Category: 3. Middle East

Development financing to Southeast Asia is expected to fall by more than $2bn in 2026 due to recent cutbacks by Western governments, according to a major Australian think tank.

The Sydney-based Lowy Institute predicted in a new report on Sunday…

Here are the key events on day 1,243 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Monday, July 21:

Fighting

• The Ministry of Defence in Moscow said Russian forces seized the village of Bila Hora in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region,…

Israeli forces killed at least 115 Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, most as they waited for desperately needed food aid in one of the deadliest single incidents involving aid seekers since May.

Dozens more Palestinians have been wounded,…

China, France, Germany, Russia and the UK are the remaining parties to a 2015 nuclear deal reached with Iran.

Iran, France, Germany and the United Kingdom will hold nuclear talks in Istanbul following warnings by the three European countries that…

Israel has bombed Gaza’s only Catholic church – the latest religious site hit in the war.

Hundreds of mosques were also damaged or destroyed, and cemeteries…

(Corrects misspelled word in June 17 story to ‘tallies’ in third last paragraph)

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 59 people, according to…

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran, Britain, France and Germany could hold talks next week on Tehran’s nuclear programme, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday, following warnings by the three European countries that failure to resume…

Japan’s Sanseito party wins big with ‘Japanese First’ push and anti-immigration rhetoric.

Japan’s far-right Sanseito party has emerged as a major winner in the country’s upper house election, riding a wave of nationalist rhetoric,…

Today is Sunday, July 20. It is day 653 of the war in Gaza, where at least 58,765 Palestinians have been killed.

It is day 653 of the war in Gaza, where at least 58,765 Palestinians have been killed.

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Mohammed Vall (@Md_Vall) Al…

Africa’s leaders have no one to blame but themselves if they cannot reach equitable trade deals with the United States,…