Follow South China Morning Post - Middle East, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/scmp19 Thu, 01 Jun 2023 11:10:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTogVo5naGdJSRZVjH6qdYdAk Elaheh Mohammadi, a reporter for the pro-reform Hammihan newspaper, is accused of ‘colluding with hostile powers’, which potentially carries the death penalty, after she covered the funeral of the 22-year-old who died while in the custody of the morality police.]]> Mon, 29 May 2023 16:55:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTogVo5naGdJSRZVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTog3tzW4E9UxQ6CY3L745TL_ Hong Kong businesses reap the benefits of city leader John Lee’s visit to Saudi Arabia and UAE in February.]]> Mon, 29 May 2023 04:30:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTog3tzW4E9UxQ6CY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojq3JRvhuTFeeT5HJgy6HUf As political scrutiny of Chinese apps grows overseas, Newborn Town is finding success by churning out multiple social media and dating apps.]]> Sun, 28 May 2023 03:00:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojq3JRvhuTFeeT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToguqZv7vQJR-Hn9ye8UNv30 The group of 10 were detained in March and accused of having links to Lebanon’s Shiite movement Hezbollah, which Abu Dhabi classifies as a terrorist organisation. One of the prisoners died in custody on May 4.]]> Sat, 27 May 2023 20:03:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToguqZv7vQJR-Hn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojoRAICX77f6Zs0ohxaO6Yr The Development Road aims to tie the Grand Faw Port in Iraq’s oil-rich south to Turkey, turning the country into a transit hub in a bid to rival the Suez Canal.]]> Sat, 27 May 2023 15:13:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojoRAICX77f6Zs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojKFnJgxDUujps0ohxaO6Yr The UN’s head of peacekeeping operations said that a divided Security Council was hampering the work of the so-called Blue Helmet forces.]]> Fri, 26 May 2023 05:41:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojKFnJgxDUujps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiSlxCcYgBzA5s0ohxaO6Yr State TV aired footage said to show the launch of an upgraded version of the Khoramshahr 4, which is able to carry a 1,500kg warhead.]]> Thu, 25 May 2023 22:01:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiSlxCcYgBzA5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojFm-pvDH04j8b1naedg1wr A man, who had been convicted of the capital crime of ‘corruption on earth’, was executed in front of large crowds, which rights groups have denounced as a ‘medieval’ practice.]]> Thu, 25 May 2023 17:35:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTojFm-pvDH04j8b1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToi3BYdXYY9z65s0ohxaO6Yr Assad’s return to Arab League and Zelensky’s appearance mark efforts by Arab states to remain diplomatically neutral in the West’s tensions with Russia and China.]]> Wed, 24 May 2023 11:01:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToi3BYdXYY9z65s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohY4-YXFason5s0ohxaO6Yr The US Air Force on May 2 released rare images of the weapon, the GBU-57, known as the ‘Massive Ordnance Penetrator’. Then it took the photos down.]]> Tue, 23 May 2023 07:40:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohY4-YXFason5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToi397UkROBI48b1naedg1wr Ali Shamkhani will be replaced by Ali Akbar Ahmadian, who sits on the country’s Expediency Council that advises the supreme leader.]]> Mon, 22 May 2023 13:16:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToi397UkROBI48b1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiCJsA_6WxvTeT5HJgy6HUf National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to Temple Mount comes days after Israelis marked Jerusalem Day, which celebrates Israel’s capturing of east Jerusalem in 1967.]]> Sun, 21 May 2023 09:50:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiCJsA_6WxvTeT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohQNmKk-E0CUsb1naedg1wr Iran’s judiciary said Shahrooz Sokhanvari, a man known as ‘Alex’, was the leader of an ‘escort and trafficking network of Iranian women and girls’ to countries in the region.]]> Sat, 20 May 2023 21:19:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohQNmKk-E0CUsb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToitw2UsAvMQIV1cWWor9YPv The US military’s Central Command said it was ‘aware of allegations that the May 3 strike may have resulted in a civilian casualty’.]]> Sat, 20 May 2023 06:12:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToitw2UsAvMQIV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiHyQxfY5buups0ohxaO6Yr ‘Take an honest look …’ President Volodymyr Zelensky urged in a speech at the Arab League summit in Jedda, and highlighted how the war in Ukraine has affected Muslims in the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014.]]> Fri, 19 May 2023 16:25:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiHyQxfY5buups0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiqCobvAetxOOzdsCmHakzH Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greeted Bashar al-Assad with a hug, and the Syrian President rubbed shoulders with leaders who had shunned him for years.]]> Fri, 19 May 2023 14:04:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiqCobvAetxOOzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiTGW4KUeY4iylmFkX7M1Jw The Turkish president’s sweeping purges have sent chills through Turkish society and made him an increasingly uncomfortable partner for the West.]]> Sun, 14 May 2023 10:00:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiTGW4KUeY4iylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohpZHvlzd-ijF1cWWor9YPv Iranians are concerned about online safety and privacy when using approved local apps such as Bale, Neshan, Snapp! and Soroush .]]> Sun, 14 May 2023 09:00:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BTohpZHvlzd-ijF1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToi12zaF0fejzcb1naedg1wr Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held his last election rallies in Istanbul on Saturday. ‘Biden gave the order to topple Erdogan, I know this. All my people know this,’ said Erdogan.]]> Sat, 13 May 2023 22:20:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToi12zaF0fejzcb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiMFtQ48_5UASejEQ2Mq9rY Even as the truce was being finalised on Saturday, the two sides kept up firing, with air raid sirens sounding as far as Tel Aviv’s suburbs.]]> Sat, 13 May 2023 21:38:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kXdF-5_BToiMFtQ48_5UASejEQ2Mq9rY