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Qatar says search continues at site of Israeli strike targeting Hamas leaders
Qatari authorities say they are still searching for two missing people and identifying human remains after an Israeli strike targeted senior Hamas leaders in Doha on Tuesday. Israeli media have reported that there is concern in Israeli military circles that the highly controversial attack was not successful. The Qatari interior ministry has identified the bodies of three of the five…
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JUST IN: British PM sacks ambassador to Washington over Epstein ties
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer fired UK Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson on Thursday over Mandelson’s ties with disgraced New York financier Jeffrey Epstein. Pressure had been mounting on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to remove Mandelson following the publication of a series of emails between the ambassador and the convicted sex offender, who is now deceased.
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In exclusive CNN interview, Qatari prime minister says Netanyahu ‘killed any hope’ for Israeli hostages
Qatar’s prime minister excoriated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an exclusive interview with CNN on Wednesday, calling Israel’s attempted assassination of Hamas leaders in Doha “barbaric.” “We were thinking that we are dealing with civilized people,” Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani told CNN’s Becky Anderson. “That’s the way we are dealing with others. And…
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In new book, Kamala Harris says it was reckless to let Biden make reelection decision on his own
“In retrospect,” Kamala Harris writes of letting Joe and Jill Biden decide on their own whether the then-president should have tried to run for re-election, “I think it was recklessness.” That is the assessment that the former vice president makes in her forthcoming memoir of her abbreviated 2024 run, in a significant break from the dutiful stance she took toward…
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Trump advisers vent anger over how Israel conducted strike in Qatar
Some advisers to President Donald Trump are angry over Israel’s decision to strike Hamas leaders inside Doha, Qatar Tuesday morning, with many particularly frustrated that they weren’t able to weigh in or warn the Qataris. Trump was informed of the strike only shortly before it began — and not by Israel itself, but by Chairman of the Joint Staff Gen.…
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South Africa’s Karavan Press awarded CANEX prize for publishing
Bolaji Adebiyi, in Algiers A South African publishing house, Karavan Press, has won the 2025 edition of the CANEX Book Prize for Publishing in Africa. The Cape Town-based company received the $20,000 Book Factory Prize in recognition of exceptional contributions by African publishers and authors to the literary world. Karavan Press was recognised for its book, In Silence My Heart…
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Bowen: Diplomacy in ruins after Israel strikes Hamas leaders in Qatar
Almost exactly a year ago I interviewed the Hamas leader and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya in Doha. I met him in a house not far from the building that Israel attacked on Tuesday afternoon. From the beginning of the war in Gaza, al-Hayya had been the chief Hamas negotiator, sending and receiving messages to the Israelis and Americans via Qatari…
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French President Emmanuel Macron appoints outgoing defense minister Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister
Beleaguered President Emmanuel Macron has appointed outgoing defense minister Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, handing him the daunting task of trying to find consensus in a divided parliament and pass the 2026 budget. Earlier on Monday, outgoing Prime Minister François Bayrou submitted his resignation, which Macron accepted. He was forced out after just nine months in office, undone by his…
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Israeli carries out strike targeting Hamas leadership in Qatar
Israel carried out an attack targeting Hamas leadership in Qatar on Tuesday, the Prime Minister’s Office said, in what appeared to be the first known Israeli military strike against the militant group in the Gulf nation. A senior Israeli official told CNN that among those targeted was Hamas’ chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya. “We are awaiting the results of the strike,”…
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Qatar presses Hamas to ‘respond positively’ to US ceasefire proposal, official says
Qatar’s prime minister pressed Hamas to “respond positively” to the new US ceasefire proposal in a meeting in Doha, according to an official familiar with the meeting. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani met with Khalil Al-Hayya, Hamas’ chief negotiator, on Monday to discuss the deal. Hamas confirmed late Sunday that it had received the proposal from the US…
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