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Huawei and UNESCO IITE jointly launch 10th Middle East & Central Asia ICT Competition, pledges to train 1 million digital talents
Dubai, UAE – Huawei, in partnership with the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE), is pleased to announce the launch of the 10th Huawei Middle East and Central Asia ICT Competition at GITEX Global 2025. The launch...

Amid Middle East peace plan, some students express unease over shaky process
MERCED, Calif. — The attacks in Israel by Hamas two years ago on Oct. 7th sparked a fresh conflict in the Middle East and a fresh wave of protest over war interventions by the United States. The protests were largely led by students at college...

EXCLUSIVE: Not Another Four Years! How 'Dictator-Style' Donald Trump 'Could Run for Third Term After Deifying Himself Over Flawed Middle East 'Peace' Deal
Donald Trump could attempt to stay in power beyond the constitutionally allowed two terms – with the Supreme Court potentially clearing the path for him – according to journalist and author Michael Wolff. RadarOnline.com can reveal he believes the...

Trump wants peace in the Middle East but war in the US
Letters Editor's Note: It was a mixed bag but war and peace seemed to dominanate the conversations coming from our letter writers this week. By war, I mean the president's use of military here at home. We received a few letters about that. By...

Israel’s Perpetual War Machine Demonstrates That Environmental Warfare Is A Tool
Environmental destruction in Gaza is a calculated military strategy. By poisoning the land and water, Israel is ensuring a permanent and toxic genocide. Seen from the point of view of colonial history, climate transformation is not the accidental...

Israel Violates Ceasefire In Lebanon Almost Daily: OHCHR
Lebanese people walk amid shambles. Photo: NPR. October 17, 2025 Hour: 2:28 pm On Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) denounced that Israeli occupation forces have kidnapped 19 people and killed 108 civilians, including 37 women...

Turkish court sentences social media influencer to prison over X posts
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced social media influencer Bekir Aslan to prison for social media posts allegedly “disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization,” the T24 news website reported. The İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court...

UN Commends Egypt's Role in Hosting Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit
Fri 17 Oct 2025 | 11:02 PM The United Nations has praised Egypt for its pivotal role in hosting and ensuring the success of the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit, which aimed at addressing the ongoing conflict in Gaza and promoting peace and stability...

'A rock and a hard place:' Arab peacekeepers will face pitfalls and perils in Gaza
What would Arab or Muslim troops patrolling Gaza do if they came under Israeli fire? Arab diplomats and officials with experience in peacekeeping say the potentially explosive scenario hovers over plans for an "International Stabilisation Force"...

Bumps on the road to foreign campuses for Saudi Arabia
SAUDI ARABIA The establishment of foreign university campuses in Saudi Arabia is governed by the Executive Rules Regulating Foreign Universities’ Branches, a set of complicated rules implementing the decision of the University Affairs Council...

Exclusive: Syria’s Kurdish Region’s Ongoing Conflict with an Extremist Regime
Qamishli, the largest city in Rojava, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), Syria. Photo by Antonio Graceffo. When you cross the border from Iraqi Kurdistan into the Kurdish autonomous region of Syria, called Rojava, formally...

Saudi Arabia’s 95th National Day Celebrated in The Hague
On 23 September, His Highness Prince Jalawi bin Turki Al Saud hosted an elegant reception to celebrate the 95th National Day of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, attended by members of the Dutch government, ambassadors from around the world, members of...

Venezuela Condemns Israeli Airstrikes on Lebanon
Fireball from an Israeli bomb in southern Lebanon, Oct. 16, 2025. X/ @Marwa__Osman October 17, 2025 Hour: 3:00 pm On Friday, Venezuela condemned the airstrikes carried out by the Israeli occupation army against the Lebanese population. RELATED:...

“The Children of Charlisle”: Remembering Indian Boarding Schools
On Oct. 4, Whitman College and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) organized the third annual Day of Remembrance, an event designed to honor the history of Indigenous boarding schools and their enduring impacts in...

Behind the scenes at Britain's university-organised pro-Palestine protests where students 'glorify Hamas'
Students at universities across Britain have been witnessed "glorifying Hamas's October 7 attack" as critics have expressed fears that higher education centres could be "harbouring some people who are genuine Islamist terrorists". On the second...
Texas State University upholds firing of Professor Tom Alter for political speech
Professor Thomas Alter, a historian of labor and the American left, has been fired by Texas State University for political speech. The move is not only an attack on Alter’s rights as a tenured faculty member, a worker, and a citizen, it is an...

Unloving Italy? On the Italian Hysteria over Israel
I lie awake thinking of Italy, love and broken illusions. And even the news of the return of the Hamas-held hostages to Israel does not dispel all my sadness. I visualize some of the happiest times in my life. My parents and I, former refuseniks,...

In new book, IU professor draws on hundreds of interviews with Syrian refugees to assess antisemitism
Günther Jikeli, the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at Indiana University’s Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington,...
World-Renowned Pianist Riyad Nicolas to Perform October 22 Recital at Monmouth College
MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (October 17, 2025) — As part of Homecoming weekend festivities at Monmouth College, 2015 graduate Mariela Shaker will be formally announced as the recipient of her alma mater's Distinguished Young Alumnus Award. The London-based...
Hamas reaffirms commitment to ceasefire with Israel
Delays in returning hostages’ bodies fray nerves Deir Al-Balah, Oct 17: Hamas moved Friday to shore up its brittle ceasefire agreement with Israel by reaffirming its commitment to the terms of the deal, including a pledge to hand over the remains...