Category: 3. Middle East

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Entire villages have been destroyed by an earthquake in Afghanistan that has killed more than 800 people and injured thousands. Rescuers are trying to access remote areas where people are trapped under the rubble.

By Ali Sawafta and Nuha Sharaf

KFAR MALIK, West Bank/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are facing severe water shortages that they say are being driven by increasing attacks on scarce water sources by extremist…

Thamindri de Silva, the National Director for World Vision Afghanistan, explains why it’s difficult for response teams to reach the area affected by the…

By Ezgi Erkoyun

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -In a brightly lit treatment room at a private hospital in Istanbul, doctor Erdal Dilekci makes dozens of small, quick incisions on a patient’s back as part of a centuries-old therapy known as wet cupping.

The…

Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, increased security measures on Sunday around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz, following threats of revenge issued by Yemen’s Houthi…

A senior Houthi military leader vowed on Sunday evening to deliver a “harsh response” against Israel, following what he described as a “heinous crime” referring to the Israeli airstrike that targeted the head…

Tunisia’s brutalist landmark the Hotel du Lac — a 1970s postcard icon said to have inspired a desert-roving vehicle in “Star Wars” — is being demolished, sparking calls from architects, historians and activists to save it.

Built by Italian…

Fierce Mediterranean winds forced a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists, including environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, to return to Barcelona, organisers said on Monday.

Around 20 vessels…