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World Food Program suspends staff movement after vehicle shot at in Gaza

Displaced Palestinians carry a box of food rations provided by the World Food Program at a makeshift street market in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 14, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas.

Is Khamenei’s Nowruz message bad news for Rouhani?

Unification of Arab parties bad news for Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chats with Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint Arab List, in the plenum at the knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem December 26, 2018. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun - RC1BD157DCB0

Dutch journalist accused of 'fabricating news' in Egypt

Dutch journalist Rena Netjes holds a press point on February 4, 2014 as she arrives at Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands, after being accused by Egypt of being part of a "terror cell" involving Qatari-owned broadcaster Al-Jazeera. Netjes flew out of Cairo early February 4 after several days in hiding, following a crackdown on the pan-Arab satellite broadcaster which Cairo accuses of backing the Muslim Brotherhood ousted from power by the military in July. AFP PHOTO / ANP / REMKO DE WAAL -- The Netherlands o

Northeast Syrian authorities close down Kurdish news outlet

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Palestinian media, public turn to Israeli press for news

Palestinians walk past local newspapers, which feature the Israeli election on their front pages, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2015. As the dust settles on a dramatic election, the immediate questions are how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to stage such a fierce comeback, why the opposition fell short and what it means for Israel, the Palestinians and the world. While the election results may come down to the shuffling of allegiances within major blocs, the repercussions a

Good news from Davutoglu: a rational economy

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu greets his supporters as he leaves Kocatepe Mosque after Friday prayers in Ankara August 29, 2014. Davutoglu announced a new cabinet on Friday keeping key members of the economic management team in place and appointing the man who has managed Ankara's affairs with Europe as foreign minister. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR448EI

Egyptian news media warned not to criticize UAE-Israel deal

CAIRO, EGYPT - JANUARY 27: Locals look at newspapers carrying reports and pictures of street protests on January 27, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Thousands of police are on the streets of the capital and hundreds of arrests have been made in an attempt to quell anti-government demonstrations. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Egypt sends news editors to military academy for 'training'

Journalists gather in front of the Journalists' Syndicate in Cairo on November 19, 2016, to protest against the courts verdict to sentence head of the union and two members to two years in prison.
Egypt's interior minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar

Journalists Syndicate president Yahiya Kallash, Gamal Abd el-Rahim and Khaled Elbalshy were charged in May with sheltering two journalists wanted over protests against the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.

Their arrest following a May 1 police raid on

More Troubling News For Turkish Media’s Independence

A riot police officer orders a news photographer to move away during an anti-government protest in central Istanbul July 28, 2013. REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX12327