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Gaza becomes Gurgaon? Donald Trump is trying something different in the world's most devastated piece of real estate. He wants to uproot Gaza and create a real estate Palms Jumeirah or a West Asian version of the French Riviera. In effect, his plan is to junk the one- or two-state solution to the Palestine problem by proposing a real estate solution.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON : The future of the precarious Gaza cease-fire is expected to dominate much of the closed-door discussion when President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the Oval Office Tuesday.

Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT), as it seeks to make the country an attractive investment destination for foreign investors.

Gaza peace deal until all the hostages return, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Israeli Embassy here Fares Saeb said. «We will follow the deal signed until we see all our hostages back; the living ones to continue their lives with their families and the deceased ones to receive a proper burial and funeral back at their homes,» he told PTI here on Monday on the sidelines of an event.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Thousands of Palestinians began returning to a ravaged northern Gaza and what was left of their homes and families, after Hamas agreed to release more hostages than expected this week to keep its cease-fire with Israel in place. Israel allowed displaced Gazans to begin crossing a military zone that bisects the enclave on Monday after Israeli forces refused their movement over the weekend, when the return of Palestinians was expected per the cease-fire deal.

hostage release to follow hours later, opening the way to a possible end to a 15-month war that has upended the Middle East.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump's Mideast envoys — but even then it seemed it might come apart at the last minute.

The long-awaited ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas was reached late Wednesday. The latest deal could end more than a year of bloodshed in the Middle East.Qatar and the United States announced Wednesday the ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas, adding they hoped it would pave the way for a permanent end to the war in Gaza.Qatar's Prime Minister confirmed that the ceasefire in Gaza will begin on Sunday, and that 33 Israeli hostages will be released in the first phase of its truce with Hamas.

Qatar, Egypt, and the United States in a joint statement on Wednesday confirmed that Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire and hostage release deal.

Gaza ceasefire talks have resumed in Qatar, with mediator Qatar indicating that a deal between Israel and Hamas is «very close.»

hostage release agreement designed to end the war in Gaza, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters on Monday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Saudi Arabia and other Arab states are jockeying for influence with Syria’s Islamist government, hoping to gain an advantage on rivals in the strategically positioned country despite misgivings about the jihadist past of its new leaders.

The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has landed at Damascus airport

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bayt al-Hikma, or the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, emerged in the ninth century—even before the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, widely considered the first academy of sciences. The Banu Musa brothers, sons of an astronomer in Baghdad, created the first machine with a stored program there and scientific textbooks from the institute were translated and made their way to Europe.

low ash metallurgical coke for six months from January 1 to June 30, 2025, according to a notification. The government has also imposed quantitative restrictions (QR) on the imports from certain countries, including Australia, China, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, and the UK.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. DAMASCUS, Syria—Victorious Islamist rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa spends his days conferring with advisers and meeting a stream of visitors—U.S. diplomats and leaders from Turkey, Jordan, Qatar and Syria’s religious sects They all want to know the same thing: How does Sharaa plan to govern the war-battered nation of 23 million people? Sharaa, a guerrilla fighter who led the campaign that toppled the regime of Bashar al-Assad, is seeking an answer.

Qatar will stop shipping gas to the EU if member states strictly enforce a new law cracking down on forced labour and environmental damage, Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi told the Financial Times in an interview published on Sunday. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, approved this year, requires larger companies operating in the European Union to check whether their supply chains use forced labour or cause environmental damage and to take action if they do. Penalties include fines of up to 5% of global turnover. «If the case is that I lose 5% of my generated revenue by going to Europe, I will not go to Europe. I'm not bluffing, Kaabi told the newspaper, adding that „5% of generated revenue of QatarEnergy means 5% of generated revenue of the Qatar state. This is the people's money,  so I cannot lose that kind of money — and nobody would accept losing that kind of money.“

The mediators, at talks in Egypt and Qatar, seek to forge a deal to pause the 14-month-old war in the Hamas-ruled enclave that would include a release of hostages seized from Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, along with Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Mediators had managed to narrow some gaps on previous sticking points but differences remained, the sources said.

Just hours before his departure, Assad addressed senior military and security officials, assuring them that Russian military support was imminent. According to a commander present at the briefing, he urged the ground forces to hold their positions. However, this claim turned out to be false, as Russia had no plans to intervene further. Also Read: Where’s Joe? Vice President Kamala Harris seems to have snubbed the President for not inviting him for Sunday brunch last week