Category: 3. Middle East

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Monday launched a new sanctions regime targeting people-smuggling gangs and their enablers in what the government said was the first move of its kind globally.

The United Kingdom will be able to freeze assets, impose…

(Reuters) -The World Health Organization said that its staff residence and main warehouse in Gazan city of Deir al-Balah was attacked thrice on Monday.

Two WHO staff and two family members were detained, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO…

The move gives US Treasury a chance to recommend replacement, at time that US President Donald Trump is reshaping global economy.

Gita Gopinath, the No. 2 official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will leave her post at the end of August…

Zohran Mamdani campaigned for the Democratic nomination for New York mayor on the promise that he would make the largest city in the United States an affordable one.

The 33-year-old Democratic socialist proposed plans that would transform the…

The countries also denounced Israel’s aid delivery model in Gaza, saying it ‘deprives Palestinians of human dignity’.

More than two dozen countries have called for an immediate end to the war on Gaza, saying that suffering there had…

When United States President Donald Trump unveiled his steep “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries in April, economists issued warnings of catastrophic economic harm.

So far, their fears have not materialised.

The US economy – the…

The AFP journalists’ association on Monday warned that journalists working with the news agency in the Gaza Strip are facing extreme food shortages and risk starving amid the ongoing Israeli blockade of aid delivery…

The Shadowserver Foundation and Eye Security would not disclose which firms were affected.

A sweeping cyber espionage operation targeting Microsoft server software has compromised about 100 different organisations over the weekend.

Two of the…