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in contrast to US President Donald Trump’s “Middle East Riviera” vision, according to a copy of the plan. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi said that the proposal had been accepted at ...

the Iran foreign ministry’s Director General for the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. “The common interests of the two countries and the sensitivity of regional conditions require avoiding ...

Trump triggered global outrage when he floated a plan for the United States to “take over” the Gaza Strip and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” while forcing its Palestinian ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock ... Feb. 28 at 2:59 p.m. Eastern. Aftershocks data is ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A convoy of vehicles carrying the bodies processed slowly through the streets, which were lined by thousands ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. After being displaced for most of the 16-month-long war, Palestinians returned home in northern Gaza facing ...

Alasari said none of the local Middle Eastern restaurants served exactly what they were looking for, however. So, the pair ultimately settled on Chipotle. While there, they concocted a plan to ...

Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was imploring the Palestinian leader to accept a deal he believed could have brought peace to the Middle East ... West Bank. The map Olmert had drawn up ...

American president Donald Trump challenged the post-Cold War international system by insisting that U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East take care of their own strategic interests instead of ...