Netherlands Moves to Ban Settlement Goods as European Pressure on Israel Intensifies

Netherlands Moves to Ban Settlement Goods as European Pressure on Israel Intensifies

March 29, 2025, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands: A pro-Palestinian demonstrator burns a hand-fashioned Israeli flag. Photo: James Petermeier/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect The Netherlands is expected to become the latest European country to restrict trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, advancing one of the most far-reaching measures yet as international efforts to…

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The Logic of Blockade Politics, Chokepoint Leverage and Landlockedness – HORN REVIEW

The Logic of Blockade Politics, Chokepoint Leverage and Landlockedness – HORN REVIEW

Maritime chokepoints have repeatedly shaped the outcomes of international disputes by offering those who can influence them a potent means of leverage. In 1951, when Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh nationalized the oil industry, the United Kingdom responded by deploying the Royal Navy to blockade Abadan and restrict Iranian tankers from transiting the Strait of…

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US Imposes New Iran Sanctions on Oil Tankers as Drone Hits Gas Storage Tanker in Egypt’s Damietta Port Amid Middle East Tensions Escalate

US Imposes New Iran Sanctions on Oil Tankers as Drone Hits Gas Storage Tanker in Egypt’s Damietta Port Amid Middle East Tensions Escalate

0 US-Israel-Iran War Latest News: The conflict between the US, Israel and Iran is moving into another stage that is both dangerous and potentially disastrous, where economic sanctions and attacks on energy infrastructures take place in almost the same period of time while the US authorities announce new sanctions related to Iran, a drone attack…

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The key issues that will shape Israel’s elections

The key issues that will shape Israel’s elections

When Israel goes to the polls this year, voters will weigh in on conscription, the economy and how the state should investigate its inability to prevent Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack. AFP looks at the key issues shaping the campaign as Israel gears up for elections on October 27. – Accountability for October 7 –…

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Technion ranks 25th worldwide for AI production capacity

Technion ranks 25th worldwide for AI production capacity

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology was ranked 25th worldwide in a new index measuring universities’ ability to advance AI research, talent, and entrepreneurship. The Technion ranked first among Israeli institutions and fourth in Europe. The index also ranked the university eighth in the world for the number of graduates who go on to found AI companies….

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Turkmenistan, Türkiye discuss trade, energy ties in Ankara

Turkmenistan, Türkiye discuss trade, energy ties in Ankara

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 29. Turkmenistan and Türkiye have discussed expanding cooperation in trade, energy, transport, and construction during political consultations in Ankara. The consultations were held at the level of heads of structural divisions of the foreign ministries of the two countries, according to a press release issued by Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The…

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Erdogan’s Africa strategy: A new front in Turkey’s expanding rivalry with Israel

Erdogan’s Africa strategy: A new front in Turkey’s expanding rivalry with Israel

There is a temptation to read a deepening Turkey-South Africa relationship as a story about trade diversification and multipolar hedging – two “middle powers” finding common cause in a post-Western world. That framing misses what is actually gluing the two governments together. Ankara joined Pretoria’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice…

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JSF: Economic corridors enhance Jordan in global trade networks

JSF: Economic corridors enhance Jordan in global trade networks

Amman, July 27 (Petra) – The Jordan Strategy Forum (JSF) issued a policy paper titled “Jordan and Economic Corridors: Strategic Opportunities in a Changing Global Economy,” which addressed the rapid transformations in international trade and transport networks, and opportunities that emerging economic corridors offer Jordan to enhance its standing in the regional and global trade…

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