Category: 3. Middle East

President Donald Trump’s decision to hike the application fee for companies in the United States hiring overseas workers on H-1B visas is likely to push many foreign skilled workers to seek jobs in other countries instead.

The steep cost rise…

At least 11 people, including eight children, were reported killed in a drone attack in a gang-controlled area of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince. Relatives of the victims said police were targeting a suspected gang leader.

The Palestinian flag was raised over Lyon’s town hall on Tuesday, Sept. 23, in defiance of a nationwide ban imposed by the French government, Anadolu reports.

The French Interior Ministry reported that 52…

Mohammed al-Hindi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad movement, said in an interview with Al Jazeera that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “does not want peace and has big illusions.”

He added…

Palestinian parents were seen carrying the bodies of their children after an Israeli attack on a residential building in Gaza City. Witnesses said many people were buried under rubble.

France, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Andorra and Belgium have formally recognised a Palestinian state at the 80th session of the General Assembly (UNGA).

They join Canada, Australia and Portugal, as well as the United Kingdom, which announced its…

The Palestinian National Committee for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement said Monday that French retail giant Carrefour has fully withdrawn from Bahrain and Kuwait under pressure from sustained…

Medical experts have slammed US President Donald Trump after he urged pregnant women not to take paracetamol over its alleged links to autism. Doctors and scientists say the claim is not backed by science.