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How FlyDubai attack exposes gaps in Israel-UAE security ties

Israeli officials believe the FlyDubai incident could strain Israel-UAE relations but is unlikely to undermine long-term security cooperation between the two countries.

By Ben Caspit

In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the UNGA

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The next UN secretary-general will inherit a Middle East agenda dominated by crises.

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Traders work at their desks on the floor of the Borsa Istanbul

Analysis

Turkey’s $20B fund crisis: Who profited, and who will pay?

Opposition parties are demanding immediate government compensation for affected investors, who face up to a six-month wait as independent banks oversee the asset liquidations.

By Jack Dutton

In Bristol, reporting on regional business, climate change, AI, tech

This general view shows the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Guba, Ethiopia, on February 19, 2022. - Ethiopia's massive hydro-electric dam project on a tributary of the Nile has raised regional tensions notably with Egypt, which depends on the huge river for 97 percent of its water supply. Government officials said the dam would begin producing electricity on Sunday, more than a decade since work first started. (Photo by Amanuel SILESHI / AFP) (Photo by AMANUEL SILESHI/AFP via Getty Ima

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Why are Egypt and Ethiopia clashing over Tigray, Somalia and the Nile?

Egypt expelled an official at the Ethiopian Embassy in Cairo on Thursday following a similar move by Ethiopia that same day, in the latest sign of tensions between the neighboring African countries.

Egypt

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Algeria moves to restore death penalty for arson: What to know

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune wants a return to executions after another summer of devastating wild fires, but rights groups say the amendment passed by parliament is problematic.

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Ex-PM says Sudan risks partition amid US ceasefire push

Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok chairs an emergency cabinet session in the capital, Khartoum, on Oct. 18, 2021.

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Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip

Saudi Arabia accuses Houthis of drone attack in Medina

Saudi Arabia

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Indian pilot Smit Machchhar smiles in an unidentified location

Indian pilot tells PM Modi he opened flydubai cockpit door during attack

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Yaniv Hayun, a passenger on the FlyDubai flight

Israeli officials to question co-pilot of flydubai flight, source says

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Members of the media gather outside the home of the parents of Smit Machchhar, an Indian national and a flydubai pilot who was stabbed by a colleague aboard a plane, in Mumbai

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FILE PHOTO: Houthi supporters rally to celebrate advances by Houthi forces along the Red Sea coastline, in Sanaa

Saudis plan assault on Houthis to break Red Sea chokehold

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How FlyDubai attack exposes gaps in Israel-UAE security ties

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Analysis

As Iran’s grip on Hormuz weakens, what leverage does Tehran have left?

A woman crosses a street near a giant billboard erected on the facade of a building depicting a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps placing his foot on a US sea drone, reportedly seized by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, in Vanak Square in Tehran, on Sept. 24, 2026.

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Why Turkey is drawing the line at defense in its support for Saudi Arabia

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (3rd R) with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud (R) and Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar (2nd R), Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman (C), Turkish Chief of the General Staff General Selcuk Bayraktaroglu (L), Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif (2nd R), Pakistani Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir (3rd R) at the first meeting of the Strategic Political and Defence Committee in relation to the

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