Greece said on Thursday that the EU should develop an emergency mechanism to temporarily suspend applications for ​asylum in major migration crises such as the arrival ‌of tens of thousands of people in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in July.

Worry is a natural response to AI’s threat of societal upheaval — but therapists say there are some things you can do to cope and feel better.

<article data-history-node-id="448364" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-gunfire-kills-child-gaza-0" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-gunfire-kills-child-gaza-0" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli gunfire kills child in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><meta charset="UTF-8"></p> <p>A child has been killed by Israeli gunfire in Rafah’s al-Mawasi, in the southern Gaza Strip,&nbsp;Al Jazeera Arabic reported, citing ambulance and emergency sources.</p> <p>Earlier today, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.</p> <p>Israel has already killed more than 1,400 people in the strip since last year’s “ceasefire”.</p> </div> </div> </article>

The Israeli leader’s appearance at the U.N. General Assembly this week will be his first time in New York since the mayor called for his arrest.

<article data-history-node-id="448130" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-says-uk-us-relations-better-under-burnham-starmer" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-says-uk-us-relations-better-under-burnham-starmer" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Trump says UK-US relations better under Burnham than Starmer</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>US President Donald Trump said US relations with the UK were better under Prime Minister Andy Burnham than his predecessor, Keir Starmer, as the leaders met for the first time on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.</p> <p>“Right now, based on my relationship with your prime minister Andy, I think that we’re doing very well,” he said.</p> <p>He added that he believed Burnham would reconsider a deal to return the Chagos Islands – which hosts the strategic Diego Garcia US-UK military base – to Mauritius.</p> <p>“I don’t support it, I think it’s terrible,” Trump said of the agreement, after&nbsp;Burnham “underlined his commitment” to Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam to working with Mauritius and the US “on a way forward” on Monday.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham shakes hands with US President Donald Trump during a meeting on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026 Toby Melville - WPA Pool/Getty Images/AFP" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="2e5b4fe1-3417-45cb-9b6a-12f7ba48be16" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/063_2296058166.jpg" width="1920" height="1080" alt="Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham shakes hands with US President Donald Trump during a meeting on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026 Toby Melville - WPA Pool/Getty Images/AFP" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham (L) shakes hands with US President Donald Trump during a meeting on the sidelines of the UN meeting in New York on 22 September 2026 (Toby Melville/WPA Pool/AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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Dismissed in Taiwan as simply propaganda, the Long Watch, or Jiaofeng, has proved a sensation across the strait with its references to real-life crises

Russia’s Africa Corps may have provided the firepower that helped quash a coup attempt in Niger, but the arrival of four Algerian fighter jets in Niamey hailed a different kind of coup — Algeria’s return to regional power.

<article data-history-node-id="447486" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-say-target-unmanned-us-sea-drone-hormuz" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-say-target-unmanned-us-sea-drone-hormuz" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">IRGC says it targets unmanned US sea drone in Hormuz</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><meta charset="UTF-8">Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday its navy targeted a US unmanned surface vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.</p> <p>"The Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted a Saildrone Explorer-type unmanned surface vessel in the Strait of Hormuz area, they said in a statement carried by their Sepah news outlet.</p> <p>IRGC added that the sea drone had been used in the region by the US Fifth Fleet stationed in Bahrain.</p> <p>Washington has previously used Saildrone Explorer USs to gather data and images in the Gulf. The sea drones are driven by solar and wind energy and can be deployed on missions in the ocean for up to one year.</p> <p>Iran on Wednesday said it captured an unmanned US submarine drone. The US military said one of its underwater drones had "malfunctioned".</p> </div> </div> </article>

As Trump wages an unpopular war with Iran, Jeremy Varon discusses what lessons from the movement that turned the tide against the Iraq War.

Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence Prominent British rabbis have backed Ed Miliband’s sanctions on Israeli settlements, warning that the time for inaction on settler violence must come to an end. The intervention comes after the UK’s chief rabbi, the spiritual leader of mainstream Orthodox Jews in the UK, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, described UK sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as a “dark day for British Jews” and warned they could embolden people who “use hatred as a weapon against Jews”. Continue reading...

An investigation by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, which will appear in Haaretz's Friday edition, exposes Benjamin Netanyahu's biggest lie. Since Octo

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U.S. Vice ​President JD ‌Vance told reporters on ​Thursday ​that the United ⁠States does ​not plan ​to hold talks with Iran ​unless ​Tehran stops attacking commercial ‌shipping ⁠in the Strait of Hormuz.

<article data-history-node-id="446842" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/irans-army-claims-drone-attack-uaes-al-minhad-air-base" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/irans-army-claims-drone-attack-uaes-al-minhad-air-base" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iran’s army claims drone attack on&nbsp;UAE’s Al Minhad Air Base</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Iranian army said it attacked the UAE's Al Minhad Air Base with drones early on Monday, according to state media.&nbsp;</p> <p>The drone strikes were in&nbsp;response to the killing and wounding of IRGC members and Iranian civilians in an earlier US attack on&nbsp;Larak Island, the&nbsp;Army Public Relations Department said in a statement.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Colonel Nochi Mendel ordered the attack that killed World Central Kitchen workers including Palestinian, British, Australian, Canadian and Polish nationals

L’armée israélienne a déclaré avoir ciblé « plusieurs terroristes » vendredi dans la région de Jénine, dans le nord de la Cisjordanie occupée.

Lawyers say Egypt detained Eman el-Shazly to pressure her UK-based sister into ending her criticism of President Sisi

L’artiste, dont les œuvres dépeignaient les traditions palestiniennes et la lutte de son peuple sous l’occupation israélienne, est mort dans sa maison à Jérusalem-Est, ont précisé ses proches.

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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“Americans did not ask for this war, and they cannot afford it,” reads the letter sent to President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Russia's Justice Ministry on Friday declared the independent Mediazona news outlet a "foreign ​agent", a designation used to label ‌foreign-funded organisations that it says are engaged in political activity.

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The charity rescue ship, EMERGENCY, rescued ​50 migrants from an ‌wooden boat in international waters off Libya on Monday, ​while seven others ​were found dead, the charity ⁠said.

The United States wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly condemn militant settlers who have besieged Palestinians in their homes in ​the occupied West Bank, U.S. and Israeli offic...

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