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Zelensky Flip-Flops: Now Says Ukraine ‘Grateful’ After Slamming Israeli Mediation on Russia

Hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a bitter speech to the Israeli parliament on Sunday condemning Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s mediation efforts with Russian President Vladimir Putin as an attempt to mediate “between good and evil,” the Ukrainain leader reversed course and said his country was “grateful” to Israel’s prime minister.

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Sherman Dodges on Taking Iran’s IRGC off Terrorist List

On Friday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman dodged questions on whether the United States will remove the designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the Foreign Terrorist Organization list, stating that it’s

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United Arab Emirates Seeks Cooperation with Russia on Energy

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan said during a visit to Moscow on Thursday that his government looks forward to working with Russia – an outlaw state in the eyes of the U.S. and Europe – on “improving global energy security.”

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Iran Claims Missile Attack on Iraqi Kurds

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran on Sunday formally took responsibility for the missile attack on Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. The IRGC is the theocratically-controlled wing of the Iranian military and has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.

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Israeli FM: We Have Moral Duty to Let in More Non-Jews

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Sunday that Israel has a “moral duty” to allow in more non-Jewish refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, following criticism of the government’s refugee policy that limited entry into the country to 25,000 Ukrainians not eligible for Israeli citizenship.

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