Category: 3. Middle East

There was applause in Japan’s parliament as members voted in the country’s first woman prime minister, hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi. She replaces Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned after his coalition lost parliamentary elections in…

Thick smog blanketed India’s capital, a day after millions celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali with fireworks, sending air pollution levels soaring to…

During talks at the White House with Australia’s prime minister, US President Donald Trump told Australian Ambassador Kevin Rudd “I don’t like you either” in response to a question about Rudd’s past criticisms of Trump.

DUBAI: For women diagnosed with breast cancer, survival is only a part of the story.

What follows — the emotional, physical and psychological process of recovery — often demands a different kind of strength.

Around the world, and…

Appointment clinched via a last-minute coalition deal, but government remains without a majority, leaving the risk of instability.

Japan’s parliament has elected…

An Israeli settler assaulted a Palestinian woman while she was harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank town of Turmus Ayya. Witnesses say around 200 armed settlers opened fire on farmers and burned cars as Israeli soldiers looked on.

The California-born player won the Under 12 world championship and became a grandmaster at 18.

American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died unexpectedly at…

Seven of nine institutions approached by the Trump administration have now declined to sign new federal funding rules.

The University of Arizona has become the seventh university to decline to sign a set of policies put forward by the…

Deadly Israeli attacks have continued across Gaza as US VP and other officials visit Israel for talks on ceasefire agreement.

The military also confiscated 30 Starlink satellites from the sprawling KK Park scam centre on the border with Thailand.

Myanmar’s military says it has arrested…