Category: 3. Middle East

Palestinian officials have condemned Israeli threats against imprisoned leader Marwan Barghouti, as an ”unprecedented provocation.” National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was filmed making the comments after what was described…

By Alexander Cornwell

TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Israel’s far-right national security minister visited prominent Palestinian Marwan Barghouti in jail and told him “you will not win”, a video showed on Friday, a day after another hardline cabinet member…

“Horrified” British MPs have urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to “immediately expel” Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, citing the UK’s binding legal obligations under the Genocide Convention…

US President Donald Trump is meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, but the White House is signalling that major agreements are unlikely. Trump gives the talks a 25 percent chance of failure, while European Union leaders and…

The cutting down of an olive tree planted in memory of a young French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006 stirred outrage in France on Friday, with President Emmanuel Macron vowing punishment over an act of antisemitic “hatred”.

Politicians…

Swedish international striker Alexander Isak has been training away from his Newcastle colleagues amid Liverpool link.

Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe admits striker Alexander Isak has control of his future with the club as Liverpool remain…

Rescuers scoured debris in a remote village in Indian-administered Kashmir searching for missing residents on Friday after devastating flash floods triggered by the previous day’s torrential downpour killed at least 60 people, according to…

Group’s leader urges government ‘not to hand over the country to an insatiable Israeli aggressor or an American tyrant’.

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has accused Lebanon’s government of “handing” the country to Israel by pushing for the…

The Lebanese group Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem declared on Friday that the party will not hand over its weapons as long as Israel continues to exist.

Qassem made the statement in a televised address…

This week’s visit to Lebanon of senior Iranian politician Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, is seen as an attempt to smooth any feathers ruffled by rhetoric from Tehran about Hezbollah’s disarmament.

In early…