Category: 3. Middle East

Iranian diplomats met counterparts from Germany, Britain and France on Friday for renewed nuclear talks, amid warnings that the three European powers could trigger “snapback” sanctions outlined under the 2015 deal.

The meeting in Istanbul was the…

In an unprecedented joint appeal, four of the world’s leading news agencies have warned that their Palestinian journalists in Gaza are now facing death by Israel’s policy of mass starvation.

The BBC, Agence…

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany is not planning to recognise a Palestinian state in the short term and said its priority now is to make “long-overdue progress” towards a two-state solution, a German government spokesperson said on Friday.

“Israel’s…

The United Nationd rights chief on Friday slammed Britain’s ban on activist group Palestine Action as a “disturbing” misuse of UK counter-terrorism legislation and urged the government to rescind its move.

“The decision appears disproportionate…

A former cleaner claims he was forced to bury the bodies of hundreds of women and girls, on the orders of supervisors at one of southern India’s most revered temples. As Soraya Lennie explains, the case has shocked the country and…

President Donald Trump’s administration dished out a cold burn to Trump’s ice-cream-loving predecessor, Joe Biden, saying he led the US ice cream industry down an economic rocky road.

“America had a trade surplus in ice cream in 2020 under…

Egypt’s leading Islamic authority, Al-Azhar, came under criticism this week after it abruptly removed a strongly worded statement condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza from its official social media accounts,…

By Olivia Le Poidevin

GENEVA (Reuters) -The main hospital in the southern Syrian city of Sweida is overwhelmed with trauma patients and working without adequate power or water after the local Druze minority clashed almost two weeks ago with…

In Porciuncula, Brazil, small-scale coffee farmer Jose Natal da Silva is losing sleep – not just to protect his arabica crops from pests, but over fears raised by a new 50% United States tariff on Brazilian goods announced by President Donald…

An internal US government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas of the US-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the US give for…