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sahar ragab & Muhamad Yehia QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — The leader of the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in northeast Syria in an interview with The Associated Press called for international mediators to push for diplomatic solutions to the complex web of conflicts in Syria, including the escalating Turkish bombardment of Kurdish areas. …
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Hezbollah cleric Naim Kassem picked to lead the Lebanese militant group
Muhamad Yehia BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah announced on Tuesday that it has chosen cleric Naim Kassem to lead the Lebanese militant group after the killing of its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb in late September. The group said in a statement that Hezbollah’s decision-making Shura Council elected …
Read More »Israel’s cafes and bars, life may seem normal. But the war has cast a pall nationwide
Muhamad Yehia TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — At a busy Tel Aviv entertainment district, diners spill into outdoor seating and clink glasses as music fills the air. There’s laughter, there’s life. But all around the patrons, staring down from lampposts and shop windows, are pictures of hostages held in Gaza, stark reminders that …
Read More »Israel approves two bills that could halt UNRWA’s aid delivery to Gaza. What does that mean?
Muhamad Yehia DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel’s parliament has passed two laws that could prevent the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a main provider of aid to Gaza, from being able to continue its work. The laws ban the agency, UNRWA, from operating and cut all ties between …
Read More »Southern Africa is enduring its worst hunger crisis in decades due to El Niño, the UN says
Muhamad Yehia & sahar ragab CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades, the United Nations’ food agency said Tuesday The World …
Read More »Beyond The Seas
Muhamad Yehia & sahar ragab Demand for seafood is soaring, but oceans are giving up all they can. Can we farm fish in more sustainable ways If it still seems strange to think of fish growing on farms, it shouldn’t.Aquaculture has been the fastest growing food sector in the world for …
Read More »Meat Without The Animals
Muhamad Yehia & sahar ragab More than 150 startups are chasing an ambitious goal: meat that doesn’t require raising and killing animals that is affordable and tastes and feels like the meat we eat now. They are part of a young industry aiming to use cell biology to reduce the …
Read More »Here’s a look at what came out of Blinken’s 11th trip to the Middle East
Muhamad Yehia LONDON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s weeklong trip to the Middle East ended unexpectedly in London on Friday, but the lack of a cease-fire breakthrough for Gaza came as no surprise to U.S. and Arab officials, who described the growing regional conflicts as a “nightmare.” The trip to …
Read More »Satellite images show damage from Israeli attack at 2 secretive Iranian military bases
Muhamad Yehia DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran’s onetime nuclear weapons program and at another base tied to its ballistic missile program, satellite photos analyzed Sunday …
Read More »They fled their homes to escape Boko Haram. Now Nigeria is resettling them back despite their fears
Muhamad Yehia DAMASAK, Nigeria (AP) — When Boko Haram launched an insurgency in northeastern Nigeria in 2010, Abdulhameed Salisu packed his bag and fled from his hometown of Damasak in the country’s battered Borno state. The 45-year-old father of seven came back with his family early last year. They are among thousands …
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