Category: 3. Middle East

By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -\U.S. President Donald Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a deadly Israeli strike on Gaza’s sole Catholic Church, the White House said on Thursday, adding…

The rights group Cristosal says it has evacuated staff from El Salvador amid pressure from President Nayib Bukele.

The El Salvador human rights and anti-corruption watchdog Cristosal says it has relocated its operations outside the country, as the…

(Reuters) -A Russian crew member of a Greek cargo ship sunk by Houthi militants is undergoing treatment in Yemen, Russia’s state RIA news agency said on Thursday, quoting a source.

RIA identified the Russian mariner as Aleksei Galaktionov, one of…

By Humeyra Pamuk

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States did not support recent Israeli strikes on Syria, the State Department said on Thursday, adding that Washington made clear its displeasure after tensions escalated and worked quickly to stop…

Brazilian president says that Donald Trump was elected to lead the US, not to be ‘the emperor of the world’.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that his country will not take instructions from the United States after US…

BEIRUT (Reuters) -One elderly man had been shot in the head in his living room. Another in his bedroom. The body of a woman lay in the street. After days of bloodshed in Syria’s Druze city of Sweida, survivors emerged on Thursday to collect and…

Following her termination as a federal prosecutor, Maurene Comey called on her colleagues to condemn ‘abuses of power’.

Maurene Comey — the daughter of James Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) — has…

Foreign minister says Slovenia acted after EU foreign ministers failed to agree on joint action against Israel.

Slovenia has banned far-right Israeli cabinet ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country.

Foreign…