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At the White House press briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked for an official reaction to the news that Israel Knesset passed a law giving the prime minister the power to shutter foreign news networks, specifically aimed at Al Jazeera.She answered, "If it is true, if it is true, a move like this is concerning. We believe in the freedom of the press. It is critical. It is critically important. And the United States supports the critically important work journalists around the world do. And that includes those who are reporting in the conflict in Gaza. So...

The request published in "Al-Araby Al-Jadeed" comes after a serious injury to the Egyptian economy due to a decrease in the passage of ships in the Suez Canal • In Egypt they emphasize that the war has already given its signals on the Egyptian economy - not only in the issue of the Suez Canal, but also in the export of gas. The Houthi blockade of ships in the Red Sea is beginning to affect the revenues of the Suez Canal, which accounts for about 2% of Egypt's GDP. As a result, Cairo appealed to the Houthi rebels to focus...

Mohammed Assaf, the Gazan winner of 2013's Arab Idol contest, was answering questions from fans in a Skype phone-in this week when he received a comment from an Israeli caller who said: "You should come to Israel...you have Israeli blood," the fan said. Assaf replied, "I spit on you and Israel" before going on to answer other fans' questions. It is not clear if the fan was a Jew or an Arab. "I don't want to talk about this issue too much," Assaf told The New Arab afterward. "The person who said that wanted to provoke me and it's known...