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Middle East still offers large scale construction opportunities
World Construction Network
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August 18, 2025
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) projects market has taken a sharp hit in the first five months of 2025, registering a 39% decline in contract awards compared to the same period last year. This contraction has been led by a dramatic slowdown in...
Türkiye rises as the gatekeeper against Israeli expansion
Sabah
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August 18, 2025
Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has operated under a strategic doctrine that treats geography, sovereignty and international norms as negotiable whenever “security” is invoked. Zionism’s expansionist impulse, historically constrained by...
Iraq, US hold talks on oil dispute in Kurdish region
Yeni Safak
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August 18, 2025
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein met late Sunday with US Chargé d’Affaires Steven Fagin in Baghdad to discuss the ongoing dispute over oil in the country’s northern Kurdish region, the Foreign Ministry said. According to a ministry statement,...
Egypt’s PM heads to Japan for TICAD 9 Africa development summit
Daily News Egypt
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August 18, 2025
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly left for Japan on Monday to attend the ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9), where his Japanese counterpart, Shigeru Ishiba, is expected to propose a new economic...
Egypt steps up Gaza aid efforts as war escalates, Israel faces mounting criticism
Daily News Egypt
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August 18, 2025
Egypt intensified its humanitarian role toward the Gaza Strip on Monday, as Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty visited the Rafah border crossing with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa and Egyptian Social Solidarity Minister Maya Morsi. The...
Iranian technicians overhaul engine of BK 117 helicopter
Press TV
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Iran says its local technicians have managed to carry out a complete overhaul of the engine of the BK 117 helicopter amid sanctions that restrict the country’s access to aviation parts and technologies. Iran’s civil aviation chief Hossein...
Israeli controls choke Gaza relief at Egypt border, say aid workers
Tracy Press - California
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At the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, hundreds of aid trucks sat unmoving in the Egyptian desert, stuck for days with only a handful allowed through by Israel to relieve the humanitarian disaster across the border. After nearly two years of...
Ship carrying 6,600 tons of wheat arrives at Tartus Port on Syria’s Mediterranean coast
Enab Baladi
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August 18, 2025
A ship loaded with imported soft wheat arrived at Tartus Port (on Syria’s Mediterranean coast) on Sunday, August 17. Mazen Alloush, Director of Relations at the General Authority of Land and Sea Ports, told Enab Baladi that unloading operations...
Syria's Wheat Crisis: Drought And Shortage Challenge New Leadership
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Syria faces a potential food crisis after the worst drought in 36 years slashed wheat production by around 40 per cent, squeezing the country's cash-strapped government, which has been unable to secure large-scale...
Iranian mobile operator warns of daily internet blackouts without tariff hike
Iran International
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August 18, 2025
“If tariffs are not adjusted, operators will not be able to invest, and improving internet quality will be impossible,” Alireza Rafiei said on Monday. In the near future, he said, Iranians should expect scheduled internet outages just like the...
Türk Telekom gets ready for 5G launch
RCR Wireless News
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August 18, 2025
In sum – what to know: Record mobile gains – Revenue rose 13.2% year-on-year to TL 50.4 billion, with 678,000 net mobile additions and 2.5 million postpaid net adds in 12 months. 5G readiness – Türk Telekom’s 496,000 km fiber backbone now covers...
Israel to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza City, Putin courts Trump, Bolivia’s right-wing gains, U.S. stops medical treatment for Gaza’s children
Drop Site
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August 18, 2025
Since dawn, Israeli forces have killed at least 17 people in Gaza, with the Ministry of Health reporting five more deaths from starvation. Israel announces plans to forcibly displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza southwards as part...
Israelis in the West Bank
The Progressive magazine - Wisconsin
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August 18, 2025
Haifa is one of Israel’s largest cities, but as I walk down its streets on a late night in March, the typically bustling industrial area, home to one of the Mediterranean’s major seaports, is almost unnaturally still. At 4 a.m., the low hum from...
Israeli Health Professionals Offering Trainings to Physicians Drawn from Addis Ababa
Ethiopian News Agency
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Addis Ababa, August 18, 2025 (ENA)—Israeli medical professionals are offering advanced training on comprehensive anesthesiology and life-supporting techniques to health professionals drawn from eight hospitals in Addis Ababa. One-week training is...
ACI Asia-Pacific and Middle East urges future-ready airports as DGCA conference backs recommendations
International Airport Review
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August 18, 2025
ACI APAC & MID secured strong support at the DGCA conference in Japan, urging governments to adopt policies on safety, climate resilience, affordability, and security. Airports Council International Asia-Pacific & Middle East (ACI APAC & MID),...
Turkish Navy’s TCG Istanbul Frigate Achieves First Live Target Kill With Hisar-D RF Air Defense System
Defense News Security News Army Recognition
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On August 15, 2025, the Turkish Navy successfully conducted a live-fire test of the indigenously developed Hisar-D RF air defense missile, launched from the national vertical launch system MIDLAS aboard the TCG Istanbul frigate. The test, carried...
Syria: Food crisis concerns amid low wheat production, drought
The New Arab
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August 18, 2025
More than 2.5 million tons of wheat are needed to be imported in order to alleviate a hunger crisis in Syria [Getty/file photo] Syria faces a potential food crisis after the worst drought in 36 years slashed wheat production by around 40 percent,...
Iraqi fintech Qi Card, Turkish Airlines launch Mastercard debit card
Khaleej Times
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Qi Card, Iraq’s leading digital payments provider, and Turkish Airlines, one of the world’s largest airlines, have signed a landmark partnership in Istanbul to launch a new co-branded Mastercard debit card for Iraqis. The partnership will benefit...
More Western Activists Are Traveling to Palestine — and Israel Is Deporting Them
Truthout
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August 18, 2025
Part of the Series Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! As settler violence continues to escalate in Palestine, including the killing of activist and documentary filmmaker Awdah Hathaleen...
17th Egyptian Humanitarian Convoy Heads to Gaza
Egyptian Streets
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August 18, 2025
Egypt dispatched its 17th humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza in the early hours of Monday, 18 August, continuing efforts to deliver food and medical supplies to Palestinians facing severe shortages under Israel’s blockade. The convoy, which crossed...