Middle East Experience

In Executive Order 2022-06D, called “Defining and Combating Antisemitism”, Governor DeWine encouraged “all federal and local governments and governmental agencies and entities to adopt it as well.”
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Ohio State adopts the IHRA definition of antisemitism

Opinion: The ghostly image of the crucified man on the Shroud has shaped how we depict Jesus.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Shroud of Turin: Suffering and sacrifice point to the victory of Easter

The Garangao tradition is regarded as an opportunity to spread love, happiness and affection amongst adults and children..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: What's in the bag?: a peak into Garangao

With none of the candidates passing the required 50 percent mark, the top 2 candidates, De facto President Anatoly Bibilov and Alan Gagloyev, will face off in a runoff round.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: South Ossetia holds presidential elections, despite Georgian condemnation

Wooden vessel launched from Sabratha, a major departure point for Europe, says UN migration agency..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Boat capsizes off Libya, leaving 35 people dead or presumed dead

Retired police officer John Murray says he will not stop..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Yvonne Fletcher: Friend vows to bring private prosecution

number of Qatari officials have condemned the apartheid state's attacks in Jerusalem on Friday..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: #AlAqsaUnderAttack tops Qatar social media

A series of strikes Sunday in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv in the north-east of the war-scarred country left at least five dead and 13 injured, a regional health official told AFP.Maksym Khaustov, the head of the Kharkiv region’s health department confirmed the deaths following a series of strikes that AFP journalists on the scene said had ignited fires throughout the city and tore roofs from buildings hit in the attacks.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.AFP heard two incoming salvos and witnessed five fires spread over residential areas in central Kharkiv. Fire engines raced in every direction across the city center and deployed ladders to reach smoldering apartments on the top floor. In the moments after the strikes, there was a sense of panic in the street, with pedestrians fleeing and cars speeding from the scene. At one site, AFP saw a blood-stained coat next to a pool of fresh blood on the ground. A local reported hearing between six and eight missiles strike.The roofs of some homes had been torn off by the force of the blasts, showering debris onto the road below.Since pulling back from its northern offensive to capture the capital of Kyiv, the Kremlin has scaled up attacks on Ukraine’s eastern flank, including Kharkiv just 21 kilometers (13 miles) from the Russian border.On Friday, shelling of residential areas of the city killed 10 people. On Saturday, a strike claimed two more lives.Read more:EU can cut Russian energy dependence sooner than previously estimated: DraghiRussia says NATO activity in the Arctic worrying, warns of ‘unintended incidents’Russian oligarch Deripaska’s yacht arrives in Turkish waters
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Strikes kill five in east Ukraine city of Kharkiv: Health official

The death toll from Pakistani military air strikes in the eastern Afghanistan provinces of Khost and Kunar has risen to at least 47, officials said on Sunday.“Forty-one civilians, mainly women and children, were killed and 22 others were wounded in air strikes by Pakistani forces near the Durand line in Khost province,” Shabir Ahmad Osmani, director of information and culture in Khost told AFP about the strikes that took place on Saturday.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Two other officials confirmed the death toll in Khost, while an Afghan official said on Saturday six people were killed in Kunar province.The Pakistani military has so far not offered any comment on the strikes, but on Sunday the foreign ministry in Islamabad urged the Taliban authorities in Kabul to take “stern actions” against militants launching attacks against Pakistan from Afghan soil.Border tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have risen since the Taliban seized power last year, with Islamabad claimingmilitant groups are carrying out regular attacks from Afghan soil.The Taliban deny harboring Pakistani militants, but are also infuriated by a fence Islamabad is erecting along their 2,700-kilometre (1,600-mile) border.Read more: Pakistan calls for action against militants on Afghan soil
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Afghanistan death toll in ‘Pakistan strikes’ rises to at least 47: Officials

Iran’s cultivation of the Houthis over the years of war in Yemen has armed them with missiles and drones, endangering Washington’s partners and Tehran’s rivals, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Yemen’s Houthis Went From Ragtag Militia to Force Threatening Gulf Powers