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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Houthi movement
    US accuses Houthis of ‘kidnapping’ crew members from sunk vessel

    Yemeni rebels have scaled up assaults on commercial shipping this week

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    A handout from the Houthis’ media centre reportedly shows the bulk carrier Eternity C after it was attacked by the Yemeni rebels
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Boston Consulting Group Inc
    BCG’s role in Gaza probed by UK parliamentary committee

    Pressure intensifies on US consultancy as MPs demand ‘clarification and information’ on firm’s involvement

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Henry Sokolski
    The old nuclear rules won’t stop proliferation

    So long as nuclear fuel-making is permitted and NPT violators can easily exit the treaty, more nations will seek the bomb

    Launch of a Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Kurdistan Workers' Party
    Turkey’s jailed Kurdish leader renews disarmament call in rare video

    Video of Kurdistan Workers’ party leader Abdullah Ocalan marks his first public appearance in over two decades

    Abdullah Öcalan’s video message
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Money laundering
    EU to remove UAE and Gibraltar from money laundering ‘grey’ list

    Gulf state had raised the issue in trade talks with Brussels

    Skyscrapers on the Dubai city skyline
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Shipping
    Red Sea ship insurance prices jump as Houthis resume attacks

    Sunday’s assault by the group was the first since December, prompting concerns about an escalation

    A Greek-flagged oil tanker on fire
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Gaza’s controversial aid scheme fuels black market for vital goods

    Extreme shortages and dangers securing supplies drive trade in food distributed by US-backed foundation

    People carry aid parcels along the Salah al-Din road near the Nusseirat refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    BCG chief admits Gaza work was ‘reputationally very damaging’

    Christoph Schweizer says consultancy’s role has been ‘profoundly disappointing’ as Save the Children halts partnership

    Palestinians, some carrying aid parcels, walking past destroyed buildings near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza strip on June 25 2025
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Abbas Araghchi
    Iran’s foreign minister: Israel’s war sabotaged diplomacy. The US can revive it

    Our commitment to acting responsibly to avoid a full-scale regional war should not be misinterpreted as weakness

    A damaged building that was hit by an Israeli air strike, in Tehran, Iran
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Middle East war
    No breakthrough on Middle East peace as Trump and Netanyahu meet

    US president hails ‘tremendous success’ with Israel and claims progress on plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza

    US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a dinner in the White House on Monday
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    News in-depthMiddle Eastern politics & society
    Algeria buffeted by winds of change in north Africa

    New tensions with the UAE, France, Russia and Israel have jolted authoritarian regime

    Brahim Ghali, president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and secretary-general of the Polisario front, salutes the flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ahead of a Polisario congress at the refugee camp of Dakhla
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    Iran
    Iran’s president says Israel tried to kill him during 12-day war

    Masoud Pezeshkian says he would be open to renewed dialogue with the US over country’s nuclear programme

    Tucker Carlson Interviews President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    BCG gets caught up in a scandal in Gaza

    The episode raises serious questions over processes at the global consulting firm

    A general view of damaged buildings and ruins in northern Gaza
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    Yemen
    Israel strikes Yemeni ports soon after Houthi attack on Red Sea vessel

    Intense assault on Magic Seas is the first by rebel group since December

    Ships are docked at the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    Turkey
    Turkey to probe opposition leader for insulting Erdoğan

    Markets fall as investigation into CHP head Özgür Özel over comments about president unnerves investors

    Özgür Özel
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Netanyahu and Trump to discuss new Gaza deal at White House

    Negotiators discuss terms of potential ceasefire with Hamas but big gaps persist as Israeli leader heads for Washington

    Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Donald Trump at the White House in April
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Gaza
    Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG

    Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub

    Concept for postwar Gaza from the ‘Great Trust’ slide deck
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Iran
    Iran’s supreme leader appears in public for first time since Israeli attack

    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s attendance at ceremony follows speculation about his safety

    Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Shia ceremony in Tehran
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    PwC
    PwC lines up UK managing partner as new Middle East head

    Planned leadership reshuffle at Big Four firm comes after recent clash with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund

    An artist’s image of Jaumur, one of Neom’s planned developments on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Gaza on brink of running out of fuel in Israeli siege

    Lack of diesel and other fuels threatens water supplies, sanitation and hospitals

    A Palestinian sits next to bottles of fuel extracted from melted plastic, for sale along the Sea Road south of Gaza City
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Israel’s quiet war in the West Bank

    A Palestinian village was forcibly emptied this week. Its former residents say more will follow

    Palestinian villagers move out of the Palestinian village of Mu’arrajat, after Israeli right-wing settlers took control of the area
  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel to join ceasefire talks despite ‘unacceptable’ response from Hamas

    Netanyahu says he will send a negotiating team to Doha to begin indirect negotiations aimed at halting the war in Gaza

    Smoke rises in Gaza following a military strike, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on Saturday
  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Hamas gives ‘positive’ response to Trump proposal for Gaza ceasefire

    US president says there could be ‘deal next week’ after militant group expresses willingness to enter new round of talks

    A Palestinian mother and her daughter rush for cover during an Israeli strike at a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 4 2025
  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    FT Magazine
    Return to Syria: what I found amid the ruins of Homs

    Living in exile, Ammar Azzouz studied urban destruction in war. Then he returned to the ruins of his own city

    A lone figure walks through a devastated urban landscape framed by ruined buildings and remnants of concrete structures
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    UK society
    Palestine Action loses bid to secure block on UK government ban

    Activist group that broke into RAF military base will be proscribed as a terrorist organisation from midnight

    Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand, central London, ahead of a hearing over whether proscribing of Palestine Action should be temporarily blocked
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