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☆ Iranians vote for a new president under the shadow of conflict and economic woes
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Joseph Ataman | Frederik Pleitgen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The vote takes place amid deteriorating relations with the West, an advancing Iranian nuclear program, and an increasing risk of direct war with Israel. Iranian presidential candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf’s supporters gathered on the final day of campaigning to hear him speak, in Tehran, Iran on Thursday. Some polls have shown increasing popularity for Pezeshkian, with the rest of the conservatives splitting the vote. Khamenei urged Iranians to head to the polls and vote after he cast his ballot in the election on Friday morning. Saeed Jalili, ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator and Iranian presidential candidate, holds a rally in Tehran, Iran, on June 24.

Persons: Ebrahim Raisi, Hossein Amir, Ali Khamenei, Mahsa, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf’s, Joseph Ataman, Masoud Pezeshkian, Saeed Jalili, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Khamenei, Amini’s, Pezeshkian, Iran’s, Amirhossein Qazizadeh, Hashemi, Alireza Zakani, Qazizadeh, who’ve, ”, Arash Azizi, Saddam Hussein, Masoud, Morteza, “, Sina Toossi, Narges Mohammadi, ” Ahmad, Ghalibaf, ” Ghalibaf, ” Mariam, Raisi, ” Cheers, ” Mohammad, ” Parsi, Javad Zarif, Zarif, ” Khamenei, Trump, Biden Organizations: Iran CNN —, Foreign, Iran’s, West, CNN, Iran’s Guardian Council, Center for Middle East, Global, Quincy Institute, Experts, Islamic, Center for International Policy, Trump, Pezeshkian, Getty, Washington Locations: Tehran, Iran, Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Islamic Republic, Iranian, Berlin, Iraq, Washington, Washington ,, Shiroudi, ”

☆ Amid Perilous Times, Iran Holds Vote to Pick a President
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Farnaz Fassihi | Alissa J. Rubin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a testy campaign that featured strong attacks on the government by virtually all the candidates over the economy, internet restrictions and harsh enforcement of the hijab law on women, Iran was holding elections on Friday to pick a president. The vote comes at a perilous time for the country, with the incoming president facing a cascade of challenges, including discontent and divisions at home, an ailing economy and a volatile region that has taken Iran to the brink of war twice this year. With the race coming down to a three-way battle between two conservative candidates and a reformist, many analysts predict that none of them will achieve the necessary 50 percent of the votes, necessitating a runoff on July 5 between the reformist candidate and the leading conservative. That outcome may be avoided if one of the leading conservative candidates withdraws from the race, but in a bitter public feud, neither Gen. Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, a former commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and a pragmatic technocrat, nor Saeed Jalili, a hard-liner, has budged.

Persons: Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, Saeed Jalili Organizations: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Locations: Iran

☆ Iran votes for its new president amid economic strife, crackdowns and regional war
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Iranians will go to the polls against the backdrop of a battered economy, widespread popular discontent and harsh crackdowns on dissent. Iran is also dealing with high inflation, heavy Western sanctions, mounting tensions with the U.S., ramped-up Iranian nuclear enrichment and the Israel-Hamas war. On issues of foreign policy and war, the Iranian president wields some influence and is the country's public-facing messenger. But power and critical decision-making in Iran ultimately lies with the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and unelected institutions like the Revolutionary Guards. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks with media after casting his ballot during the Iranian Parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections at the Leadership office in Tehran, Iran, on March 1, 2024.

Persons: ATTA KENARE, Ebrahim Raisi, —, Iran's, Ali Vaez, Rafat, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Saeed Jalili, Masoud Pezeshkian, Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Alireza Zakani, Qalibaf, Jalili, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Masoud, Pezeshkian, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Pourmohammadi, Ayatollah Khamenei, Morteza Nikoubazl Organizations: Western, U.S, Guardian Council, Council, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Supreme National Security Council, Islamic Consultative Assembly, Revolutionary, Iran's Ministry of Intelligence, House, Revolutionary Guards, Iran's, Iranian Parliamentary Locations: Tehran, AFP Iran, Iran, Israel, Iranian, Iran's, Washington

☆ Israel-Hamas War in Gaza: Latest News and Updates
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | Adam Rasgon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Image Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, center, has threatened not to renew the provision, which makes it easier for Israeli banks to work with Palestinian banks. But many called the West Bank’s current economic predicament the most difficult yet. Before the war, Mahmoud Abu Issa, 53, was earning over $2,000 a month — an enviable salary in the impoverished West Bank — as a construction worker in Israel. If Palestinian banks want to offer shekel accounts, they must maintain links with Israeli banks and rely on them to process shekel transactions. Since 2017, Israel’s Finance Ministry has issued the waiver indemnifying the Israeli banks, according to Lilach Weissman, a spokeswoman for the ministry.

