Category: 3. Middle East

US freezes Judge Moraes’s assets, citing role in arbitrary detentions, censorship, and Bolsonaro-related prosecutions.

The US Department of the Treasury has said it was imposing sanctions on Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes…

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The decision also drew dissent from two of the central bank’s governors, both appointees of US President Donald Trump, a first in more than 30 years.

Despite pressure from the White House, the United States Federal Reserve will…

The decision came after the country’s military chief sent a letter to Trump praising his ‘strong leadership’.

The United Nations’s top expert on Myanmar has sharply criticised the United States for lifting sanctions on allies of the…

The speaker of Israel’s Knesset told the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Geneva that Europe is becoming “more and more similar to the Middle East” and London or Paris should therefore be the site of a Palestinian state….

Mauritian rider Kim Le Court has made history for Africa by winning a stage at the women’s Tour de France.

Mauritian Kim Le Court became the first African to win a stage on the women’s Tour de France..

It was a case of double celebration for…

Rescuers had hoped to find the double Olympic gold medallist on the 6,096-metre (20,000-foot) Laila Peak in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountains.

German biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier has died on a mountain in northern Pakistan after a climbing…

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced on Wednesday what it called its most extensive set of Iran-related sanctions since 2018, targeting a “vast shipping empire” involved in transporting oil and petroleum products from Iran and…

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that calls for the Iran-aligned militant group’s disarmament served only Israel, as the United States ramps up pressure for steps to remove its arsenal.

“Those who…

, (Reuters) -Britain has said it will recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel takes steps including alleviating the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and committing to a long-term peace process that delivers a two-state…