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    • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel defends high-tech evacuation plan amid rising Gaza death toll

      Palestinian civilians say they have no safe refuge after thousands are killed in bombings

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      Palestinians flee the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza
    • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
      Global trade
      Houthi attacks on vessels in Red Sea sound alarm for global trade

      Shipowners demand more military protection for maritime routes amid fears of widening Middle East conflict

    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
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      Qatar slashes stake in Barclays with £510mn share sale

      Sovereign wealth fund makes move amid pressure on bank to improve its performance

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    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      LexOil & Gas industry
      Strait of Hormuz/oil: sanguine markets belie growing risk Premium content

      The world is less reliant than it was on Middle Eastern hydrocarbons, but disruption in the strait would still push up prices

      The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and other warships cross the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
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      The Israel-Hamas war in maps: latest updates

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of Gaza map and photograph of Israeli tanks on the border
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel pounds southern Gaza after US warning on civilian deaths

      Evacuation orders appear to signal preparations for ground offensive in territory’s second city Khan Younis

      Smoke rising in Khan Younis
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      Gideon Rachman
      America and a crumbling global order

      Political division and turmoil at home are undermining US leadership overseas

      Illustration of Joe Biden pushing his way between flags of other counties while his foot makes a slit in the US flag he is standing on, which has a Maga hat lying on one half
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      Europe Express
      Belgium’s De Croo calls for end to civilian casualties in Gaza Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: The race for who will lead the EIB comes to a head

      Alexander De Croo, Benjamin Netanyahu and Pedro Sánchez
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      HTSI
      Three Iranian women fighting for artistic freedom

      Shirin Neshat, Nazy Nazhand and Sheree Hovsepian’s friendship is seeded in their heritage — and has bloomed through their work

      From left: Nazy Nazhand, Sheree Hovsepian and Shirin Neshat at Neshat’s studio in Brooklyn, New York
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      News in-depthMiddle East military briefing
      How Israel is attacking Hamas’s vast tunnel network

      Subterranean labyrinth thought to be larger than London Underground holds key to Israel’s offensive in Gaza

      Militants in Gaza look inside a tunnel
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
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      Wealthy Argentines flock to Uruguay

      Just an hour’s boat ride away sits a haven from economic instability — with increasingly attractive tax breaks for foreigners

    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      Rocco Forte Hotels Ltd
      Saudi Arabia buys 49% of Rocco Forte’s luxury hotel chain

      Country’s $700bn Public Investment Fund plans to invest tens of millions to double the chain’s portfolio in five years

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    • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US warship and commercial vessels attacked in Red Sea, says Pentagon

      Reports of drone strikes add to fears that Israel-Hamas war could spread across Middle East

      The USS Carney
    • Saturday, 2 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US warns that Israel risks ‘strategic defeat’ unless it protects civilians in Gaza

      Comments by defence secretary Lloyd Austin highlight tensions between allies over mounting fatalities

    • Saturday, 2 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel-Hamas truce talks stall after Mossad negotiators leave Qatar

      Israel accuses militant group of reneging on agreement and resumes bombardment of Gaza

    • Saturday, 2 December, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Shattered Israel-Hamas truce leaves Gaza’s civilians with nowhere left to run

      Exhausted population ordered to move again as Israeli bombardment returns

      Israel is encouraging Palestinians to flee to what it described as a ‘humanitarian area’
    • Saturday, 2 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel and Hamas resume fighting after ceasefire expires

      Air strikes reported across Gaza and southern Israel as international mediators work to renew truce

      A man shouts as he carries a young child
    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
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      UAE COP28 guest list led by bankers, lobbyists — and housekeeping

      Total attendance at climate change conference in Dubai is estimated at about 80,000

    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
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      Israel exposes Obama-Biden friction Premium content

      There is a genuine breach within the Democratic party, which also runs through the president’s administration

      Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., speaks alongside state legislators and faith leaders currently on hunger strike outside the White House to demand that President Joe Biden call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza
    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      In maps: Israel’s forced evacuations in Gaza

      Ahead of military operations, Gazans will be told to flee to different zones to ‘protect their safety’

    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      Lawrence Freedman
      The only way out of the Gaza impasse requires global effort

      Only the US and the rest of the Arab world can help longer-term as the fragile ceasefire is breached

      A soldier stands in front of a tank in a bomb-damaged part of Palestine
    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel plans for ‘long war’ and aims to kill top three Hamas leaders

      People familiar with strategy say intensive ground offensive in Gaza will continue into early 2024

      Israeli troops walk past destroyed buildings on the outskirts of Gaza City
    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      InterviewIsrael-Hamas war
      UN warns of humanitarian ‘tsunami’ as Israel-Hamas hostilities resume

      Head of Palestinian refugee agency fears Gaza’s population will begin dying from diseases as well as Israel’s bombardment

      Palestinians near Nasser Hospital
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
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      UK to probe Abu Dhabi-backed bid for Telegraph group

      Regulators to investigate RedBird IMI’s debt for equity deal, but not its repayment of bank loans owed by the Barclay family

      A copy of the Daily Telegraph newspaper at a news stand next to magazines
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Hamas releases eight more hostages amid push to extend fragile truce

      Temporary ceasefire to expire on Friday unless agreement is reached between Israel and Palestinian militant group

      Mia Schem, 21, reunites with her mother and brother following her release after being held hostage by the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Hatzerim military base in Israel
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