Category: 3. Middle East

Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to over 27 years in prison for plotting a coup after his 2022 election loss. The historic trial has deepened political divisions in the country and triggered a sharp…

In a rare move, the US backed a UN Security Council statement condemning Israel’s attack on Hamas’s political office in Doha. Members took turns to criticise the Israeli move, highlighting support for the “territorial integrity of…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday, local health authorities said, most of them in Gaza City where many residents are staying put despite Israeli evacuation orders…

United States President Donald Trump has said that “with a high degree of certainty” that the gunman suspect in right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk’s killing…

A Palestinian mother filmed the panic and confusion, screaming for her son after she said an Israeli strike targeted their neighbour’s home as they were preparing to evacuate. Palestinians in Gaza City say Israel often gives only…

By Emma Farge

GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) has closed eight centres providing support to Afghan refugees forced back to the country because Taliban authorities are preventing female U.N. staff from entering them, an official…

Doha, Qatar – Six coffins – five of them draped in Palestinian flags, one in a Qatari flag – were laid before the hundreds gathered for funeral prayers at Doha’s Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Mosque.

Sitting in the front row of the…

Spain has expressed frustration over its lack of power to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza, with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez saying the country’s absence of nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers and major oil…

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Thursday condemned Israel’s strike in the Qatari capital, Doha, calling it a “barbaric crime” and a threat to the sovereignty of Qatar and the stability of the entire…