Tag: Judiciary
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Expert Q&A: A $300 Billion Answer for Ukraine?
Bill Browder is CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign. Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to the country and declared “a threat to national security” for exposing corruption in Russian state-owned companies. OPINION — The 2025 Munich Security Conference…
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Deadline for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon expires
A deadline expired Tuesday for all Israeli troops to leave south Lebanon under a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah, hours after Israel said it planned to remain in five strategic locations. Israeli troops had started withdrawing Monday from some border villages, according to a Lebanese security official, but they seemed poised to stay in key areas.…
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The Escalating Dynamics of Iran, Israel and the US: What Could Happen Next?
Image Credit: Manuel Augusto Moreno, Getty Images The adversarial relationship between Iran and Israel has deep historical roots, tracing back more tough to the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. Prior to the revolution, Iran under the Shah was a tacit ally of Israel with a shared interest in countering Arab nationalist movements and the Soviet…
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The Escalating Dynamics of Iran, Israel and the US: What Could Happen Next?
The adversarial relationship between Iran and Israel has deep historical roots, tracing back more tough to the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. Prior to the revolution, Iran under the Shah was a tacit ally of Israel with a shared interest in countering Arab nationalist movements and the Soviet Union. The revolution brought to power an…
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Iranian Foreign Ministry condemns G7 diplomats’ statement against Tehran as unfounded
On February 15, G7 foreign ministers, following a meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, in a joint statement, condemned Iran’s actions in the sphere of nuclear energy, support for regional allies in the Middle East, its ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles program and human rights violations in the Islamic republic. The…
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Netanyahu vows to ‘finish the job’ against Iran with support from Trump
TEL AVIV — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “finish the job” against Iran with the support of US President Donald Trump. Netanyahu was speaking alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is visiting Israel on his first official trip to the region since assuming the role. “Over the last 16…
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€1,500 and a one-way ticket: how Cyprus has been quietly deporting Syrian refugees
Statewatch and UntoldMag co-published a set of edited versions of this investigation. For Abu Iskander Alshami the question of returning to a post-Assad Syria is fraught with uncertainty. “My situation is similar to 90% of Syrians – undecided,” he told The New Arab. We spoke with Alshami on 17 December 2024, just days after Syria’s…
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Here are some takeaways from the first month of Trump’s Mideast diplomacy
JERUSALEM — When Hamas threatened to call off the planned release of three Israeli hostages last week, U.S. President Donald Trump stepped into the picture with an unexpected ultimatum . Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump called on Hamas to release all of the more than 70 hostages it is holding by noon on Saturday.…
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Netanyahu vows to ‘finish the job’ against Iran with support from Trump
TEL AVIV — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “finish the job” against Iran with the support of US President Donald Trump. Netanyahu was speaking alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is visiting Israel on his first official trip to the region since assuming the role. “Over the last 16…
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Mapping Sudan’s crisis: A spatial analysis of armed attacks and civilian vulnerability
The formal separation of Sudan into the north and South went into effect in January 2011, after the South Sudanese referendum. This process was outlined in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), where the majority of voters chose secession which was applied on 9 July, 2011. The parties involved in the CPA were the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in…