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  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Martin Sandbu
    It’s in Europe’s interest to put sanctions on Israel

    Limiting trade, travel and freezing foreign reserves would show the EU is willing to act independently of the US

    Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia plans for safer Hajj as more than 1mn pilgrims arrive

    Tree planting and stricter entrance rules aim to keep visitors fewer and cooler after more than 1,000 deaths last year

    Muslim worshippers gather around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque complex in the holy city of Mecca
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    How Israel is forcing Gazans off their land

    FT analysis of evacuation orders and satellite imagery shows Palestinians being squeezed into an ever denser sliver of territory

    Displaced Palestinians use a cart to move their belongings at the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Dozens of Gazans killed and injured trying to get aid, health ministry says

    IDF denies firing on civilians after more than 30 deaths among people headed to controversial humanitarian hubs

    Injured Palestinians are taken to the Nasser Hospital for treatment after Israeli soldiers reportedly opened fire on people collecting food aid from distribution hubs in Rafah, southern Gaza
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    UK backs Morocco’s ‘autonomy plan’ for Western Sahara

    David Lammy’s comments amount to effective British recognition of Rabat’s sovereignty over disputed territory

    A Moroccan flag flies over an army post in Western Sahara near the Mauritanian border
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    News in-depthUS-Iran tensions
    Military briefing: How Iran is preparing for Israeli or US strikes

    Tehran is rebuilding air defences hit by Israel last year as threat of new attacks looms

    A Tehran woman walks past a banner showing Iranian missile launches
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Can the Gulf really become an AI superpower?

    Saudi Arabia and UAE plough billions into infrastructure but need more talent and start-ups

    Montage of Donald Trump between the flags of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    US rejects Hamas response to new Gaza ceasefire proposal

    Washington’s envoy urges militant group to accept pause in fighting and to release Israeli hostages

  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Iran nuclear deal
    Iran has increased enriched uranium by 50%, says UN watchdog

    IAEA findings raise new concerns over country’s capabilities amid nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington

    Members of the Iranian delegation leave the Omani embassy where the fifth round of US-Iran talks took place in Rome on May 23
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Scoreboard
    The real Champions League final Premium content

    Plus, the stadium arms race goes up another gear

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    The fate of Gaza: ‘It all depends on Trump’

    Heavy casualties and the risk of widespread starvation have led to new pressure on Israel to halt its offensive. But US influence will be decisive

    Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Donald Trump
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Entire Gaza population at risk of famine, says UN

    Latest warning on starving population comes as Hamas considers ceasefire proposal

    Displaced Palestinians gather outside a charity kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza on Friday
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    The best books of the week
    Saudi Arabia: A Modern History — tradition versus modernity

    David Commins’ nuanced analysis of the kingdom’s transformation highlights the ongoing tensions that the monarchy needs to manage

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Inside the battle to save patients in Gaza’s last hospitals

    Bacteria ‘like monsters’ on overcrowded wards as doctors run out of basic supplies including antibiotics

    A man is treated at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc
    Ben & Jerry’s calls Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘genocide’

    Ice cream maker is already in a legal dispute with parent company Unilever over its political activism

    Pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream are displayed on a store shelf
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Ireland
    Top Kinahan drug cartel sidekick extradited to Ireland from UAE

    Pressure rises on organisation’s boss Daniel Kinahan, who remains in Dubai, as Sean McGovern is charged in Dublin

    Members of the Gardai armed support unit patrol outside the Special Criminal Court in Dublin before the court appearance of Sean McGovern,
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    US contractor hires obscure Gaza group for aid rollout after local snubs

    Private military company agrees deal with little-known firm to provide Palestinians to staff controversial centres

    People ride a cart as Palestinians seeking aid gather near an aid distribution site run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 27 2025
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Palestinians loot food warehouse as hunger deepens Gaza chaos

    Incident follows disruption at food distribution site as Israel continues to limit supplies in 79-day siege

    Palestinians carry bags of food aid after storming a WFP warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia to ‘take stock’ of spending after oil price drop

    Finance minister tells FT the kingdom’s priority is to avoid long-running ‘trap of booms and busts’

    General view of Aramco’s oilfield in the Empty Quarter, Shaybah, Saudi Arabia
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    West Bank
    Israel announces expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank

    Ministers hail decision as ‘historic’ but move likely to increase international condemnation

    Israeli flags are prominently displayed on and around the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, West Bank in April 2025
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    US foreign policy
    Trump warns Netanyahu not to strike Iran as US holds talks with Tehran

    American president’s comments signal tensions with ally Israel

    Donald Trump
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Saudi Arabia seeks to use financial might to muscle into global AI industry

    PIF-backed Humain courts US tech investors and plans $10bn venture fund

    Tareq Amin, chief executive of Humain
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    UK defends trade envoy’s trip to Israel even after suspending talks

    Ian Austin was pictured on a trip to Haifa a week after foreign secretary criticised the ‘abominable’ situation in Gaza

    Lord Ian Austin visits Israel
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Desperate Gazans overwhelm aid hub run by US-backed group

    Chaos adds to concerns about ability of little-known Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to distribute aid to starving population

    Palestinians gather near an aid distribution site run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Israel and Syria hold direct talks to curb spiralling tensions

    Dialogue with new leadership in Damascus follows spate of Israeli air strikes

    Members of Syrian security forces stand guard at a damaged site, after Israel carried out an air strike on the Syrian capital Damascus on March 13, as reported by Syria’s state news agency
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