Category: 3. Middle East

United States President Donald Trump on Friday dramatically ramped up the application fee for companies hiring employees on H-1B worker visas, the principal mechanism for firms to bring in workers with specialised skills from around the world in…

The gesture comes as France prepares to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly

Mayors across France have flown Palestinian flags in defiance of a government order to take them down, before it joins several other European and…

Mass protests have been held across Brazil against a bill that could grant amnesty to former president Jair Bolsonaro and others sentenced for their role in a 2023 coup attempt.

He was arrested in September 2019 and later sentenced in 2021 to five years in jail for “spreading false news”.

The Egyptian-British human rights activist and…

The Taliban has rejected any notion that Bagram airbase would be returned to US forces, which withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021. President Donald Trump has threatened ‘bad things’ if he doesn’t get it back.

The Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, has raised the Palestinian flag outside the Palestine Mission in central London to mark its transition to Palestine’s embassy.

On Friday, Estonia reported that three Russian MiG-31 fighters had entered its airspace for 12 minutes.

Russia has forcefully rejected claims that its military jets…

Palestinian Ambassador Zomlot says ‘moment stands as defiant act of truth, a refusal to let genocide be the final word’.

The Palestinian flag has been raised outside the premises of what is now Palestine’s embassy to the United Kingdom in…

Director of Confluence Advisory, Khalood Khair, explains why she believes the United Nations could play an important role in alleviating the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.