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Even as it Strikes Deals with Trump, the Gulf Embraces Chinese Tech Giants
China

Even as it Strikes Deals with Trump, the Gulf Embraces Chinese Tech Giants

Neil Thompson

Chinese technology firms are increasingly competing with US ones in major Middle Eastern markets, escalating technology-related US national security concerns. London (Special to Informed Comment; […]

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya

05/13/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Netanyahu’s Occupation Plan for Gaza means more Suffering for Palestinians and less Security for Israel

Netanyahu’s Occupation Plan for Gaza means more Suffering for Palestinians and less Security for Israel

05/13/2025 By The Conversation

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Afghanistan
40 Killed in Afghan Wedding Bombing; <br/> 4 US Troops killed in Helicopter Downing

40 Killed in Afghan Wedding Bombing;
4 US Troops killed in Helicopter Downing

A wedding in Nagaan in Qandahar province was bombed on Wednesday, killing at least 40 persons and wounding at least 70. The new violence comes […]

Juan Cole

Islam
A Sign of Modernization: Saudi Clerics Promote Kinship by Sharing Breast Milk

A Sign of Modernization: Saudi Clerics Promote Kinship by Sharing Breast Milk

Two Saudi clerics have followed an Egyptian one in advocating breast-milk feeding as a way of establishing kinship between men and women, which would then […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Mystery of Iranian Nuclear Scientist and the Duelling YouTube Videos

Mystery of Iranian Nuclear Scientist and the Duelling YouTube Videos

Aljazeera English reports on the two contradictory videos that have surfaced, in one of which Dr. Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist, maintains that he […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Raid Survivor Says he Disarmed 2 Israeli Commandos in Midst of Shooting Rampage

Raid Survivor Says he Disarmed 2 Israeli Commandos in Midst of Shooting Rampage

Kenneth O’Keefe, a victim of the brutal Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara on Memorial Day that killed one American citizen and 8 others, at […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Insurgents Kill 10 NATO Troops; <br/> Afghanistan Condemns Israel

Insurgents Kill 10 NATO Troops;
Afghanistan Condemns Israel

Insurgents in Afghanistan killed 10 NATO troops on Monday, 7 of them Americans. Five of the US troops were killed in Eastern Afghanistan, the two […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Catty BP Strategies in Gulf

Catty BP Strategies in Gulf

Catty BP Strategies in Gulf

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Jewish Gaza Aid Flotilla Planned

Jewish Gaza Aid Flotilla Planned

Now a German Jewish organization, Jewish Voice for Peace in the Middle East, is planning an aid flotilla to Gaza! Please send them money. There […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
“Peace is Terror, Protest is Terror” <br> – The Israeli Ministry of Truth

“Peace is Terror, Protest is Terror”
– The Israeli Ministry of Truth

Eric Blair, a.k.a. George Orwell, is often wrongly thought to have been writing science fiction in his seminal novel, 1984. In fact, he was simply […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Key Afghan Security Officials Sacked by Karzai <br/> Taliban Reject Peace Talks<br/> Bombings in Jalalabad, Kunduz, Qandahar

Key Afghan Security Officials Sacked by Karzai
Taliban Reject Peace Talks
Bombings in Jalalabad, Kunduz, Qandahar

The security situation in Afghanistan continued to be bad on Sunday. In Jalalabad in the eastern Pashtun region, a roadside bomb targeting a US convoy […]

Juan Cole

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