Tag: Middle East

Stone Age Europeans sailed by sea to Africa

Researchers have said that eastern Maghreb carried local indigenous hunter-gatherer ancestry similar to that of ancient people from what’s now Morocco. But unlike those western Maghreb hunter-gatherers, whose ancestry was largely replaced by European farmers probably arriving through the Strait of Gibraltar, the local ancestry persisted in Tunisia and Algeria long after the arrival of farmers from Europe and the Middle East.

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Biden’s trip to Israel during the Second World War

US President Joe Biden will travel to the Middle East on Monday to “reaffirm America’s solidarity with Israel” and “press for humanitarian aid to Gaza civilians”, his White House said. The US has been pressing Israel and Egypt to allow food, water and medicine into Gaza, as well as to let civilians out, Biden’s team has been pressing.

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