Persons: Bezalel Smotrich, Smotrich, Israel, Biden, Mr, Smotrich —, —, Menahem Kahana, Mahmoud Abu Issa, “, Abu Issa, Mohammad Rabee, Shadi Abu Afifa, ”, Abu Afifa, Jake Sullivan, Lilach Weissman, Akram Jerab, Eytan Fuld, Azzam, Shawwa, Rawan Sheikh Ahmad Organizations: West Bank, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian, Agence France, Mr, Palestinian Authority’s Finance Ministry, Israel’s Finance, Quds Bank Locations: Gaza, Bank, U.S, Israel, Hebron, ”, Palestinian, Palestine

☆ Israel Orders Evacuations as Strikes Pound Gaza City
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Top NewsIsrael ordered people in part of eastern Gaza City to evacuate on Thursday as Palestinian officials and residents reported heavy strikes and multiple casualties. Image A wounded Palestinian boy receiving treatment at a hospital in Gaza City on Thursday. Shajaiye, one of Gaza City’s largest neighborhoods, is home to a battalion that is considered one of the strongest in Hamas’s military wing. In December, nine Israeli soldiers were killed there on what the Israeli military reported was one of the deadliest days of the war for its forces. In recent months, some residents had returned to Shajaiye as Israeli forces turned their focus to southern Gaza.

Persons: Kan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Dawoud Abu Alkas, Mohammed Qraiqea, ”, Ghazi Hamad, Shajaiye, Mohammad al, Bahrawi, “, God’s, Myra Noveck Organizations: News Israel, Civil Defense, ., Human Rights Monitor, Hamas, Ahli Arab Hospital Locations: Gaza City, Gaza, Israel, Shajaiye, Mohammad, Ahli, Jerusalem

☆ ‘Miss AI’ beauty pageant and the complicated quest for the ‘perfect’ woman
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

None of these women are real — everything about them, even the emotion that flickers across their faces, is generated by artificial intelligence (AI), for the world’s first ever AI beauty pageant. Fanvue World AI Creator AwardsEach of the contestants has a unique and distinctive personality, as well as face. But, echoing the reality of most modern Miss USA beauty pageant winners since the competition’s inception in 1921, most are White, thin and have long hair and symmetrical features, detailed Hilary Levey Friedman — a sociologist and author of “Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America” — in a phone interview. Fanvue World AI Creator AwardsCreators of these AI models add that the technology itself is not necessarily the problem. Fanvue World AI Creator Awards“Influencers are just behind a screen,” Mohammad Talha Saray, one of Seren Ay’s creators, said.

Persons: ” Dr Kerry McInerney, Lalina, Turkey’s, Kemal Ataturk, Anne Kerdi, Zara Shatavari, Hilary Levey Friedman, Aiyana, McInerney, “ They’re, they’re, they’re compling, ” Aiyla Lou, “ DALL, Furkan Sahin, Seren, ”, Sally, Ann Fawcett, “ there’s, “, ” Fawcett, Asena, Sahin, Sofía, ” Eliza Khan, Levey Friedman, “ There’s, Merriam, Novales, Aitana, Lil Miquela, Calvin Klein, ” Mohammad Talha Saray, there’s, Anne Kerdi’s, Sébastien Keranvran, Anne, ” Anne Kerdi, Anne goodnight, Fanvue, it’s Organizations: CNN, Leverhulme Centre, Intelligence, University of Cambridge, Pageant, America ”, Miss, Prada Locations: French, Kyoto, Japan, Brittany, France, Miss USA, America, Brazil, Morocco

☆ Afghanistan enjoys historic run to T20 World Cup semifinals: ‘Cricket is the only source of happiness back home’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Ben Morse | Masoud Popalzai | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Afghanistan fans celebrate the team's win against Bangladesh at the T20 World Cup. Gurbaz is the leading run scorer at the T20 World Cup. “That Afghanistan team got into the semis for the first time,” the 25-year-old told the International Cricket Council (ICC) website. It’s an unbelievable feeling.”Khan (middle) celebrates the dismissal of India's Rishabh Pant at the T20 World Cup. And in a statement posted online, the Afghanistan Cricket Board expressed its “disappointment” towards Australia’s decision and “reiterates its stance on neutral and politics-free cricket across the globe.”

