Category: 3. Middle East

By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke

BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under pressure to take a firmer stance towards Israel, with members of his own coalition calling for Berlin to join a statement by dozens of Western nations…

A severe heatwave sweeping Iran has disrupted water and electricity supplies in much of the country, with reservoir levels falling to their lowest in a century, state media said Tuesday.

Extreme temperatures, which began on Friday, are expected to…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that he will meet his Chinese counterpart next week and discuss what is likely to be an extension of an August 12 deadline for higher tariffs.

Bessent told Fox Business…

On Monday, 28 countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, and numerous European nations, issued a joint statement calling on Israel that the war on Gaza “must end now”, marking the latest example of intensifying criticism from Israel’s…

We are delighted to unveil the shortlist for the 2025 Palestine Book Awards, celebrating outstanding literary and scholarly works that illuminate Palestinian history, culture, identity, and resilience. This year saw a…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -A six-week-old infant and three other children have died of starvation in Gaza in the past 24 hours,local health officials said, with malnutrition and starvation now killing Palestinians faster than at…

When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbour 10 years ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest – tall stands of staghorns branched into yellow antlers, plate corals layered like canopies,…

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DUBAI (Reuters) – The intelligence unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has warned Iranian citizens of an increase in recruitment attempts by enemy intelligence agencies, state…

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, has described the situation in Gaza as “horrific”, saying that such levels of starvation have not been witnessed in modern history.

In remarks made…

Tehran, Iran – The wave of Afghan refugees and migrants being sent back from Iran has not stopped, with more than 410,000 being pushed out since the end of the 12-day war with Israel on June 24.

More than 1.5 million Afghan refugees and…