WILLOW is tough. You have to pull it and poke it and soak it before it is pliable. Even then, it needs to be worked with determination and…

WILLOW is tough. You have to pull it and poke it and soak it before it is pliable. Even then, it needs to be worked with determination and…

A legal team says the justice minister's decision is irrational and discriminatory, with 26 more cases in the pipeline

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New official data reveals that foreign-born workers and their descendants make up more than a quarter of all employees in Germany. As such, they play a crucial role in key industries like healthcare, hospitality and construction.

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<article data-history-node-id="448483" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/could-britain-defy-israels-order-shut-down-its-east-jerusalem-consulate" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/could-britain-defy-israels-order-shut-down-its-east-jerusalem-consulate" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Could Britain defy Israel’s order to shut down its East Jerusalem consulate?</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Sir Vincent Fean, trustee of the British Palestine Project and himself a former consul-general in East Jerusalem, on Monday told MEE that “Israel’s threat to close the British Consulate-General is not just wrong - it is illegal”.&nbsp;</p> <p>Three weeks ago, Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar announced the closure of the consulate as part of a package of retaliatory measures following UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband’s decision to ban trade with Israeli settlements. He gave a deadline of 8 October.</p> <p>It has been widely assumed that Britain would comply with this Israeli order, but Middle East Eye can reveal this is not certain.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/could-britain-defy-israels-order-shut-down-its-east-jerusalem-consulate">Could Britain defy Israel’s order to shut down its East Jerusalem consulate?</a></h3> <div alt="A man stands outside the British consulate in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem on 8 September (AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="85f55f9b-0ceb-4658-9a73-3f07c17e634d" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/east%20jerusalem%20consulate%202026%20sep14.jpg" width="1024" height="682" alt="A man stands outside the British consulate in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem on 8 September (AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="448484" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-targets-apartment-west-gaza-city-children-amongst-wounded" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-targets-apartment-west-gaza-city-children-amongst-wounded" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel targets apartment west of Gaza City, children amongst wounded</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>An Israeli drone has&nbsp;targeted a residential apartment in al-Nasr neighbourhood, west of Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera citing medical sources at&nbsp;al-Shifa Hospital.</p> <p>According to the network, footage showed medics treating&nbsp;children with severe wounds following the attack.</p> <p>The total number of casualties remains unclear.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

A UNIVERSITY can tell you a great deal about the country around it, not only through what it teaches, but through what it decides is worth keeping,…

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

Home secretary under pressure over changes to indefinite leave to remain that would penalise foreign care workers

Stochastic violence is the medium of our era.

Exclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings

Exclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings

Army chief accuses Eritrea of funding and supporting armed groups to weaken Ethiopia.

<article data-history-node-id="448391" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/smotrich-calls-doing-west-bank-what-we-did-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/smotrich-calls-doing-west-bank-what-we-did-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Smotrich calls for doing in West Bank 'what we did in Gaza'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called on Israel to “go to war” in the West Bank and “do what we did in Gaza.”&nbsp;</p> <p>“I certainly have solutions” to the situation in the West Bank, he told a podcast on Ynet outlet.&nbsp;</p> <p>“I think we need to go to war in Judea and Samaria, to do there what we did in Gaza, to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, which is a terror authority,” he said.</p> <p>He also called on Israel to annex southern Lebanon and the areas of Gaza still under Israeli control.</p> <p>Smotrich has previously called on Israel to annex more than 80 percent of the West Bank.&nbsp; His campaign for next month’s election has frequently called for a significant expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.<br> &nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount. The decision to halt development came just hours after the company disclosed Friday that it was reviewing several incidents from the summer in which OpenAI agents searching federal government websites acted in unexpected ways beyond what was asked of them while gathering and distributing information. Continue reading...

<article data-history-node-id="448380" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israels-attorney-general-orders-postponement-e1-settlement-tender-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israels-attorney-general-orders-postponement-e1-settlement-tender-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel's attorney general orders postponement of E1 settlement tender, report says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israel’s attorney general has ordered a one-month postponement of an E1 settlement construction tender in the West Bank to avoid it being used for electioneering, Al Jazeera reported.</p> <p>The tender, published on 18 August, covers seven residential compounds containing 1,234 housing units, out of the 3,401 units approved for E1, according to Israeli media. The deadline for bids had been set for 19 October, eight days before the Knesset election.</p> <p>E1 (East 1) would link Ma’ale Adumim and other illegal Israeli settlements to occupied East Jerusalem, effectively severing the West Bank and disrupting Palestinian movement between the northern and southern West Bank, and isolating communities on each side.</p> <p>The European Union has said the E1 settlement project fundamentally undermines the prospects for a two-state solution.</p> <p>It noted that these developments come amid increasing instability in the West Bank and record levels of settler violence.<br> &nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Protesters criticised New York City Mayor Mamdani’s reversal of campaign pledge to arrest Israeli prime minister

Human rights council names and shames businesses with ties to illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank The UN human rights office has added 61 more companies to a blacklist of firms that it says are involved in violating Palestinian human rights through business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The vast majority of the total 214 companies, which are based in 11 countries, are Israeli. Five of the 158 companies listed last year were removed in the latest update. Continue reading...

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Israeli leader attacks everyone from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to Turkey's Erdogan and France in his address

Armed groups clashed with government forces across northern Ethiopia as fears mount of regional spillover.