Persons: – couldn’t, Ashraf Ghani, Mullah Amir Muttaqi, Mullah Khairullah Khairkhah, Rashid Khan, ” Khan, cramp, Jonathan Trott, Ricardo Mazalan, Raees Ahmadzai, Khan –, Mohammad Nabi, Hashmatullah, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Ramon Espinosa, Trott, Khan, Nabi, Noor Ahmad –, bamboozled, Gurbaz, “, ”, India's Rishabh Pant, Randy Brooks, Barney Ronay, Suhail Shaheen, ” Shaheen Organizations: CNN, Pakistan, Afghanistan Cricket Board, Bangladesh, AFP, Getty, Australia, Afghan national cricket team, International Cricket Council, ICC, Afghanistan, United, Guardian, ACB, FIFA, International Olympic Committee Locations: Australia, Afghanistan, Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Bangladesh, “, AFP, Taliban, United States, Doha

The allegations provide a window into the scale and force of this Israeli operation to free hostages taken during the attack on Israel last October. The UN human rights office (OHCHR) warned that Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups may have committed war crimes through their actions. CNNMohammad told CNN that before the Israeli forces withdrew, they threatened to shoot his relatives, after which he heard gunshots. “I called the ambulance, but they said they cannot come because the area is dangerous,” Mohammad told CNN. Palestinians inspect the damage a day after Israeli forces launched an operation to rescue four hostages, in Nuseirat, central Gaza, on June 9.

Persons: fleck, Abdel Miqdad shudders, Yamen, “, ”, Jeremy Laurence, ” Israel, ‘, Mohammad, –, ” Mohammad, Rasha, ” Rasha Abdel Miqdad, Zain, Abdul Raouf, Ahmad, ” Ahmad, CNN Mohammad, ’ ” Mohammad, Richard Weir, Trevor Ball, Weir, Eyad Baba, clamor, Médecins, Karin Huster, Maryame El Abbassi, Mumen, Khan Younis, ” Mumen Organizations: CNN, ” CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Paratroopers Reconnaissance Battalion, Health, UN, IDF, Flames, Artillery, “, IMI, Military Industries, Human Rights Watch, US Army, Awda, Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Nasser Hospital, Getty, Humanitarian Affairs Locations: Gaza, Israel, Rafah, Nuseirat, ‘, Al, Aqsa, AFP, Khan

Doctors told CNN they are being forced to turn away parents begging for baby milk, unable to even triage young patients with chronic illnesses compounded by severe hunger. Dozens of other Gazans crowd together to access water as aid workers nearby distribute thick, steaming red soup from large saucepans. It is God’s decision, but it is caused by people,” her father, Ahmed Maqat, told CNN, after she died on Saturday. But health workers told CNN there are few alternatives, with shortages of lactose free or soya milk for infants. Children line up for food aid in Jabalya refugee camp, the northern Gaza, on June 13.

Persons: CNN — Younis, Ghanima Juma’a, Khan Younis, “, Israel ramped, ”, Doctors, Israel, Younis, Hassan Kalash, CNN Israel, General António Guterres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Court’s, Omar Al Qatta, Israel —, Razan, Um Razan Mheitem, Kamal Adwan, Amal, Samaher, Ahmed Maqat, Maqat, Deir Al Balah, Ashraf Amra, Ahmed Kahlot, OCHA, Omar Al, Ismail Madi, Ahmad, Joe Biden … Organizations: CNN, Nasser Hospital, UN, Integrated, Palestine, UNRWA, Programme, Getty, Humanitarian Affairs, Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Kamal, Kamal Adwan Hospital, Ministry of Health Locations: Nasser, Gaza, Khan, Rafah, Israel, Asda’a —, Gaza’s, Israeli, Jabalya, AFP, Al, Aqsa, Deir Al, Anadolu, soya

☆ Why Hezbollah is threatening this tiny European country
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

An island in the Eastern Mediterranean located on a geopolitical fault line between the Middle East and southern Europe, Cyprus is geographically much closer to the conflicts in the Middle East than it is to European power centers. The island has previously been caught in the crossfire of regional conflicts, a reminder of its proximity to the volatile Middle East. It would mean that an EU country is, for the first time, directly involved in an expanded Gaza war. “It is normal for both Israel and Hezbollah to have military plans in place for handling a potential escalation. “The US also does not want to find itself in another Middle East quagmire, especially with presidential elections looming.”

