In an unprecedented electoral breakthrough, five pro-Gaza independents won seats in the UK parliament following Thursday night's general election. This included former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who won re-election to parliament on Friday as an independent candidate. Corbyn, 75, who has represented the London constituency of Islington North for more than 40 years, won the seat comfortably -- but for the first time without Labour affiliation. Jonathan Ashworth, who had been expected to serve in Keir Starmer's Labour government, lost his seat to independent candidateShockat Adam. However, ve...
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Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday for a two-day official visit, marking his first trip to the Iraqi capital in six years. The visit aimed at supporting the cabinet of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al- Sudani, and dealing with suspended issues between Baghdad and the regional government in Erbil, sources told The New Arab. "This visit to Baghdad, given the significance of the meetings and dialogues, is particularly important as we speak with a national leadership who plays a major role in the political process," said al-Sudani. Barza...
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A 15-year-old Syrian boy was stabbed to death on Wednesday in Turkey's southwestern city of Antalya, the Turkish news website Bianet reported the following day. Ahmed Hamdan El Naif was in the Serik district of the city when he was attacked by three people on motorcycles. The suspects, who were all minors themselves and identified only by their initials RO, YY, and IA, were arrested and charged following the incident, according to Bianet. Turkey has been gripped by anti-Syrian race riots since Sunday, following reports that a Syrian man harassed and abused a child in the central Turkish city o...
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After US President Joe Biden's shockingly poor debate performance against former President Donald Trump last week, many in the Democratic Party are saying what was until recently unthinkable. Should Biden be replaced on the Democratic ticket? If so, by whom, and how would that work? Kamala HarrisAs vice president, Kamala Harris would be the default choice and logistically the most straightforward to take the reins from Biden should he decide to step down, a decision only he can make. "The easiest choice is Kamala Harris. She's already on the ticket, and she could spend the campaign funds—no ot...
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Keir Starmer on Friday will become Britain's new prime minister, as his centre-left opposition Labour party swept to a landslide general election victory, ending 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule. "The Labour Party has won this general election, and I have called Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory," a sombre-looking Rishi Sunak said after he was re-elected to his seat. "Today, power will change hands in a peaceful and orderly manner with goodwill on all sides," the Tory leader added, calling the results "sobering" and saying he took responsibility for the defeat. At a t...
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Veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn won his parliamentary seat, beating the candidate of the Labour Party he used to lead and promising to be a thorn in the side of Keir Starmer's incoming government after an acrimonious falling out with his successor. Corbyn resigned as Labour leader in 2019 after the party suffered its worst election defeat since 1935, and Starmer threw him out of the parliamentary party less than a year later, accusing him of undermining efforts to tackle antisemitism. Starmer is now set to succeed where Corbyn failed and become prime minister, having tacked towards the centr...
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Reform UK, the right-wing populist party led by Nigel Farage, looks set to emerge as a new force in British politics, winning its first seat in an election and squeezing the Conservative vote in the early results declared. Farage, a driving force behind Britain's decision to leave the European Union, only entered the election race last month, a move that caused shockwaves in a Conservative Party that was already far adrift of centre-left Labour. Lee Anderson, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform in March, won Ashfield in the East Midlands with 34 percent of the vote, pushing the Conse...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday ordered his spy chief to Qatar for talks with mediators on a Gaza war ceasefire that could see the release of captives still held in the war-torn enclave, sources said. Amidst new optimism over a possible breakthrough, Netanyahu called a meeting of his security cabinet for late Thursday to discuss new Hamas proposals sent through Qatari and Egyptian mediators, reports said. Dozens of hostages are believed to be still alive in Gaza while the war continues to take an increasing humanitarian toll in the devastated Palestinian territory, with the...
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Turkey defender Merih Demiral is to be banned for two games by UEFA following a gesture he made during his side's last-16 win against Austria on Tuesday and will miss Saturday's Euro 2024 quarter-final against Netherlands, German media reported. The 26-year-old centre back scored twice in a 2-1 win over the Austrians to send his side into the last eight for the first time since 2008, and celebrated by making a "wolf" gesture with his fingers. The gesture is linked to the "Grey Wolves", an ultra-nationalist youth branch of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which is an ally of President...
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Britain's Labour party, predicted to win Thursday's election, is promising a "decade of national renewal" and with a record landslide that gives the party a free reign to implement its programme. Here are its policies on key issues: Labour has vowed to follow the UK fiscal rules and ruled outincreasing income tax, National Insurance welfare contributions and VAT sales tax - although senior figures have not ruled out other tax rises - limiting its scope for boosting public spending. It hopes to plug the gap through improved growth, the elimination of the tax breaks for non-domiciled UK resident...
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