Category: 3. Middle East

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh calls for probe into deadly road accident a week after dozens killed in Ha Long Bay boat disaster.

Ten passengers have been killed, including two children, after a tour bus crashed in central Vietnam,…

Here are the key events on day 1,248 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Saturday, July 26:

Fighting

• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces were facing fierce fighting around the city of Pokrovsk in…

US president says chances of reaching a trade deal with the EU are ’50-50′ ahead of his August 1 tariff deadline.

United States President Donald Trump has arrived in Scotland, where he is set to meet with European and British leaders for trade…

The entertainment company Paramount Global is expected to close its $8bn merger agreement with Skydance Media on August 7, a date that marks two weeks after the administration of President Donald Trump gave its approval.

On Friday, the two…

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, under pressure to recognise a Palestinian state, said he would do so only as part of a wider peace deal. His Labour-led government is facing growing calls to recognise a Palestinian state after France said…

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are pleading for help as more people have starved to death under Israel’s unrelenting blockade of the coastal enclave.

The Gaza Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday that local hospitals recorded nine new…

By Tarek Amara

TUNIS (Reuters) -Hundreds of Tunisian activists protested in the capital on Friday against President Kais Saied, denouncing his rule as an “authoritarian regime” that has turned the country into an “open-air prison”.

Under the…

Protesters banged pots and pans on Downing Street in London to denounce Gaza’s urgent hunger crisis. The protest follows reports that over 1,000 Palestinians were shot while queuing for food. Gaza’s Health Ministry says 122 people…

International reproductive rights groups slam the Trump administration’s decision as ‘cruel and ideologically driven’.

Washington, DC – The United States has confirmed reports that it will destroy reproductive health supplies previously…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday slammed the international community for turning a blind eye to widespread starvation in the Gaza Strip, calling it a “moral crisis that challenges the global conscience.”

“I cannot explain the level…