Category: 3. Middle East

Report comes as US uses claims of Chinese meddling to push for control over strategic waterway.

Auditors in Panama have reported that the Hong Kong-based owner of key Panama Canal ports has violated the terms of its contract.

Comptroller-General…

On March 16, a fire tore through an improvised nightclub inside an abandoned carpet factory in Kocani, North Macedonia, killing 59 young people and injuring more than 150.

In Kocani, a town of fewer than 25,000 people, the loss is profound – a…

President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on more than 180 trading partners of the United States last week.

He described these as “reciprocal tariffs” against countries that impose heavy duties on US imports, aimed at rebalancing a…

China and the United States are locked in an escalating war of words backed by threats of new tariffs before key deadlines that are threatening to plunge an already unsettled global economy into an even deeper crisis.

US President Donald…

French President Emmanuel Macron visited Egypt’s port city of El-Arish on Tuesday, a key transit point for Gaza-bound aid, to call on Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian access to the war-battered Palestinian territory.

An AFP journalist…

The spacecraft with two Russian and one American astronaut took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

A Russian rocket carrying a crew from the United States and Russia has docked with the International Space Station (ISS).

The Soyuz…

Martin Griffiths, the executive director of Mediation Group Intl, discusses the lack of international condemnation and pressure on Israel to stop…

The world produced more than 40 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources for the first time since World War II last year, a new report from a global energy think tank says.

Staggering growth in solar generation has led the charge,…