Category: 3. Middle East

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes in the north of the territory killed at least 15 people Thursday, as the military warned residents to leave the area.

Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the strikes targeted several homes in…

Over 39,000 children have lost one or both parents in Gaza, new report by the Palestinian statistics agency says.

Tens of thousands of Palestinian children have lost their parents since the start of Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the…

US President Donald Trump has unveiled his long-awaited “reciprocal” tariff plan, in a move that sent financial markets reeling amid growing fears of a global trade war.

On Wednesday, Trump announced a 10 percent “minimum baseline tariff”…

On February 7, the White House cut aid to South Africa, citing a nonexistent threat to white farmers from government land expropriation. To see what might lie beyond Trump’s executive order, South Africa need only look north. Zimbabwe’s…

The move deals a harsh blow to the small, impoverished state, which Trump mocked as a place ‘nobody has heard of’.

The Trump administration has imposed a steep 50 percent tariff on Lesotho, a small, impoverished African nation of two million…

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Armed gangs control about 85 percent of the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the UN.

Thousands of Haitians have taken to the streets of Port-au-Prince to express their anger against armed gangs that control nearly all of the capital and its…