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• Opinion: The Gulf states will not move against Yemen’s Houthis without decisive Western intervention

  Mere strikes on the rebel group will not be sufficient to convince the Gulf states to join in any action in the quagmire that is Yemen from which they have just managed to extract themselves, nor will guarantees of support if they agree to do so. The Gulf states may be more wary than ever of promises from the West, and will not be swayed without first seeing decisive and independent Western military action.

• Opinion: Israel’s strategic defeat and the resurgence of the Palestinian narrative

  Israel’s strategic defeat is encapsulated not by the loss of a single battle but by the crumbling of its moral foundation and the narrative it has long disseminated. As in Vietnam, where the American spirit was broken not by defeat but by the realisation of the moral implications of their actions, Israel stands at a crossroads. It must choose between continuing down a path of moral isolation or embracing a new chapter that acknowledges the rights and aspirations of the Palestinian people.

• Israel threatens to retaliate after Turkiye restricts trade ties
  Israel’s foreign minister said that Turkiye has “unilaterally violated” trade agreements with its decision to restrict exports to Israel, and that Israel will respond with its own trade restrictions on products coming from Turkiye, Reuters reports.

  Foreign Minister Israel Katz said that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan “is again sacrificing the economic interests of the people of Turkiye in order to support Hamas, and we will respond in kind.”

• Opinion: The Greater Middle East Is A Ticking Time Bomb

  “In fact, for many Egyptian political activists — whether those who led the (2011) revolution or were involved in earlier protests — their gateway into politics was the Palestinian cause. The 2011 uprising in Egypt was literally the climax of a process that started with the second Palestinian intifada a decade earlier,” Mr. El-Hamalawy added.

  Even so, Mr. El-Hamalawy, pointing to Mr. Al-Sisi’s harsh crackdown on dissent, cautioned that “we’re not on the verge of another 2011 because there is a substantial difference between dissidents now and then.”

• Watch: Cristiano Ronaldo sent off in Saudi Super Cup semi-final defeat

  In a fiery Saudi Super Cup semi-final clash between Al Nassr and Al Hilal, Cristiano Ronaldo faced a dramatic end as he was shown a straight red card for elbowing an opponent in the closing minutes of the match. The game ended in a 2-1 victory for Al Hilal, with Ronaldo’s dismissal coming when his team were already trailing 2-0. A tense encounter culminated in Ronaldo’s sending off for an elbow on Ali Al-Bulayhi even though Al Nassr found a late consolation goal.

• Saudi Arabia’s air and space forces merger to happen this year: Sources

  Saudi Arabia plans to merge its air and space forces into a single organization sometime this year, three Saudi military officials told Breaking Defense, in part of what experts say is an ambitious but ultimately long-term plan for the Kingdom to develop robust space-based defense capabilities. While plans can always change, one of the Saudi Ministry of Defense officials — who like the others spoke with Breaking Defense on the condition of anonymity at the World Defense Show outside Riyadh earlier this year — said, “We need space for deterrence. In 2024, MoD will merge air and space forces to defend the assets it has.”

• How Saudi Arabia Hopes to Carve a New Reputation With $22 Billion Railway

  With Saudi Arabia set to host the World Expo 2030 and as a frontrunner to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup, the country's new metro megaproject is a chance to transform its economy as well as improve its reputation.

• Shocks in G20 emerging economies hit rich-world growth, IMF says

  Domestic shocks in emerging economies in the G20 are increasingly impacting growth in the rich world, according to a report published on Tuesday by the International Monetary Fund. Those countries -- ranging from China, the world's second-largest economy, to default-prone Argentina -- have become so embedded in the global economy, particularly via trade and commodity value chains, that they are "no longer simply on the receiving end of global shocks."

• Political Instability and Environmental Politics in Postrevolutionary Tunisia

  Some civil society groups hoped that President Kais Saied’s 2021 coup and the relative stability that ensued would result in a clear political agenda, and some environmental activists were among the optimists. In practice, the government has shown a sustained lack of political will to act on the environment, and implementation of environmental projects and policies continues to be weak. In the meantime, Tunisia’s ecological issues are worsening, ranging from the growing impacts of climate change to industrial pollution and poor waste management.

• Steelmaking could be 95% cleaner with the use of hydrogen

  o in traditional steelmaking, iron ore is mined from the ground. That needs to be reduced to iron oxide. So, it’s heated with coal or coke in a blast furnace to separate iron from the oxide. So, the carbon monoxide in coal takes out oxygen and that becomes CO2. That’s one source of carbon leakage in the steelmaking process, and another source of CO2 emissions is in the steel mill where a lot of heating and cooling happens.

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