Persons: Hassan Nasrallah, ”, Nikos Christodoulides, Israel, Constantinos Kombos, Eli Cohen, Stavros Ioannides, PIO, Christodoulides, “, Yiannis Kourtoglou, ” Mohammad Ali Shabani, Amwaj.media, ” Lina Khatib, ” Khatib, Biden Organizations: CNN, Lebanese, Union, Israel, The, NATO, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, Cypriot, Reuters, Spanish, European Union, North Africa, Chatham House Locations: Cyprus, Israel, “ Cyprus, Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, East, Europe, European, Delaware, Republic of Cyprus, Turkish, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, The Republic of Cyprus, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Larnaca, ”, EU, UAE, Russian, Syria, London, Haifa, “

☆ Israel-Hamas war: Why Hezbollah is threatening Cyprus
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

While experts say war between Israel and Hezbollah remains unlikely, the very mention of Cyprus adds a new dimension to the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. Stavros Ioannides/PIO/ReutersWhat has Cyprus’ role been in the Gaza war? Cyprus has been keen to dispel any suggestions that it is implicated in the Gaza war, noting its humanitarian efforts that helped bring some aid into Gaza. It would mean that an EU country is, for the first time, directly involved in an expanded Gaza war. “The US also does not want to find itself in another Middle East quagmire, especially with presidential elections looming.”

Persons: Hassan Nasrallah, ”, Nikos Christodoulides, ” Peter Stano, Abdallah Bou Habib, Constantinos Kombos, Lebanon’s, Israel, “, Eli Cohen, Stavros Ioannides, PIO, Christodoulides, Yiannis Kourtoglou, ” Mohammad Ali Shabani, Amwaj.media, ” Lina Khatib, ” Khatib, Biden Organizations: CNN, Lebanese, European Union, EU, United Nations, Lebanon’s, Cypriot, Israel, The, NATO, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, Reuters, Spanish, North Africa, Chatham House Locations: Cyprus, Israel, “ Cyprus, Iran, Lebanon, EU, Greece, Gaza, East, Europe, European, Delaware, Republic of Cyprus, Turkish, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Turkey, The Republic of Cyprus, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Larnaca, ”, UAE, Russian, Syria, London, Haifa, “

It was a glimmer of familial normality in Gaza for a nine-year-old and her younger sibling that ended in tragedy. Hanan is one of thousands of critically ill patients waiting for medical evacuation from Gaza but unable to leave following the closure of the Rafah crossing to Egypt in early May. The only hope for many is to be evacuated through the Rafah crossing into Egypt and get treatment in neighboring countries. Since May 7, not one single case has been able to leave through Rafah, creating a backlog of desperation and severe cases. “The Rafah crossing should be reopened as quickly as possible,” Peeperkorn says, “or there should be an alternative crossing or mechanism actually applied because we cannot leave these critical patients.

Persons: CNN — Hanan Aqel, ” Hanan, Hanan, Mahmoud Mahane, Hanan Aqel, handout Hanan, Mohammad Al, ”, “, Rik Peeperkorn, Peeperkorn, ” Peeperkorn, European Union –, Kholoud, Malak Organizations: CNN, Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Health, West Bank, European Union, Nasser Locations: Gaza, Al, Aqsa, Rafah, Egypt, Israel, Jerusalem, Qatar, Jordan, UAE, Turkey, COGAT, Palestinian Territories

Eyewitnesses also said that they saw Israeli forces in disguise – dressed as Hamas fighters or civilians. The Israeli military denied using civilian vehicles, but declined to say whether the officers conducting the rescue were disguised as militants or dressed as Palestinian civilians. The Israeli military had previously used civilian clothing as a tactic in its operations. But soon after the mission got underway, Israeli soldiers and militants began to exchange fire, according to eyewitness accounts and statements from the Israeli military. A senior Biden administration official tells CNN that Israeli forces did not use an aid truck in the operation.

