Category: 3. Middle East

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s delegation for a third round of peace talks with Russia has arrived in Istanbul, Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne reported on Wednesday, citing the foreign ministry spokesperson.

(Reporting by Yuliia Dysa, writing…

Sitting near a poster of Che Guevara inside his French prison cell before his release this week, pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah said the “struggle” kept him going during his four decades behind bars.

A court last week…

Sayfollah Musallet, a Palestinian American, was killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on July 11, just days before his 21st birthday. His death is one of nearly 1,000 killings involving settlers this year, and his US citizenship…

A senior UN official said Wednesday that 294 Palestinians have been killed by Israel while attempting to collect humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip since June 30, Anadolu reports.

“I brief you today as intensive…

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has launched a new investigation against Harvard University, this time targeted at an exchange programme that allows foreign scholars to visit the elite school.

Secretary of State Marco…

(Reuters) -Israel’s President Isaac Herzog visited the Gaza strip on Wednesday and told soldiers that there were “intensive negotiations” about returning the hostages in Gaza, adding that he hopes that they will soon “hear good news”, a statement…

Italian far-right Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is facing criticism from opposition parties after he accepted the “Best friend of Israel in Italy” award, Italian news agency ANSA reported, Anadolu…

By Julien Pretot

DIEULEFIT, France (Reuters) -Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists waved flags and unfurled banners on Wednesday as the Tour de France peloton rode through Dieulefit, a southeastern French town honoured as a “Town of the Just” for…

Governing party says it has downgraded ties with Cambodia after a landmine incident that injured a Thai soldier.

Thailand has recalled its ambassador to Cambodia and will expel Cambodia’s ambassador, the governing Pheu Thai Party said, following…

ANKARA — Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler met Wednesday with Saddam Hifter, commander of the Libyan National Army’s ground forces, as contacts deepen between Ankara and Benghazi, which hosts a rival administration to the Ankara-backed…