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...Gas-rich Qatar boasts a collection shown across a broad range of museums, from modern art to Islamic antiquities, overseen by the emir’s sister, Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad al-Thani....
...Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, told the Financial Times that the recent postponement of Prince Mohammed’s visit was a “snub”....
...The US has opposed Israel’s plans for an assault on Rafah, hoping instead to help broker a deal between Israel and Hamas to free hostages held in Gaza and reach a ceasefire lasting at least six weeks....
...Visual and Data team: Aditi Bhandari, Jana Tauschinski, Janina Conboye, Peter Andringa, Steven Bernard, Chris Campbell, Sam Joiner, Lucy Rodgers and Alan Smith...
...Israel votes to shut down Al Jazeera: Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously yesterday to ban Al Jazeera, accusing the Qatari-funded satellite channel of being a “mouthpiece for Hamas”....
...Take a break from the news V-necks have been verboten for as long as most of us can remember, writes Teo van den Broeke....
...Al-Shifa hospital withdrawal: Israeli forces have pulled out of one of the biggest hospitals in Gaza after claiming the two-week security operation was a success. 3....
...hospital, the relatively upmarket neighbourhood of Rimal, and al-Shati and Jabalia refugee camps....
...Israel-Hamas war: Israel’s second raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital is stretching into its ninth day and shaping into the biggest battle of the nearly six-month war....
...Colonel Moshe Tetro, head of Israel’s co-ordination and liaison administration to Gaza, called reports of a siege and strikes on al-Shifa “lies”....
...In a video published online last month, the movement’s leader, Abdulmalik al-Houthi, celebrated attacks on ships it described as “American” and “British”....
...US officials have told the Financial Times that they expect Israel to switch tactics in their war against Hamas in January....
...Blinken in Middle East: The US secretary of state departs for a multi-day visit that will include Israel and other nations as the US continues diplomatic consultations amid the Israel-Hamas war....
...allegations that staff had taken part in Hamas’s October 7 attacks in Israel....
...Today’s big read “We thank God for the Houthis,” one Iraqi commenter wrote under an Instagram post by Rashed al-Haddad....
...Biden’s trip to Israel to show solidarity with the Jewish state following Hamas’s attack on October 7 has been overshadowed by the explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, which the Palestinian...
...Additional reporting by Mai Khaled in Gaza and Alan Smith in London...
...But within a few minutes’ drive lie the warrens of al-Shati and Jabalia refugee camps — and then, Gaza City, the heart of the militant group’s political and military machinery....
...Sam Fleming and Colby Smith report from Marrakech....
...Joe Biden has warned that Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza risks leaving the country isolated....
...Additional reporting by Alan Smith in London...
...conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V at the Empire Exhibition in London, and the...
...Al-Shifa hospital, in the heart of Gaza City, ran out of fuel over the weekend, local officials and the World Health Organization said, risking the lives of patients as fighting raged outside its doors....
...Related: US president Joe Biden and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have pledged to work together to advance the normalisation of Israel’s relations with Saudi Arabia. 3....
...More seriously, Goetzman et al argue that art price changes are largely a function of wealth concentration....
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