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Israel to host top Arab diplomats during Blinken's visit

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Friday it would host the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Bahrain during U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit early next week, in what would be the latest in a flurry of high-level meetings held across the Middle East. The...

Knife-wielding Arab man kills three in Israel

A knife-wielding Arab man on Tuesday killed three people and seriously wounded two others in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba before he was killed. Officials called the rampage a nationalistically motivated terror attack. Police gave few additional details. But Israeli media...

Iran says U.S. has to make decision on reviving nuclear deal

DUBAI, March 14 (Reuters) - The United States needs to make a decision to wrap up a deal to salvage Iran's 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday amid fears that talks in Vienna might collapse. Efforts to clinch a new deal were left in...

The forgotten cry of Yazidi women

On International Women’s Day last week, I remembered a quote by the late UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was known as the Iron Lady: “If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” Last Tuesday, millions of women around the globe were celebrated...