Category: 3. Middle East

Collapsing to the ground, hands covering her eyes, Michelle Agyemang was overcome by the occasion. In a moment when England desperately needed a lifeline, the 19-year-old, whose surname fittingly means “saviour of the nation”, rose when it…

In 21 months of war in Gaza, the destruction and damage of 70 percent of buildings has buried the Palestinian territory under millions of tonnes of debris and plunged it into darkness, according to data from the UN and NASA analysed by AFP.

The…

Former prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, “issued an open order” to “use lethal weapons” on students protesting against her government’s policies last year and shoot “wherever they find them”, her secret phone call…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has underscored the urgent need to commence the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip as soon as a ceasefire agreement is reached between Israel and the Palestinian resistance…

The Israeli Knesset (parliament) voted Wednesday for a non-binding motion for the agenda to annex the occupied West Bank including the Jordan Valley.

The motion was backed by 71 members of the 120-seat assembly…

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece will deploy a salvage vessel in the Red Sea to assist in maritime accidents and protect seafarers and global shipping, the shipping minister said on Thursday, following attacks on two Greek vessels by Yemen’s Houthi…

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece has invited Libya’s internationally recognised government in Tripoli to start talks on demarcating exclusive economic zones in the Mediterranean Sea, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said late on Wednesday.

The move is…

Egypt has firmly rejected an Israeli proposal to relocate Palestinians in Gaza to what is being called a “humanitarian city” in the south of the Strip, warning that such a move could lead to serious escalation.

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Two Palestinian teenage boys have been killed by Israeli forces in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency, in the latest deadly violence in the territory continuing in tandem with…

We compare and contrast how Donald Trump stayed silent when Brazil’s leftist leader Lula da Silva was jailed in 2018, but has been loudly condemning the current prosecution of his far-right ally, former president Jair…