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President Ilham Aliyev: Azerbaijan’s Expanding Role in Middle Eastern Diplomacy and Energy
The Daily Tribune - News Of Bahrain
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The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, gave an interview to Saudi Arabia’s “Al Arabiya” television channel. The interview with the Head of State was broadcast on August 26. In this interview, President Aliyev spoke extensively...
Oil Set For Another Weekly Gain
Oil Price
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August 29, 2025
Oil prices fell on Friday due to expectations of lower demand in the U.S. Friday, August 29, 2025 Oil prices are headed towards a second straight weekly gain of 1%, with ICE Brent hovering slightly above $68 per barrel, as hopes for a negotiated...
Turkey cuts all trade ties with Israel, closes airspace amid Gaza war
Palestine News Network
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August 30, 2025
ANKARA / PNN / Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced Friday that Ankara has decided to fully suspend all economic and trade cooperation with Israel, close Turkish airspace to Israeli aircraft and halt Turkish shipping to Israeli ports....
Iraq to undergo major solar energy transformation: Prime Minister's Office
Yeni Safak
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August 29, 2025
Iraq is on the verge of a major solar energy transformation, the National Team for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects at the Prime Minister's Office announced Thursday, confirming the finalization of all technical documents and the...
Turkish FM: Genocide in Gaza is bleeding wound for entire world
Yemen News Agency SABA
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Ankara - Saba: Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that the genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza has become a bleeding wound for the entire world. In televised remarks on Thursday, Fidan asserted that the...
Democrats Josh Turek, J.D. Scholten team up to build momentum in U.S. Senate race
The Daily Nonpareil - Iowa
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State Rep. Josh Turek quickly built momentum for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate after launching his campaign Aug. 12. Turek hosted a "homecoming campaign event" at the Hoff Family Arts and Culture Center in Council Bluffs on Monday...
Jewish Woman In Her 70s Stabbed In Ottawa Grocery Store In Suspected Hate Crime
ABP Live
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August 30, 2025
A Jewish woman in her 70s was stabbed inside a grocery store in Ottawa in what police and Jewish organisations are treating as a suspected hate crime. The attack, which took place at a Loblaws supermarket on Wednesday, has left the community...
Jewish leaders condemn 'Free Palestine' comments at CPS board meeting
FOX 32 Chicago - Illinois
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CHICAGO - Chicago Jewish leaders are calling on a Chicago Board of Education member who shouted "Free Palestine" at a Jewish colleague to resign. What we know: Board member Ellen Rosenfeld said her colleague Norma Rios Sierra shouted, "Free...
Israel recovers body of hostage Ilan Weiss as Gaza offensive intensifies
The Siasat Daily
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August 30, 2025
Jerusalem: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that it recovered the body of an Israeli hostage from the Gaza Strip as it pushes ahead with its offensive on the city. The hostage was identified as Ilan Weiss, 55, from the village of Be’eri near...
President Ilham Aliyev’s interview with Al Arabiya TV widely covered by international media
Azertag
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August 30, 2025
Berlin, August 30, AZERTAC The views expressed by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in his interview with Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya television channel have been widely covered by leading media outlets in a number of countries. The reports...
The Democrats and the Jewish community are being torn apart over their support for genocide – it’s about time
Mondoweiss
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August 29, 2025
Tom Friedman has finally reached his limit. The Gaza slaughter is turning Israel into “a pariah state,” so it’s time for the war to stop, he says. The massacre of journalists and other civilians at the Nasser hospital did it. Friedman says Gaza is...
Ghana’s Banking College Prepares for Islamic Finance Launch
News Ghana
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August 30, 2025
Ghana’s premier financial training institution is gearing up to introduce Islamic banking education programs next year, anticipating the central bank’s plans to introduce Sharia-compliant financial services to the market. The National Banking...
Polls suggest this man could become Turkey’s next president
Cyprus Mail
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August 30, 2025
Erdoğan is doing everything to stop him By William Gourlay A Turkish proverb – düştüğün yerden kalk – counsels that one should arise from where one has fallen. Ekrem İmamoğlu, the jailed mayor of Istanbul and main rival to President Recep Tayyip...
Hamas welcomes Turkey’s airspace ban on Israel over Gaza genocide
Press TV
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Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has praised Turkey’s decision to close its airspace to Israeli aircraft and restrict trade ties with Tel Aviv, describing the measures as a firm stance against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. “The Islamic...
As Israel seeks to empty Gaza City, its residents weigh whether to leave
The Guam Daily Post
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TEL AVIV - For days, Ali Ahmed had been getting text messages from the Israeli army urging him to evacuate from Gaza City. The sound of Israeli artillery and demolition robots clearing buildings had grown louder, he recalled, and the explosions...
Son of Hamas, Mosab Hassan Yousef, on why he speaks out so strongly for Israel
All Israel News
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August 30, 2025
“The biggest terrorist is the god of the Quran,” says Mosab Hassan Yousef, never one to shy away from controversy. “I know this is very dangerous,” he concedes. Describing the aims of the terror organization co-founded by his father, Sheikh Hassan...
New platform that includes more Malay/Muslim groups being developed: Faishal Ibrahim
The Straits Times
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August 29, 2025
SINGAPORE - A refined framework bringing together the efforts of both established Malay/Muslim organisations and newer groups is being formed, said Acting Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Faishal Ibrahim. This initiative will go beyond the...
Erdoğan receives delegation of International Union of Muslim Scholars
Hurriyet Daily News
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ISTANBUL President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday received a delegation from the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), who were in Istanbul to attend the eight-day conference titled “An Islamic and Humanitarian Responsibility: Gaza.” The...
Over 100 Sacramento Jews protest Senator Alex Padilla as part of actions against genocide in Gaza
Indybay - California
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August 29, 2025
The group said the Israeli military is starving the people of Gaza through a five month total blockade on food, water and medicine, while the Israeli government has announced a plan to forcibly transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a...
Three quarters of Muslim mums stressed about school lunches
Ealing Times
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The survey revealed that 92% of Muslim parents send kids off with a packed lunch, despite two thirds believing schools provide enough halal options. Nearly all mums (98%) said that ensuring food was halal was a top priority, with other concerns...