Category: 3. Middle East

Italy, Ireland and Spain have called on the EU to sanction Israel’s far-right national security minister, who posted a video showing detained activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla forced to their knees with hands bound.

A global outcry erupted…

The United States Department of Justice has introduced an “anti-weaponisation fund” that will be used to financially compensate people who claim they have been unfairly targeted by the federal government.

The fund, announced on Monday, is part…

All-time record Brazil scorer Neymar misses Santos draw with San Lorenzo in the Copa Sudamericana due to calf injury.

Neymar has suffered ‌a minor calf injury but is expected to recover in ⁠time to join…

DEIR QANOUN EN-NAHR, Lebanon, May 21 (Reuters) – Mourners gathered in a southern Lebanese town on Thursday to bury victims from an Israeli airstrike earlier this week that killed 14 people, the deadliest single bombing raid on Lebanon since the…

Nouakchott, Mauritania – Across a vast stretch of the Sahel and West Africa, armed groups are expanding their reach, military governments are replacing fragile democracies, and “counterterrorism” efforts continue to contend with armed…

Israel’s treatment of the detainees has been condemned by several countries, including key allies.

Israel has begun deporting the hundreds of activists abducted by Israeli forces who stormed a Gaza aid flotilla…

This week, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister,…

Independent filmmakers in Iran face a fresh wave of repression and extreme economic hardship because of the war, risking choking off a mainstay of world cinema, industry insiders say.

Despite heavy censorship and regular prosecutions, acclaimed…

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has posted a video of himself taunting foreign activists abducted from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla at a makeshift holding pen in Israel’s city of Ashdod.

The activists, abducted by…

This past weekend, international scholars and speakers invited to the Muslim Association of Canada’s (MAC) annual convention in Toronto reportedly faced extraordinary immigration scrutiny. MAC said many had their electronic travel…