Category: 3. Middle East

Federal judge says Trump administration cannot refuse to spend funds appropriated by US Congress.

A United States federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot single-handedly slash billions of…

Rescuers have recovered 370 bodies from a landslide that wiped out a remote mountain village in Sudan’s Darfur region, a local civilian leader said on Thursday.

The disaster struck the village of Tarasin, located high in the Jebel Marra range, on…

An Egyptian official called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “delusional,” defying him to cancel a gas agreement between Egypt and Israel, Anadolu reports.

“Netanyahu can’t bear the economic and…

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Venezuela says the US violated international law after President Trump posted a video he says shows the military targeting a boat smuggling drugs in international waters. Eleven people were reportedly killed in the strike which critics…

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By Emma Farge

GENEVA (Reuters) -A U.N. body has found that the United States and the United Arab Emirates are jointly responsible for holding an Afghan man in arbitrary detention in Abu Dhabi for over two years in a case rights groups say is…

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met in Doha on Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Anadolu reports.

During the meeting, Araghchi conveyed a message from President Masoud Pezeshkian to…