Could New Mexico farmers rake in profits growing the world's most expensive spice?

Could a red spice bring in green for New Mexico’s farmers? New Mexico State University is hoping to find out. Saffron, the most expensive spice in the world, is one of the crops the university’s Agricultural Experiment Station is researching for...

“Settler-Colonialism” is the Wrong Word for Israel

Because mislabeling the conflict distorts moral reasoning and replaces analysis with accusation. These days, many people apply the word “colonialism” to Zionism and Israel as if it were a settled fact, deploying the word as if its meaning were...

Israeli Navy arrests 3 Palestinian fishermen, destroys 2 boats off Gaza coast

GAZA CITY, Palestine/ISTANBUL The Israeli Navy on Saturday arrested three Palestinian fishermen while they were working off the coast of Gaza City and destroyed two fishing boats, according to a local fishing union official. Zakaria Bakr, head of...

Hamas will have “very big problem” if Israel-Palestine peace deal is violated: Trump

United States President Donald Trump on Sunday expressed confidence in achieving lasting peace in the Middle East, while warning Hamas of serious consequences if the ceasefire agreement with Israel is violated. “I think it (ceasefire) will hold....

What the West could learn from Israel

Hostages Square in Tel Aviv is quiet now. The paraphernalia of hope remains. Yellow ribbons dance in the breeze. The flap of a hundred Israel flags breaks the silence. There’s still the burnt-out car that was recovered from the ‘road of death’ in...

‘Armed, dangerous’: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians harvesting olives 

Israeli settlers have attacked several Palestinian villages across the occupied West Bank, as a wave of violence targeting residents harvesting their olive trees intensifies. At least three Palestinians were injured on Saturday after settlers...

Israeli settlers attack West Bank amid IOF detentions in Tulkarm

Israeli settlers attacked the al-Mughayyir village as occupation forces arrested three Palestinians in Tulkarm amid continued aggression across the West Bank. At dawn Saturday, Israeli occupation forces detained three Palestinians from the Tulkarm...

Iraqi Water Crisis Worsens Due to Lack of Strategic Planning

As one of the world’s top oil exporters, Iraq faces an existential threat not from depleting petroleum reserves, but from vanishing water resources that no amount of oil wealth seems able to fix. The Perfect Storm of Water Insecurity Iraq’s water...

Palestine warns of Israeli land grabs in West Bank, East Jerusalem

RAMALLAH, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements, part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Saturday warned of Israeli plans to seize large areas of land in the West Bank and East...

Israel must consider reducing agricultural imports post-war, Israeli agriculture leaders urge

West Bank – Israeli forces attack civilians in multiple cities & towns

Jenin / Bethlehem / Tubas – Saba: Israeli forces continued their attacks on Palestinian civilians across various areas of the West Bank on Saturday, carrying out raids, incursions, gunfire, and arrests. Several Palestinian civilians suffered from...

Saudi Arabia’s camel milk revolution vs. Israel’s missed ppportunity

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated over the weekend: “If the Saudis want normalization on the condition that a Palestinian state be established — no thank you. Let them continue riding camels while we continue to develop.” Although...

Arab-Brazilian Chamber Part Of Lula's Asia Mission

(MENAFN- Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA)) São Paulo – Representatives of the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC ) are part of the business delegation accompanying President Luiz Inácio da Silva on a trip to Indonesia and Malaysia, which...

Oman, Türkiye seek to boost trade and industrial ties

Muscat – Omani and Turkish officials held meetings on Thursday to discuss ways of enhancing commercial and industrial cooperation, as well as bilateral trade between the two countries. H E Qais bin Mohammed al Yousef, Minister of Commerce,...

West Bank community left reeling after Palestinian clubbed by masked Israeli settler

The video of a young, Jewish man wearing a mask and wielding a large stick as he runs towards a woman is short and shocking. Warning: This story contains a graphic account of assault. The unprovoked attack, which took place in the village of...

Scientists develop jelly-like substance that could change farming forever: 'An important step'

There's a demand for new methods. by Leslie SattlerOctober 25, 2025 Scientists in Italy built a water-absorbing gel from ocean plants that lets crops flourish with little irrigation, reported Phys.org. The substance comes from a type of red...

The Middle East’s rapidly growing renewable energy shift

The Middle East is today the fastest-growing renewable energy market outside of China. This is a step in the right direction, as it points to a profound and strategic shift in the region’s energy policy. This shift did not occur overnight. The...

Israel faces pushback on West Bank

A Palestinian farmer carries a bag of olives after his harvest was disrupted by Israeli settlers and halted by Israeli security forces in Sa'ir, near the Israeli occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday. HAZEM BADER/AFP Israel's latest move...

Palestinian recounts night of terror after illegal Israeli settlers attack West Bank village

RAMALLAH, Palestine / ISTANBUL A Palestinian resident of al-Mughayir village, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, described a night of terror after illegal Israeli settlers attacked his home and property late Friday. About 50 illegal...

10 Palestinians injured in illegal Israeli settler attacks in West Bank

Ten Palestinians were injured on Saturday after being attacked by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, local media said, Anadolu reports. Armed settlers assaulted olive pickers with sticks and dogs in the Wadi al-Hajj Issa area of...