2 French journalists expelled from Morocco as tensions revive between Rabat and Paris | AP News

2 French journalists expelled from Morocco as tensions revive between Rabat and Paris | AP News

PARIS (AP) — Two French journalists have been expelled from Morocco this week in a move denounced by media outlets and press freedom advocates. Staff reporter Quentin Müller and freelancer photojournalist Thérèse Di Campo, who work for the weekly Marianne magazine, said on Wednesday that they were taken by force from their Casablanca hotel room

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UN reports says West Bank settler violence has displaced over 1,100 Palestinians since 2022 | AP News

UN reports says West Bank settler violence has displaced over 1,100 Palestinians since 2022 | AP News

JERUSALEM (AP) — Violence from Israeli settlers has displaced over 1,100 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2022, according to a U.N. report released Thursday, with officials describing the exodus as unparalleled in recent years. The report documented about three settler-related incidents each day in the West Bank — the highest daily average since

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Israel strikes alleged Syrian military structures. It says the buildings violated a 1974 cease-fire | AP News

Israel strikes alleged Syrian military structures. It says the buildings violated a 1974 cease-fire | AP News

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli tanks struck two structures on Thursday inside what the army said was a demilitarized zone in Syria, claiming the buildings violated a half-century-old cease-fire agreement between the two countries, the Israeli army said. The structures, it said, were being used by the Syrian military, amounting to what the army called a

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Bulgaria expels a Russian and 2 Belarusian clerics accused of spying for Moscow | AP News

Bulgaria expels a Russian and 2 Belarusian clerics accused of spying for Moscow | AP News

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria is expelling one Russian and two Belarusian nationals for carrying out activities against Bulgaria’s national security and interests, authorities said on Thursday.The country’s agency for national security said in a press release that the three had worked to “purposefully influence the social and political processes in Bulgaria in favor of

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EU calls on Bosnian Serb parliament to reject draft law that brands NGOs as ‘foreign agents’ | AP News

EU calls on Bosnian Serb parliament to reject draft law that brands NGOs as ‘foreign agents’ | AP News

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The European Union on Thursday urged authorities in the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia to without delay withdraw a draft law that brands non-profit groups funded from abroad as “foreign agents.”The law is to be adopted by the Bosnian Serb parliament at a session starting next Tuesday. The assembly is dominated by

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