Category: 3. Middle East

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump was presiding over a policy meeting on the Gaza war on Wednesday with input from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Trump Middle East envoy Jared Kushner, a senior…

(Reuters) -All United Nations Security Council members, except the United States, on Wednesday said the famine in Gaza was a “manmade crisis” and warned that the use of starvation as a weapon of war is banned under international humanitarian…

UN officials and aid agencies have warned that famine in Gaza is now a reality, with children increasingly dying of hunger as Israel’s siege and bombardment continue to block essential, life-saving aid.

In a…

The Smithsonian museums are now the focus of a review ordered by United States President Donald Trump, targeting exhibits on slavery, immigration and LGBTQ history. The White House told The Take that taxpayer money should not fund displays that…

Protesters decry Tom Barrack visit amid Hezbollah disarmament push, warning to journalists not to act ‘animalistic’.

US envoy Tom Barrack has cut his visit to southern Lebanon short, according to the Lebanese…

The administration of President Donald Trump has announced it plans to take control of Union Station, a major transportation hub in the United States capital of Washington, DC.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy delivered the announcement on…

By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Israel’s military has concluded six Hamas members were killed in a strike on Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea told the…

At least two children were killed and more than a dozen others injured in a mass shooting at a Catholic school in the US city of Minneapolis. A church service was underway when police say a shooter began firing through the windows.

By Jana Choukeir

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hundreds of people protested in southern Lebanon on Wednesday against a planned visit by U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack, a day after the envoy stirred anger in the country by publicly scolding Lebanese reporters….

Israel on Wednesday called on UN-backed hunger monitor the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) to immediately retract a report which determined that famine was present in parts of Gaza.

“Israel demands that the IPC will…