Category: 3. Middle East

By John Irish and Michel Rose

PARIS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that France would become the first Western member of the United Nations Security Council to recognise a Palestinian state in September has caused diplomatic…

Another Palestinian infant died Friday at the Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, after her frail body succumbed to hunger, a medical source told Anadolu.

She was left to face famine without milk under…

On November 29, 1972, a fire broke out in the high-rise Rault Center, in downtown New Orleans. As firefighters struggled to reach the blaze and television cameras rolled, five women trapped in a beauty salon on the 15th floor had to make an…

US Sen. Bernie Sanders demanded the US end support for Israel’s “illegal war” in the Gaza Strip, with mass starvation and civilian casualties, Anadolu reports.

“After 21 months of brutal war, the Netanyahu…

The charity says the deaths were caused due to funding cuts by international donors amid insecurity in northern Nigeria.

At least 652 children have died from malnutrition in the Nigerian state of Katsina in the first six months of 2025, according…

Protesters carry portraits of political prisoners and a cage that organisers said represented the state of political life in the country.

Hundreds of Tunisian activists have protested against President Kais Saied, calling his rule since 2021 an…

Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia – Explosions reverberated in the distance along the Thai-Cambodia border, as a Cambodian soldier waited his turn for surgery to remove shrapnel embedded in his body from a Thai artillery shell.

The soldier said he was…

MILAN (Reuters) -Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday that recognising the State of Palestine before it is established could be counterproductive.

“I am very much in favour of the State of Palestine but I am not in favour of…

When Donald Trump re-won the United States presidency in last year’s election, the Dumfries and Galloway News in Scotland greeted the news with this headline: “South West Scotland Hotelier Becomes President Of America For Second Time”.

That…