Category: 3. Middle East

Iran has sentenced Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi in absentia to one year in prison and a travel ban over “propaganda activities” against the country, his lawyer told AFP on Monday.

The sentence includes a two-year travel ban and…

The president of the International Criminal Court and key European members on Monday issued a defiant declaration of the tribunal’s independence in the face of US sanctions against several of its top officials.

Opening an annual meeting that…

ANKARA, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that attacks on commercial ships in the Black Sea were unacceptable, issuing a warning to “all related sides” after an unmanned vessel reportedly struck a tanker off…

The spending increase will stay in place for at least the next three years.

The United States has announced a new trade deal with the United Kingdom that includes zero…

Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – The first heavy rain of the winter season arrived not as a blessing, but as a new catastrophe for Samar al-Salmi and her family.

Early in the morning, torrents of water crashed through their worn-out tent in a…

As families struggle to make ends meet during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, many children have been forced to quit school and take up jobs instead.

More than 1,000 people have died in floods and landslides across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia after days of tropical storms. In North Sumatra, President Prabowo faces mounting pressure to declare a national emergency as aid…

The Israeli army on Monday renewed its violation of Syria’s sovereignty, staging two incursions into the Quneitra countryside in the country’s southwest, Anadolu reports.

Israeli army forces advanced toward the…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris to bolster support for Kyiv, as Ukrainian and European defence chiefs gathered in Brussels for talks centred around Ukrainian and collective…