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  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Telegraph Media Group Ltd
    UK to probe Abu Dhabi-backed bid for Telegraph group

    Regulators to investigate RedBird IMI’s debt for equity deal, but not its repayment of bank loans owed by the Barclay family

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  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    Hamas releases eight more hostages amid push to extend fragile truce

    Temporary ceasefire to expire on Friday unless agreement is reached between Israel and Palestinian militant group

    Mia Schem, 21, reunites with her mother and brother following her release after being held hostage by the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Hatzerim military base in Israel
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Turkey
    US ‘profoundly’ worried over Turkey’s financial links to Hamas

    Treasury says country has long played ‘prominent role’ in allowing Palestinian militant group to access funds

  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
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  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
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    The Palestinian teenagers suddenly freed from jail in Hamas hostage deal

    West Bank youths are routinely taken from their beds, beaten and imprisoned. Throwing stones is the most common charge

    Palestinians released from an Israeli military prison on November 26 2023 in the West Bank
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Climate change
    UAE to launch $30bn investment fund at COP28

    UN climate summit host seeks to bolster credentials via initiative with BlackRock, TPG and Brookfield

    COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber, right, opened the summit with UN top climate official Simon Stiell in Dubai on Thursday
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Ricardo Hausmann
    How to tackle Lebanon’s economic crisis

    The situation is dire but there is a blueprint for managing the country’s currency, banks and public debt issues

    A scooter rider passes a vandalised, shuttered Bank of Beirut bank branch in Beirut
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    COP28
    UAE pledges to allow assembly and expression to be tested by COP28

    Restrictive Gulf laws prohibiting criticism of the state and its leaders could face challenge from human rights protesters

    People walk through Al Wasl Dome at Expo City ahead of the COP28
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Iran nuclear deal
    Do not ignore Iran’s nuclear ambitions, warns UN atomic agency

    Rafael Grossi says the world should not lose sight of the risks because attention has switched to war between Israel and Hamas

    Rafael Mariano Grossi, President of the International Atomic Energy Agency
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
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    Nato says don’t underestimate Russia

    Nato's secretary-general says Russia has been stockpiling missiles for a winter attack on Ukraine

  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    Far-right ministers press Netanyahu as Hamas releases 16 hostages

    Calls to spurn broader hostage-for-prisoner swap come as mediators work to extend temporary truce

    A man waves an Israeli flag on Wednesday in front of a vehicle said to be carrying hostages released from Gaza by Hamas
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    COP28
    COP28 president denies using UN climate summit to pitch oil deals

    UAE’s Sultan al-Jaber says documents showing talking points are ‘false’ but acknowledges being asked to ‘engage’

    Sultan al-Jaber
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    Robert Shrimsley
    Spare us the sanctimony on fit and proper media owners

    The UAE-Telegraph deal should probably be blocked but the roll call of UK press barons is hardly one to shout about

    Illustration of hands guiding a person to read a newspaper.
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    News in-depthEnergean Oil & Gas Plc
    How one gas producer kept Israel’s lights on

    London-listed Energean had to supply 60% of the Jewish state’s demand in early stages of war against Hamas

    Energean chief executive Mathios Rigas
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Gaza’s children fight to survive amid wreckage of Israel-Hamas war

    Besieged enclave has become a ‘graveyard’ for the young Palestinians who make up almost half its population

    A man carries an injured child following Israeli air strikes in Rafah town
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Heathrow
    Saudi PIF and Ardian to buy 25% stake in Heathrow airport for £2.4bn

    Ferrovial selling holdings after 17 years

    Heathrow airport arrivals
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    Hamas frees 12 more hostages as CIA and Mossad chiefs hold talks in Qatar

    Ceasefire with Israel holds even as exchange of fire in northern Gaza highlights its fragility

    A bus arrives in the West Bank city of Ramallah carrying Palestinians released from Israeli prisons as part of the hostage-prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    US universities search for ways to defuse campus tensions over Gaza

    Conflict between students, staff and faculty is at a pitch not seen since the Vietnam war

    Hundreds of people, mostly students, gather to call for a ceasefire in Gaza during a protest on the UC Berkeley campus
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Central Intelligence Agency
    Senior CIA official posted pro-Palestine image on her Facebook page

    Rare public political statement comes amid dissent over White House’s handling of Israel-Hamas war

    The image shared on the CIA official’s Facebook page
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    Fear, hushed voices and days without food: life as a Hamas hostage

    Families of former captives reveal experiences of seven weeks in captivity

    12-year-old Eitan Yahalomi reunited with his mother following his release by Hamas
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Ghassan Salamé
    The two-state solution is stymied by lack of willpower not knowledge

    A genuine political process cannot move forward with the present players in place

    Palestinians walk among the rubble, as they inspect houses destroyed by Israeli air strikes
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    US warns Israel over southern Gaza offensive

    White House officials urge restraint in planned assault on south Gaza ahead of Middle East visit by US secretary of state

    Palestinians carrying their belongings walk on a road as they cross to southern Gaza
  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel-Hamas truce extended by 2 days as more hostages released

    Deal intended to allow more captives held in Gaza to be freed

    Hostages are handed over by Hamas to the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip
  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    COP28
    UAE planned to use COP28 summit for oil deals, documents show

    Leak appears to outline talking points for discussions with foreign governments

    Sultan al-Jaber
  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel tells Musk Starlink can only operate in Gaza with its approval

    Entrepreneur meets country’s leaders amid furore over alleged antisemitism on his social platform X

    The two men, in flak jackets, including Elon Musk, listen to a third man speaking. An umbrella is held above Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose jacket features an Israeli flag
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