Persons: Mercedes, –, “, ” Khalil Al Tirawi, Mercedes van, — Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv, Noa Argamani’s, Adm, Daniel Hagari, ”, Argamani, Arnon Zamora, Al Tirawi, Abdullah Jouda, ” Jouda, ” Hagari, Fadi Thabet, Trevor Ball, Richard Weir, ” Al Tirawi, Nidal Abdo, Zamora, Yaron Finkelman, that’s, Jake Sullivan, CNN’s Dana, ” Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Hagari, Alex Marquardt Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Nova, Israeli Security Agency, IDF, ” CNN, National Police, Hamas ’, Al, CNN CNN, Mercedes, Human Rights Watch, Biden, Southern Command, Union, Sheba Medical, Ichilov Locations: Nuseirat, Gaza, Israeli, Jabalia, Al Jazeera, Argamani, United States, Israel, U.S, “ State, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv

☆ Middle East Crisis U.S. Pushes for Cease-Fire Vote at U.N. Security Council
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Mike Ives | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Ms. Abu Amr finally arrived home with her son hours later, shocked that she was still alive. To rescue the hostages, Israeli troops entered two residential buildings in which they were being held, according to Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesman. The medical facility — already packed before the Israeli rescue mission in nearby Nuseirat — overflowed, said Abdelkarim al-Harazin, 28, a physician working there. Gathering her children, she sprinted to the nearby Al-Awda medical center in a desperate search for safety. Gazans there were cursing not just Israel, but Hamas as well, he said, blaming them for bringing this disaster upon them.

Persons: Gazans, Bayan Abu Amr, Mohammad, ”, Abu Amr, Daniel Hagari, Admiral Hagari, Khalil Daqran, Abdelkarim, Aqsa, Javed Ali, Diana Abu Shaban, Saeed, “, Ms, Abu Shaban, Abd Al, Rahman Basem al, Masri, he’d, ” Mr Organizations: Hamas, “, Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, International Medical Corps Locations: Nuseirat, Gaza, Al, Aqsa, Deir al, Deir, Israel

☆ T20 World Cup: Pakistan suffer thrilling six-run defeat to rivals India to leave hopes in jeopardy
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Megan Wellens | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 09: Virat Kohli and Mohammed Siraj of India celebrates following the team's victory in the ICC Men's T20 Cricket World Cup West Indies & USA 2024 match between India and Pakistan at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium on June 09, 2024 in New York, New York. (Photo by Alex Davidson-ICC/ICC via Getty Images)India dealt a cruel blow to rivals Pakistan's T20 World Cup hopes with a thrilling six-run victory in New York. However, the Pakistan batting attack fell apart under the pressure and from 72-2 were reduced to 88-5 themselves, unable to find big boundaries in the final overs to seal a big win. In Group A, India now sit top of the table, with USA in second. Pakistan are now in fourth and are yet to pick up a win.

Persons: Virat Kohli, Mohammed Siraj, Alex Davidson, Jasprit, Pandya, Bumrah, Mohammad Rizwan, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Amir, Babar Azam, Suryakumar Yadav, Usman Khan Organizations: NEW, ICC, West Indies, Nassau County International Cricket, Getty Images, Pakistan, USA Locations: India, Pakistan, New York , New York, New York

☆ Iran election: Mostly hardline candidates approved for next presidential vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The Iranian election committee has approved a slate of mostly hardline candidates to run in the presidential election on June 28, following the helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials last month. Out of 80 initial candidates, only six individuals were approved in a vetting process by Iran’s Guardian Council, a powerful 12-member body charged with overseeing elections and legislation. The slate includes hardline parliament speaker and former Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Saeed Jalili, ex-chief nuclear negotiator and former head of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran’s top security body. Competition is expected to be fierce between Qalibaf and Jalili, both of whom backed Raisi in the 2021 presidential election. The Guardian Council has, however, also approved Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist lawmaker who served as parliament deputy speaker from 2016 to 2020.

