Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu testified Monday in a probe involving alleged payments from Qatar to some of his aides, an investigation he denounced as politically motivated.
Israeli police arrested the prime minister’s two…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Morocco's economic growth slows as drought, locusts deplete farmland
The North African country is grappling with a sixth year of drought, the longest in Morocco’s modern history.
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In photos: Muslims celebrate Eid el-Fitr across the Middle East
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, Turkey and Lebanon celebrated the first day of Eid al-Fitr on Sunday.
Cairo came to a near halt on Monday as Egyptians gathered to perform prayers….
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Iran’s IRGC says US troops in ‘glass room’ after Trump threat: What to know
A top commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened US forces in the region on Monday, the latest in a series of escalatory remarks as President Donald Trump seeks to push the country toward a new nuclear deal.
The head…
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Israel’s excuse for killing aid workers “a very bare assertion”
Human rights lawyer Geoffrey Nice says Israel’s claim that Hamas used ambulances as camouflage lacks evidence.
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Children in Gaza among Palestinians killed on Eid
Palestinian children were dressed in shrouds covering their new clothes after Israeli bombing in Gaza killed them on Eid
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Meta profits as ads promote illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Facebook has platformed more than 100 paid advertisements promoting illegal settlements and far-right settler activity in the occupied West Bank, an Al Jazeera investigation has found, raising concerns that the social media giant is profiting…
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Ocean economy needs protection against wave of threats: OECD | International Trade News
The ocean economy doubled between 1995 and 2020, but future growth could be curtailed by multiple threats.
The global ocean economy is at risk of major disruption without increased protection, according to the Organisation for Economic…
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Video: Le Pen sentence ‘as bad as it could get’ says Al Jazeera reporter
Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler was at the court in Paris where Marine Le Pen was given jail time for embezzling EU funds.
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Doctors Without Borders: Treating millions while global aid falls apart | Humanitarian Crises
Christopher Lockyear on war, racism allegations, and front-line aid workers.
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, provides more than 16 million medical consultations every year, often in the world’s most dangerous places….
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