Category: 3. Middle East

Letter urges UN climate meeting in Brazil to consider costs of climate crisis, colonialism, slavery.

Hundreds of environmental and human rights groups and activists have penned a letter urging the upcoming UN climate conference, COP30, in Brazil…

The US says it will revoke the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who urged American soldiers to disobey President Trump during a speech to protesters outside the UN in New York. Petro also called for a global force to intervene…

Family home hit in war-battered Gaza City, with children among the dead and wounded as Israeli bombardment continues.

Kim Jong Un references ‘new important nuclear strategy’ in high-level meeting with scientists and military officials.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has directed…

A devastating magnitude 6.0 earthquake in eastern Afghanistan on August 31 killed more than 2,200 people and injured some 3,600, according to the Taliban authorities.

Nearly half a million were affected by the earthquake in the worst-hit Kunar and…

Pressure is growing on football’s governing bodies to take action against Israel’s national football team over the war on Gaza.

Turkiye has become the first member of European football’s governing body, UEFA, to publicly call for Israel’s…

NEW YORK: The Middle East must avoid an arms race amid one of its most crisis-ridden periods in recent history, Bahrain’s foreign minister told the 80th UN General Assembly on Friday.

Abdullatif bin Rashid…

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil Pinto has told the United Nations General Assembly that the United States has an “illegal and completely immoral military threat hanging over our heads”, as reports emerge that the US is planning to…

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The Colombian leader was filmed joining thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters outside UN headquarters in New York.

The United States Department of…

One calendar entry, dated December 6, 2014, reads: “Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)”.

Democrats on the oversight committee of the United States House of Representatives have released the daily schedules of…