Category: 3. Middle East

India’s lower house of parliament has passed a controversial bill moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim endowments worth more than $14bn.

The waqf bill would add non-Muslims to…

President Donald Trump has announced a series of sweeping tariffs against trade partners, describing April 2 as “Liberation Day” and arguing that the punitive steps would bring industry and jobs back to the United States by fighting against…

Nathan Ordaz’s second-half goal was enough for Los Angeles FC to prevail against Lionel Messi and Inter Miami in their first-leg quarterfinal matchup.

Los Angeles FC (LAFC) sent Lionel Messi and Inter Miami spinning to their first defeat of the…

Quetta, Pakistan — On the cold morning of March 11, Saad Qamar wore his white and blue uniform, said goodbye to his parents and left his home at 7:30am (06:30 GMT) for the Pakistan Railways loco-shed half a kilometre away.

The 31-year-old…

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing what experts say is the biggest threat to his rule yet as a succession battle erupts ahead of general elections scheduled for 2028.

Recent manoeuvrings by the president and his supporters to…

These are the key events on day 1,134 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

These are the key events from Wednesday, April 2:

Fighting

• One person was killed and two others injured in a Russian overnight attack on southeast Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region,…

War has left Gaza littered with unexploded bombs that will take years to clear, with children drawn to metal casings maimed or even killed when they try to pick them up, a demining expert said.

Nicholas Orr, a former UK military deminer, told AFP…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Budapest early Thursday on his first trip to Europe since 2023 and in defiance of the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s arrest warrant against him.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban…

Hungary’s long-standing ties with Israel will be on display when its nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban receives Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu in Budapest on Thursday — despite the latter being wanted under an International Criminal…

Hungary on Thursday said it will quit the International Criminal Court, just as Prime Minister Viktor Orban hosted his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the tribunal has accused of war crimes in Gaza.

The government announcement to…