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    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Israel
      Israel’s attorney-general warns Netanyahu against judicial overhaul

      Gali Baharav-Miara says there is ‘reasonable concern’ of a conflict of interest over PM’s corruption trial

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      Eran Yashiv
      A changing, weakened Israel should worry everyone

      The undermining of the judicial system is one of a number of dangerous developments

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      Tehran acknowledges attack but stops short of attributing blame

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
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      France and Germany endorse policy push despite risk of scuppering nuclear talks

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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      Military and police units will be reinforced and national insurance rights of ‘families of terrorists’ withdrawn

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
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      Israeli forces stage deadly raid on West Bank refugee camp

      Nine people including an elderly woman killed during Jenin shootout, say Palestine officials

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
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      Investigation into 2020 tragedy had been frozen amid accusations of high-level political meddling and impropriety

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
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      Safwan and Seif el-Din Thabet had been held for about two years without charge

    • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
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      Netanyahu removes key cabinet ally on orders of Israeli high court

      Prime minister insists his proposal to weaken powers of judiciary will proceed despite largest protest in a decade

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
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      From Israel to Iran, there is a lengthy list of potential problems in the region

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
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      Protesters vent anger at judiciary overhaul plan and what they see as alarming far-right rhetoric from Netanyahu’s coalition

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
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      European investigators arrive in Beirut for corruption probe

      Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh alleged to have laundered public money

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      Raisi avoids blame as Iran’s pro-democracy forces direct anger elsewhere

      President has been largely ignored by reformists who have focused instead on wider Islamic regime

    • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
      Israel
      Thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu’s judicial reforms

      Hardline new government sparks alarm with sweeping plans to curb power of courts

    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      Israel
      Netanyahu defends judiciary reforms in Israel after protests

      Former supreme court chief describes proposals as ‘tangible danger’ to country’s democracy

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
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      Israel’s new government proposes sweeping powers over judiciary

      Plan is the first major legislative initiative unveiled by Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration

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      Defence establishment and other groups criticise plans to overhaul judicial system and expand settlements

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      Conservative kingdom opens up to the Christian holiday as it pushes through a series of modernising reforms

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      Netanyahu says he has formed new Israeli government

      Country’s longest-serving prime minister set to preside over most rightwing administration in country’s history

    • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
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      Acute shortages have paralysed regime-held parts of the country as economy nears brink of collapse

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      Iran’s foreign minister holds ‘friendly talks’ with Saudi Arabia

      Statement signals Tehran’s willingness to ease tensions with arch rival

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