Category: 3. Middle East

WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urged all countries to monitor passengers who were on the MV Hondius cruise ship.

The World Health Organization has urged countries to continue monitoring passengers for…

Warsh will lead the central bank at a time when its independence has come under scrutiny amid political pressure.

Kevin Warsh has been sworn in as the new chair of the United States Federal Reserve Board of…

NATO’s mission to Iraq, which was entirely evacuated to a base in Italy due to the Middle East war, could return to Baghdad in the coming months, its former commander told AFP.

“The general staff is working on various options” to allow the mission…

Nine countries including UK, Germany and France warn settlements in occupied West Bank are a ‘breach of international law’.

Nine Western countries have urged Israel to stop expanding its settlements in the…

As petrol prices rise, new survey suggests economic confidence in the US is at -45, the worst since 2022.

Only 16 percent of Americans view the economy in the United States as “good” or “excellent”, a new…

ZURICH, May 22 (Reuters) – Switzerland expanded its sanctions lists against Russia and Belarus on Friday, adopting parts of the European Union’s latest package of measures over Moscow’s war in Ukraine, the government said on Friday.

The Federal…

By John Irish

PARIS, May 21 (Reuters) – France has drafted a U.N. Security Council resolution on setting up an international mission to restore movement in the Strait of Hormuz and could submit it if conditions are right, the foreign ministry said…

By Imad Creidi

DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia, May 22 (Reuters) – Iran’s publication of a new map asserting its control over the Strait of Hormuz risks extending an already punishing ordeal for thousands of mariners trapped on ships in the Gulf.

More than…

May 22 (Reuters) – The Royal International Air Tattoo, one of the world’s largest defence shows, has been cancelled due to military operations linked to the Iran war, it said on Friday.

RIAT had been scheduled for July 17-19 at RAF Fairford, an…

A Ukrainian strike collapsed a five-storey college dormitory in the Russian-occupied city of Starobilsk, killing four people and injuring at least 39 others. Rescue operations continue as more people are believed to be trapped under the…