@AminaIsmail

@Reuters European Migration Correspondent based in Brussels. Formerly in Iraq & Egypt. RTs are not endorsements

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Spain deports African, Asian asylum seekers to Morocco amid rights group outcry reut.rs/4z9rmYV

Spain deports African, Asian asylum seekers to Morocco amid rights group outcry

Spain has returned to Morocco more than a dozen sub-Saharan African and Asian migrants who reached the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and were turned ​down for asylum, the first deportation of its kind...

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Spain deports African, Asian asylum seekers to Morocco amid rights group outcry - reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Spain deports African, Asian asylum seekers to Morocco amid rights group outcry

Spain has returned to Morocco more than a dozen sub-Saharan African and Asian migrants who reached the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and were turned ​down for asylum, the first deportation of its kind...

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Critics attack 'anti-democratic' French bill making rioters pay - reuters.com/world/europe/cri…

Critics attack 'anti-democratic' French bill making rioters pay

A proposed French law making rioters liable to pay up to €10,000 ($11,150) for damage they cause faces ​a backlash from rights groups and some lawyers who say it attacks the basic democratic right to...

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Food and household brands warn of more price hikes as Iran war costs bite - reuters.com/business/retail-…

Food and household brands warn of more price hikes as Iran war costs bite

The world's top consumer goods and food companies, from Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble to ​Nestle and Reckitt, have warned of further price hikes next year to cover rising costs even as shoppers...

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Palestinians protest against military demolitions in West Bank as Israelis vote - reuters.com/world/middle-eas…

Palestinians protest against military demolitions in West Bank as Israelis vote

Israeli troops fired a stun grenade on Tuesday to disperse Palestinians who gathered to protest against an Israeli military operation that has displaced thousands of residents from a neighbourhood in...

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Israel votes in pivotal election - reuters.com/live/live-israel…

Israel election: Netanyahu and Eisenkot deadlocked according to exit polls - as it happened

Israel seemed set for uncertain coalition talks as exit polls showed neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor main rival Gadi Eisenkot on track for a majority in the 120-seat Knesset

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"The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage." - @NesrineMalik theguardian.com/commentisfre…

The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage...

Lana Nusseibeh has been the face of a disastrous Emirates policy that has prolonged war and death. It is a scandal that she is even being considered, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Beirut's $13 chicken sandwich becomes symbol of Lebanon divide reut.rs/4snp6uk reut.rs/4snp6uk

Beirut's $13 chicken sandwich becomes symbol of Lebanon divide

Seven years after ​Lebanon’s devastating financial meltdown, a debate over a chicken sandwich has exposed an increasingly stark divide between those who can still spend ‌freely and those struggling...

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US has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine, Middle East, sources say - reuters.com/business/autos-t…

EXCLUSIVE: US has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine, Middle East, sources...

The Biden-era and Trump requests to Musk show a close relationship in which US administrations rely to an unprecedented degree on a private-sector company to help implement foreign policy.

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Beirut's $13 chicken sandwich becomes symbol of Lebanon divide - reuters.com/world/middle-eas…

Beirut's $13 chicken sandwich becomes symbol of Lebanon divide

Seven years after ​Lebanon’s devastating financial meltdown, a debate over a chicken sandwich has exposed an increasingly stark divide between those who can still spend ‌freely and those struggling...

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Timothy E Kaldas@tekaldasOct 23
Important info on Egypt's growing crackdown on its few remaining independent journalists. I note how a weak international response encouraged Egypt to continue. Failing to stop this will greatly impair our understanding of a strategically critical country at a very sensitive time
CPJ MENA@CPJMENAOct 23
Egypt has jailed an entire newsroom and referred @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to trial, in an escalating campaign to silence the country’s remaining independent media. Read CPJ’s analysis of Egypt’s unprecedented crackdown on the press by @m_medhaat: cpj.org/2026/10/whos-next-in…

‘Who’s next?’: Inside Egypt’s unprecedented crackdown on the press - Committee to Protect Journal...

The referral of independent outlet Mada Masr’s editor-in-chief Lina Attalah to trial, alongside the recent detention of an entire newsroom and the targeting of independent journalists, signals an...

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Saudi missile plant expansion may produce more powerful missiles, study says - reuters.com/world/middle-eas…

EXCLUSIVE: Saudi missile plant expansion may produce more powerful missiles, study says

Saudi Arabia appears to be expanding its ballistic missile factory to build larger solid-fuel missiles that could fly farther or carry heavier payloads, according to two US researchers who analyzed...

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Greece, Egypt in talks to extend maritime zone further east reut.rs/4siHSTP reut.rs/4siHSTP

Greece, Egypt in talks to extend maritime zone further east

Greece and Egypt ​are discussing extending their Exclusive Economic ‌Zone eastwards towards Cyprus after eastern Libya's parliament ratified a disputed maritime agreement with ​Turkey earlier this...

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Israeli settlers steal Palestinians' olives as attacks on harvest grow more violent - reuters.com/world/middle-eas…

Israeli settlers steal Palestinians' olives as attacks on harvest grow more violent

Settlers have intimidated Palestinians harvesting their olives ​in the occupied West Bank for decades, but this year, not only has violence increased sharply, theft has been widespread.

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Greece, Egypt in talks to extend maritime zone further east reut.rs/4iyM4eK reut.rs/4iyM4eK

Greece, Egypt in talks to extend maritime zone further east

Greece and Egypt ​are discussing extending their Exclusive Economic ‌Zone eastwards towards Cyprus after eastern Libya's parliament ratified a disputed maritime agreement with ​Turkey earlier this...

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Mai El-Sadany@maitelsadanyOct 22
In an absolutely egregious escalation against press freedom, Egyptian journalist and @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief @Linaattalah has been referred to trial on charges of establishing, managing, and operating a website without a license. Her trial is set to begin this Tuesday, Oct 27.
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Syrian man with Down syndrome killed by Israeli forces in Daraa, agency says haaretz.com/news/middle-east…

Syrian man with Down syndrome killed by Israeli forces in Daraa, agency says

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France reports first human case of livestock virus Shamonda after patient dies - reuters.com/business/healthc…

France reports first human case of livestock virus Shamonda after patient dies

France reported the first human case of the Shamonda virus ‌usually found in livestock on Thursday in a hospital patient who died, though authorities said there was no risk to the general population.

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Government websites go dark after AI-discovered flaw sparks security scramble - reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Government websites go dark after AI-discovered flaw sparks security scramble

Government websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline after the disclosure of ​critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language that sent website operators around the world scrambl...

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Greece rejects Libyan approval of Turkey-Libya maritime deal reut.rs/4sjFOej reut.rs/4sjFOej

Greece rejects Libyan approval of Turkey-Libya maritime deal

Greece on Tuesday rejected a decision by Libya's ​eastern-based House of Representatives to ‌approve the 2019 maritime boundary agreement between Turkey and Libya, ​saying the deal was ​without legal...

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