Category: 3. Middle East

UN agency urges production of affordable generics for GLP-1 drugs to treat obesity and diabetes in developing countries.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has added a new set of drugs for obesity and diabetes to…

The UK government is facing growing anger and outrage over its decision to host Israeli President Isaac Herzog this week, while simultaneously cracking down on British citizens protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot told AFP Friday that the EU’s credibility on foreign policy was “collapsing” due to the bloc’s failure to act over Israel’s war in Gaza.

“It is undeniable, we are not going to bury our heads in the sand, that…

Volker Turk warns that the US sanctions over ICC cooperation could have a ‘chilling effect’ on civil society globally.

United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk has rejected United States sanctions on Palestinian rights groups as…

Officials in the US city of Chicago were bracing for a possible deployment of the United States National Guard on Friday, as part of President Donald Trump’s wider crackdown on crime and immigration – notably, many point out, in Democratic…

A group of senior Democratic senators in the US has issued a scathing letter calling on the Trump administration to immediately halt funding to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial private organisatContinue Reading

The Israeli military on Friday struck a residential building in western Gaza City that houses hundreds of displaced Palestinians in a densely populated area that shelters tens of thousands of civilians.

The targeted…

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty reaffirmed support for Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, condemning repeated Israeli attacks during a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani,…