Category: 3. Middle East

US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will be in Oman for breakthrough talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme this weekend.

Here are short profiles of the two negotiators:

– Witkoff: real estate to world stage…

Sudan told the International Court of Justice on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates was the “driving force” behind what it called a genocide in Darfur via its alleged support for rebels fighting the Sudanese army.

Khartoum has dragged the UAE…

ANKARA — Turkish police on Thursday detained two prominent journalists — Timur Soykan and Murat Agirel — in dawn raids amid a crackdown on dissent that accelerated following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and the ensuing…

Statement comes after Zelenskyy’s claims that Beijing is aware of Chinese recruits in Russia’s military.

China has issued an apparent rebuke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after he alleged that Beijing is aware its citizens are…

A steep 84 percent tariff on all United States goods entering China has kicked in, ratcheting up a trade war with Washington while calling for a dialogue “on the basis of mutual respect and equality”.

The new rate – a 50 percent hike on…

The frontrunner in opinion polls promises to resuscitate economy after political turmoil if he wins the June 3 presidential vote.

South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has declared his bid for the presidency, promising to fix inequality and…

One of the Strip’s largest universities, the Islamic University of Gaza in Gaza City had about 17,000 students before the war, studying everything from medicine and chemistry to literature and commerce. More than 60 percent of the students were…

Paul Chambers awaits trial on charges under Thailand’s lese-majeste laws, which can lead to up to 15 years in prison.

Paul Chambers, an American lecturer at Thailand’s Naresuan University arrested over accusations of breaking Thailand’s