Category: 3. Middle East

President Donald Trump is expected to apply sweeping tariffs on US imports on April 2, which he has called “liberation day”. But if US trade partners decide to hit back with tit-for-tat countermeasures, a global trade war will lift inflation…

Lava penetrates protective barriers near Grindavik, a fishing town on a southwestern peninsula also evacuated last year.

A volcano has erupted south of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, spewing lava and smoke in a fiery display that had earlier…

PM Orpo announces preemptive measures, while President Stubb engages in balancing act between Moscow and Washington.

Finland plans to leave the Ottawa convention that bans antipersonnel landmines, following similar moves by other neighbouring…

The Israeli military bombed a residential building in the suburbs of Lebanon’s capital Beirut, killing at least four people just days after an attack on the same area despite a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.

Kyiv working to maintain US support as Trump warned against Russian stalling on ceasefire deal.

Ukraine has said it is working with the United States towards a mutually acceptable deal on the country’s mineral resources.

Foreign Minister Andrii…

New video shows trapped survivors of the Myanmar earthquake calling for help from under the rubble of a destroyed building, before rescuers were able to get them out. A minute’s silence has been held for those who died in the quake.

United States President Donald Trump’s administration will review billions of dollars in federal funding for Harvard University amid an ongoing crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses.

This announcement comes amid similar…

Mandalay, Myanmar – Two years ago, as Cyclone Mocha whipped towards the western coast of Myanmar, packing wind speeds of some 280 kilometres per hour (175mph) and threatening disaster, the country’s military ruler Min Aung Hlaing appeared…

Nine Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) medics in ambulances, as well as some Civil Defence workers, went to help people in Rafah, Gaza, and disappeared on March 23 after coming under attack from Israeli forces.

What followed was a week of Israeli…

Paris, France – On Sunday, an opinion poll predicted that Marine Le Pen, the longtime leader of the French far right, would secure up to 37 percent of votes in the 2027 presidential election, more than 22 points higher than in 2022 and 10…