Zara Aleena
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'Covid inquiry isn't Gaza or Ukraine - but it's our war for honest government'
Even for a news junkie like me, rolling war coverage gets hard to take
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Biden White House to implement 'national strategy' to tackle Islamophobia
As a recent poll shows that support for President Joe Biden and his administration has fallen amongst the Muslim population in the US, they've released a new statement announcing a plan to tackle Islamophobia
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McDonald's hits back as mice thrown into third branch by 'Palestine activists'
Footage circulated on social media shows half a dozen masked men going into the fast food restaurant in Birmingham on Tuesday night and dumping the rodents while chanting "free Palestine"
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Putin back from the dead and 2 hours late for meeting before launching mad rant
During a meeting with his leading military and security henchmen, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed foreign interference for ugly anti-Semitic scenes at a regional airport
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Starmer to warn Gaza ceasefire will help Hamas carry out more attacks on Israel
The Labour leader will give a speech reiterating his call for a "humanitarian pause" allowing Palestinians to escape, but will say that a ceasefire would allow Hamas to plan more attacks on Israel
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Tory MP sacked from Government job after calling for ceasefire in Gaza
Rishi Sunak has sacked one of his parliamentary private secretaries after he wrote a letter to the PM calling for a 'permanent' break in hostilities between Israel and Hamas
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Emergency Cobra meeting over terrorism fears fuelled by Israel-Gaza crisis
Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman are set to meet national security officials and top cops amid fears the conflict in the Middle East has heightened the threat of terror attacks in the UK
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'It's almost nailed on that Labour will win next year - but there are concerns'
The whole motif of the last couple of years has been Labour is a reformed party, all the hatchets buried, ready to govern. Thing is, they just can’t keep a lid on things.
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Putin invites Hamas and Iran to Moscow for talks 'in bid to form axis of terror'
A move by Russian president Vladimir Putin to meet major players including Iran in the conflict between Israel and Hamas has startled Western leaders with many fearing it could ignite a wider war in the region
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Russia 'will end Ukraine war and rejoin international community' if Putin dead
World affairs expert Anthony Glees says a new leader in Russia would likely look to end the war in Ukraine, if the Kremlin has its choice - that's if rumours of Vladimir Putin's death are true
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Three major Labour figures break ranks to call for ceasefire in Gaza
Keir Starmer is under mounting pressure to call for a ceasefire amid growing unease in the party ranks, including among some frontbenchers, at the leader’s position on the crisis
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'Too many breadwinners struggle to buy bread - this is poverty in Britain today'
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown recalls tales of poverty from around the country as data shows there are 3.8million people, including one million children, destitute in Britain
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Gaza hospitals 'make hell look like a tea party' as thousands of children killed
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT The aid organisation says Israel’s bombs have killed 2,360 children in less than three weeks, as a doctor in the war-torn region says it 'makes hell look like a tea party'
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Starmer faces threat of frontbench resignations over Labour's Israel-Gaza stance
The Labour leader met around a dozen of the party's Muslim MPs in Parliament in a bid to defuse tensions after a string of councillors quit the party in protest
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Mosque hits out at Starmer as Labour leader in showdown on Israel-Gaza conflict
The Labour leader is expected to meet with Muslim Labour MPs on Wednesday in an attempt to defuse growing anger in the party over its position on the Middle East conflict