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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is set to visit Lebanon on 19 May to announce the disarmament of Palestinian resistance factions, by force if necessary, Middle East Eye can reveal. Palestinian and Lebanese sources told MEE that Abbas will travel to Beirut on an official visit to meet the Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun and other top officials. During the trip, the Lebanese government and Abbas will announce the demilitarisation of the Lebanon branch of his own Fatah movement as well as other Palestinian factions based in refugee camps across the country. Sources said Abbas has already agreed to a plan to remove Fatah’s…

[The following report is derived from Marco Mayer’s recent conversation with Francesco Sisci in Rome.]All main international media are highlighting the news that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has put two videos online [“Secure Contact with the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)”, link here] to recruit Chinese officials as their informants and agents. How do you judge the technical quality and media impact of the message?The videos are very well made; they go to the heart of the problems afflicting the Chinese hierarchy’s two poles – the boss and the secretary. Both can lose their job and their fortune or freedom…

Logo of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesU.S. crude oil futures fell about 2% on Monday to close at the lowest in four years, after OPEC+ agreed to hike production for a second month.U.S. crude lost $1.16, or 2%, to close at $57.13 a barrel, the lowest settlement since February 2021. Global benchmark Brent crude fell $1.06, or 1.7%, to settle at $60.23 per barrel. Oil prices have fallen about 20% this year.The eight producers in the group, led by Saudi Arabia, agreed on Saturday to increase output by another 411,000 barrels…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 30, 2025 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesThe S&P 500 fell Monday, ending a nine-day rally as investors monitored the latest developments on global trade.The broad-market index shed 0.64% to close at 5,650.38, while the Nasdaq Composite dipped 0.74% to end at 17,844.24. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 98.60 points, or 0.24%, to settle at 41,218.83. The S&P 500 came into the session riding a nine-day winning streak, its longest since 2004.At its lows, the Dow fell as much as 253.99 points, while…

On whether already being champions and rotating his team affected the performance…That, we will never know, but I think what we also saw today were a lot of things that we’ve seen throughout the whole season. Us playing through the high press of the opponent so many times and so many moments that we arrived in the final third. But I also saw us defending today, not that I am used to it always, so the last percentages were not of a normal standard. In the final third we come there so many times and normally we are able to…

Ayed Ghafri no longer allows his children to play in the yard. The Palestinian resident of Sinjil in the occupied West Bank is haunted by the recent uptick in settler violence against Palestinians.  Surrounded by five Israeli settlements from east to west, the town north of Ramallah is often a target of settler violence, including arson attacks and the throwing of stones.  However, the attacks intensified in recent months, forcing some families to flee and others to remain trapped indoors, fearful for their safety.  “The attacks are daily and frequent because the settlement was built next to our homes,” Ghafri…

India has demolished at least ten homes over the last week belonging to suspected rebels in the region after 26 people were killed in an attack in Pahalgam, Indian-controlled Kashmir, in April. The ongoing demolitions have sparked anger with locals, who call the punishment an “Israeli tactic”.  On Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a meeting with the military’s top brass in New Delhi, gave India’s armed forces “complete operational freedom.” While that has sparked global fears of an armed conflict between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India, in Kashmir it has meant that the armed forces have subjected locals to a…

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said the UK government is involved in discussions with France and Saudi Arabia about recognising a Palestinian state ahead of a key United Nations conference on the issue in June. Speaking to the House of Lords’ international relations and defence committee on Wednesday, Lammy said it was “unacceptable” that the Palestinian people remained stateless, and said a two-state solution remained the only option. He acknowledged for the first time that the UK was working with France and Saudi Arabia in the run-up to the UN conference in New York to “to ensure we keep…

Pakistan says it has credible intelligence that a military incursion by India was “imminent” in the aftermath of a deadly attack by gunmen on a group of tourists in India-administered Kashmir that killed 26 people earlier this month.  “We have reinforced our forces because it is something which is imminent now. So in that situation, some strategic decisions have to be taken, so those decisions have been taken,” Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said during an interview in Islamabad on Tuesday, and was reiterated by Pakistani officials on Wednesday during a press conference. Late on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Federal Minister…

Israeli settlers entered the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem early Tuesday, escorted by Israeli police, Wafa reported. The settlers reportedly moved in groups, toured the compound in what local sources described as a provocative display. Among those present was far-right rabbi Shimshon Alboim, who leads a group advocating for the mosque’s demolition to build a Jewish temple. Witnesses said Israeli police imposed tight restrictions on Palestinian worshippers at the mosque, seizing identity cards at the gates and limiting access. The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf confirmed that extremist “Temple Groups” have launched a petition urging far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to…