Persons: Ebrahim Raisi, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Saeed Jalili, ”, Sina Toossi, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Alireza Zakani, Mostafa Pour Mohammad, Masoud, Pezeshkian, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ali Larijani, growingly restive Organizations: CNN, Iran’s Guardian Council, Revolutionary, Supreme National Security Council, Center for International, Guardian Council Locations: Iranian, Iran

A day after the Israeli military rescued four hostages held by Hamas militants in Nuseirat, Gazans described an intense bombardment during the raid, followed by chaos in the streets from an operation that killed and wounded scores of Palestinians. Bayan Abu Amr, 32, was carrying her 18-month-old son Mohammad on the edge of Nuseirat’s main marketplace on Saturday when she was surrounded by the heavy booms of strikes from aircraft, which Israel’s military said targeted militants in an effort to ensure the safe extraction of the hostages and special forces. “People were rushing like the day of judgment; I did not know where to run,” said Ms. Abu Amr, who was on her way to pay a condolence call to her uncle’s family after two of his sons had died. “Kids were screaming, women were falling down while running.”Along with other Gazans, she managed to clamber onto a passing pickup truck that was trying to ferry people safely out amid the strikes, she recalled. One girl was separated from her mother in the confusion, while an old man lost his grip and fell off the truck onto the ground, she said.

Persons: Gazans, Bayan Abu Amr, Mohammad, ”, Abu Amr Organizations: Hamas, “ Locations: Nuseirat

☆ Iran OKs 6 candidates for presidential race, but again blocks Ahmadinejad
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

He withdrew from the 2017 presidential campaign to support Raisi in his first failed presidential bid. Raisi won the 2021 election, which had the lowest turnout ever for a presidential vote in Iran, after every major opponent found themselves disqualified. Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Raisi's vice president, ran in the 2021 presidential elections and came in last with just under 1 million votes. Raisi, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and others were killed in the May 19 helicopter crash in the far northwest of Iran. Raisi was the second Iranian president to die in office.

Persons: Ebrahim Raisi, Hossein Amirabdollahian, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khamenei, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Qalibaf, Raisi, Mahsa, Saeed Jalili, Alireza Zakani, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Amirhossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Masoud Pezeshkian, Ahmadinejad, Ali Larijani, Hassan Rouhani, Larinjani, Abdolnasser Hemmati, Eshaq Jahangiri, Mohammad Ali Rajai Organizations: Iran's, firebrand, Raisi, Guardian Council, U.S, paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Guard, Guardian, Former Iranian Central Bank, Iranian Locations: Qom, Iran, Israel, Tehran, Raisi, Russia, Ukraine, Red, Gaza

☆ T20 Cricket World Cup: Pakistan succumbs to heartbreaking defeat against archrival India
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Pakistan’s heartbreaking Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup continued as it succumbed to a dramatic six-run defeat against archrival India on Sunday following its shock loss to the USA earlier in the week. Often described as one of the greatest sporting grudge matches in the world, an India-Pakistan cricket match is always bound up in the geopolitical faultlines that separate the two nations. India narrowly defeated Pakistan. But the game turned on its head with six overs left when Jasprit Bumrah bowled Rizwan and took the momentum away from Pakistan. It set up a grandstand finish with Pakistan needing 18 runs off six balls in the last over and it ultimately fell just short.

Persons: CNN —, Stefan Jeremiah, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rohit heaved, Kohli, Rohit, Haris Rauf, Shaheen Afridi, India’s, Robert Cianflone, Rishabh Pant, Mohammad Rizwan, Jasprit Bumrah, Rizwan Organizations: CNN, archrival India, Pakistan, Nassau County International, Nassau Locations: India, Pakistan, New York

☆ USA upsets Pakistan in T20 Cricket World Cup with stunning super over win
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Joseph Bentley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In one of the biggest shocks in cricket history, the USA defeated Pakistan in the T20 Cricket World Cup in Dallas, Texas. AdvertisementThe U.S. now stand a strong chance of qualifying for the Super 8 round (another round-robin stage before the semi-finals). The scores were level after 20 overs, meaning the game was decided by a super over — a single-over shootout where the highest-scoring team are victorious. Needing 19 to win, Pakistan laboured to just 13, with Saurabh Netravalkar bowling well in a pressured situation for the USA. This defeat leaves Pakistan struggling to qualify for the Super 8 stage, with a win against India, the best T20 team in the world, likely to be needed for them to progress.

