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Academy Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio faced public backlash in October 2023 after renewed attention focused on his involvement in a luxury hotel project in Isr...
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During the Israel–Hamas war that began in October 2023, allegations emerged regarding the use of white phosphorus munitions by Israeli forces in Gaza and southern Leba...
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U.S. Representative Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida and chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, drew attention on Capitol Hill when he appeared in an Israe...
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On September 3, 2023, a 20-year-old British tourist reported to Cypriot authorities that she was sexually assaulted during a party in the resort town of Ayia Napa, Cyp...
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Alex Mashinsky, founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network, became central to the financial collapse of the company. Originally from...
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João Teixeira de Faria, a Brazilian self-described spiritual healer also known as “John of God,” received an additional 99-year prison sentence in July 2023 after bein...
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Criticism Follows Israeli Military Probe Into Death of Palestinian Toddler Anger and criticism were expressed by Palestinian officials and human rights orga...
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Stephen Weiss is an American rabbi who served as senior rabbi at B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper Pike, Ohio, United States. He had been affiliated with the congr...
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In late 2022, Iraqi authorities intensified investigations into one of the country's largest alleged corruption cases, involving the disappearance of billions of dolla...
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Palestinian Child Shot in Jenin Dies From Injuries, Rights Group Reports A Palestinian child who was shot during an Israeli military operation in the occupi...
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The Nord Stream pipelines are two major natural gas pipelines, Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, running under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. The pipelines were...
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Ivana Trump, the first wife of former United States President Donald Trump, died on July 14, 2022, at the age of 73 in New York City. Authorities reported that she die...
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Leon Mund is a former rabbi and teacher who worked within Montreal’s Orthodox Jewish community in Canada. He is reported to have served in roles involving religious in...
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On October 19, 2021, Israel's Knesset Special Committee on Foreign Workers discussed a report examining gender-based violence against Thai migrant agricultural workers...
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Investigative reporting revealed how global elites and major banks hid tens of trillions of dollars in offshore tax havens, significantly affecting global economies an...
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U.S. Drone Strike in Kabul That Killed Civilians Including Children On 29 August 2021, a drone strike conducted by the United States Central Command in Kabu...
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John David McAfee (September 18, 1945 – June 23, 2021) was a British‑American programmer and businessman best known for founding the McAfee antivirus software company....
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On April 19, 2021, Sir Keir Starmer, then leader of the UK Labour Party, was asked to leave The Raven pub in Bath by landlord Rod Humphris during a visit to the city, ...
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Olivier Duhamel, a prominent French political scientist and academic leader, was accused in 2021 of sexually abusing his stepson over many years. The revelations, publ...
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On January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the United States Capitol as Congress was certifying the 2020 presidential election results. Marjorie Taylor Greene, then a p...
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Palantir expands influence under Trump administration On November 12, 2020, reports indicated that Palantir Technologies, a data analytics and software comp...
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and former associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested on July 2, 2020, by the FBI in Bradford, New Hampshire, for her role in re...
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On June 17, 2020, President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson of Iceland visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The visit took place during an international gathering of heads of ...
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King Abdullah II of Jordan visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem during an official diplomatic visit. He followed local protocols, including wearing a skullcap and tou...
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2014–2026 — Egypt remains the most populous country in the Arab world and one of the principal political centers of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Cairo do...
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1970–1981 — Anwar Sadat succeeds Nasser and gradually redirects Egyptian foreign and economic policy. He reduces Soviet influence, encourages economic liberalization a...
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23 July 1952 — Egyptian military officers overthrow King Farouk's government. The movement is driven by dissatisfaction with corruption, political inequality, British ...
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1952–1970 — The Free Officers end the monarchy, reduce British influence, redistribute land and create a powerful developmental state. At the same time, political part...
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6 April 1917–11 November 1918 — The United States begins converting its enormous economy and population into military power. Millions of men enter the draft system whi...
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July 1914 — Russian leaders view Serbia as both a political partner and a test of Russian great-power credibility in the Balkans. Previous retreats in regional crises ...
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1914–1917 Allied purchasing and finance role — J.P. Morgan & Co. becomes a major financial and purchasing intermediary for Britain and France in the United States duri...
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Untitled1914–1918 — Industrial warfare requires food, coal, metals, chemicals, credit and shipping on unprecedented scales. Britain attempts to deny overseas resources...
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28 November 1912 — Delegates meeting at Vlorë proclaim Albania independent from the Ottoman Empire during the First Balkan War. Ismail Qemali leads the provisional gov...
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17 November 1869 — The Suez Canal officially opens, connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas without requiring ships to sail around Africa. The canal transforms globa...
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1805–1848 CE — Muhammad Ali becomes Ottoman governor of Egypt but builds a virtually hereditary state under his family's control. He creates a new army, expands state ...
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1 July 1798 — French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte land in Egypt. The invasion aims to weaken British access to India while expanding French influence in the eastern...
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1250–1517 CE — Military elites known as Mamluks seize political control and establish a powerful sultanate centered on Cairo. They defeat Mongol forces at Ain Jalut an...
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1079–1080 CE — Byzantine historian Michael Attaleiates uses terms generally interpreted as references to Albanians in the western Balkans. These medieval references ar...
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970–972 CE — The Fatimids establish the mosque and teaching institution that develops into al-Azhar. Over the centuries it becomes one of the most influential centers ...
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969 CE — The Isma'ili Shi'a Fatimid Caliphate conquers Egypt and establishes a new political center north of Fustat. Egypt becomes the heart of a powerful caliphate ex...
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641 CE — Muslim authorities establish Fustat near the old Roman fortress of Babylon on the Nile. The city becomes the administrative center of Islamic Egypt and develo...
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641–1000 CE — Arabic did not replace Coptic immediately after the conquest. Government, migration, urban life, taxation, religious conversion and social mobility gradu...
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7th–10th centuries — Arabic increasingly replaces Greek and Coptic in government and eventually becomes the dominant spoken language. Conversion to Islam occurs over g...
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639–642 CE — Forces commanded by Amr ibn al-As invade Byzantine Egypt during the early Islamic conquests. Byzantine resistance collapses gradually, and Alexandria even...
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c. 150 CE — The geographer Claudius Ptolemy records a people called Albanoi and a settlement named Albanopolis in the western Balkans. The similarity to later Albanian...
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1st–4th centuries CE — Christianity spreads through the Roman Balkans and eventually becomes institutionally established. Bishoprics emerge in important cities includi...
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30 BCE — Octavian captures Alexandria after the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra. Egypt becomes a Roman province under unusually close imperial supervision because of it...
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51–30 BCE — Cleopatra VII becomes the final active ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty. She navigates the expanding power of Rome through alliances and relationships first ...
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