Category: 3. Middle East

Governor Gavin Newsom takes combative stance against Trump, urges other Democratic leaders to ‘punch back’.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has said that the country’s most populous state will promote a partisan redistricting scheme aimed…

Israeli authorities froze all bank accounts of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem over a long-standing property tax dispute, escalating tensions with Christian institutions in the occupied city, local media…

“Suleiman lost his football career, and football lost Suleiman.” The family of Palestinian football icon Suleiman al-Obaid mourn his loss after he was killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza.

President Trump says the Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin could “set the table” for trilateral talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He denied the meeting rewarded Putin, as critics warned it could…

United States President Donald Trump has marked the 90th anniversary of Social Security with a defence of his administration’s policies toward the programme — and attacks on his Democratic rivals.

On Thursday, Trump signed a presidential…

By Olivia Le Poidevin and Emma Farge

GENEVA (Reuters) -Talks to create the world’s first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic pollution hung in the balance late on Thursday as countries scrambled to bridge deep divisions over the extent of…

A total of 22,000 cases registered in province in 2023; in first five months of 2024, figure had already reached 17,000.

Healthcare providers in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) treated more than 17,000 victims of sexual…

US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he “would like to see” Israel allow international journalists to report from the besieged Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports.

Since October 2023, Israel has barred…