Persons: Babar Azam, Shadab Khan, Monank Patel, Andries Gous, Gous, Haris Rauf, Aaron Jones, Mohammad Amir, Jones, Saurabh, ANDREW CABALLERO, REYNOLDS Organizations: USA, Pakistan, Cricket, Pakistan wobbled, Canada, India, Ireland, Providence, Getty Locations: Dallas , Texas, Pakistan, USA, Indies, Caribbean, Uganda, Guyana

Saeed Abiyar, an adviser to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria, died in the attack, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Israel fired back, a US official told CNN, targeting a major Iranian military airbase near the city of Isfahan. Iran has deployed military advisers to Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since civil war broke out there in 2011. “The era of strategic patience is over,” said Mohammad Jamshidi, deputy chief of staff to the Iranian president. Israel contested this, claiming the target was an Iranian military headquarters.

Persons: Saeed Abiyar, SANA, Israel, Bashar al, Assad, ”, Mohammad Jamshidi, Monday’s, Trita, Ebrahim Raisi, Hossein Amir, “, ” Parsi, Joe Biden, Parsi Organizations: CNN, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Islamic, Washington DC, Quincy Institute, Foreign Locations: Syrian, Aleppo, Israel, Iran, Syria, Damascus, Lebanon, Isfahan, Gaza, Washington, Iranian, Tehran

☆ Israeli forces launch new ground and air assault on central Gaza, killing at least 15 Palestinians
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Mohammad Al Sawalhi | Kareem Khadder | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The Israeli military launched a new ground and air assault in central Gaza on Tuesday, as its forces ramp up attacks amid a deepening humanitarian crisis. Witnesses say civilians started to leave the Bureij area – heading towards the coast - after military activity there intensified. Palestinians mourn relatives killed in an Israeli bombardment in the Bureij area of central Gaza on June 4, 2024. Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza on October 7 after the militant group Hamas, which governs Gaza, killed at least 1,200 people and abducted more than 250 others. Israeli attacks in Gaza have since killed at least 36,550 Palestinians and injured another 82,959 people, according to the Ministry of Health there.

Persons: Al Bureij, Bashar Taleb Organizations: CNN, IDF, Health, Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, World Health Organization, Getty, Hamas, Ministry of Health Locations: Gaza, Al Aqsa, Al, Bureij, Israel

☆ Middle East Crisis Palestinians Returning to Jabaliya Find Wide Devastation
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Raja Abdulrahim | Lauren Leatherby | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

“The destruction is indescribable,” said Mohammad Awais, who returned with his family to their home in Jabaliya on Friday. “Even the ambulances can’t drive through them to transport the injured and martyrs,” he said of the streets in Jabaliya. April 17 Jabaliya market Area of image GAZA STRIP May 24 Jabaliya market April 17 Jabaliya market Area of image GAZA STRIP May 24 Jabaliya marketSome buildings had already been destroyed before the latest Israeli offensive in the area, according to imagery from April. Having survived the assault during the early months of the war, many people in Jabaliya thought they were safe from another Israeli offensive. Credit... Omar Al-Qattaa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Image Resting in the rubble in Jabaliya on Friday after Israeli forces withdrew from the area.

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Rafah, Gaza and Jerusalem CNN —Dozens of people were killed on Sunday after a fire broke out following an Israeli airstrike on a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza. “Several civilians are still trapped inside the camp, which was attacked without warning,” a Palestinian man filming the fire said. Palestinians mourn over the bodies of relatives killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, the Gaza Strip on Monday. It was among the deadliest strikes by the Israeli military on Gaza’s southernmost city since Israel began its operation there on May 7. Qatar, another key mediator, said Israel’s strike could “hinder” ongoing negotiations, and called the attack a “serious violation of international law.”Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp housing internally displaced people in Rafah, Gaza on Monday.

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☆ The Bitter Bargain that India’s 200 Million Muslims Face - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-26 | by ( Mohammad Ali | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I don’t wear a skullcap, and in public I avoid wearing the loosefitting Pathani kurta and peppering my speech with Urdu words, all of which are identity markers for Indian Muslims. For 10 years, Mr. Modi’s Hindu-chauvinist government has vilified the nation’s 200 million Muslims as dangerous undesirables. As offensive as that was, it is sadly familiar to Indian Muslims like me who — after a decade of denigration, violence and murder — live in daily fear of being identified and attacked, forcing us into self-denial to protect ourselves. Islam came here around 1,300 years ago, and Indian Muslims descend from natives of this land who converted to Islam centuries ago. Many Indian Muslims fought against British colonization, and millions rejected the 1947 partition of the country into a predominantly Hindu India and a mostly Muslim Pakistan.

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