Many decades ago, the Americans proposed to use nuclear weapons to blast a waterway through the Negev Desert. But the plan never progressed. This is why it did not — and why there is some talk about the ‘Ben Gurion Canal’ again as Israel pushes to destroy Hamas in Gaza
Thousands of Palestinians sheltering from the Israel-Hamas war at Gaza City’s main hospital fled south Friday after several reported strikes in and around the compound overnight. They joined a growing exodus of people escaping intense urban fighting in the north — including near other hospitals — as Gaza officials said the territory’s death toll surpassed 11,000.
Operation of the Federal Police brings the most forceful accusation ever made about possible terrorist activity in Brazil, say researchers
Operation Trapiche of the Federal Police (PF), which arrested two men accused of being part of Hezbollah and planning attacks on synagogues in Brazil, ignited the warning about possible terrorist activities in the country, mainly in Paraná, in the triple border region with Paraguay and Argentina, where there are many Arab communities established. But experts explain that despite the seriousness of the current investigation, the most important thing ever made, there has never been concrete evidence in the past accusations that these sites are of special interest to the terrorist groups in the Middle East. Still, due to Hezbollah’s relevance as Lebanon’s political organization, it is not difficult to find residents of cities like Foz do Iguaçu and Ciudad Del Leste that have some connection with the group.
The war between Israel and Hamas makes the two-state solution less viable than ever before. Achieving peace requires political will, compromise, and initiative from the international community.
La première visite du président iranien Ebrahim Raïssi en Arabie saoudite, le 13 novembre, marque une étape importante dans le rapprochement entre les deux pays, dont la médiation a été assurée par la Chine en mars. Ces relations acquièrent rapidement un niveau de solidarité qualitativement nouveau dans le contexte du conflit israélo-palestinien.
D’après des récentes informations, certains groupes du Hezbollah libanais auraient quitté leurs positions en Afrique pour rejoindre les rangs des forces armées syriennes, en raison des tensions croissantes avec Israël.
Dans le tumulte des régions reculées de l’Algérie et du Mali, l’alliance de groupes armés opérant dans le nord du Mali, en collaboration avec le mouvement de libération du Sud de l’Algérie, a récemment rapporté la perte de huit de ses combattants au cours d’une opération conjointe contre les forces armées algériennes et maliennes. Ils ont également affirmé avoir infligé de lourdes pertes à l’armée, capturant plusieurs soldats au passage.
L’armée malienne a annoncé samedi qu’elle avait pris le « contrôle total » d’Anéfis, une ville située au nord-est du Mali et considérée comme une étape vers Kidal, un bastion de la rébellion touareg qui s’est réarmée contre le gouvernement central.
A spread of the Israel-Gaza conflict into Egypt would be very dangerous, Greece’s Migration Minister Dmitris Kairidis said at an Ankara meeting 16 days into the war, because Egypt “has a very big population”.
Africa possesses significant reserves of the minerals that are essential for batteries, solar panels and other green tech that will underpin the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables. Africa’s mining industry, however, remains largely structured around a “pit-to-port” model that channels mineral ores elsewhere for processing. The inaugural Critical Minerals Africa conference in Cape Town this month explored how this picture could be changed.