Category: 3. Middle East

The amendment comes after police investigated more than 100 women, including some who had natural miscarriages.

British parliamentarians have voted to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales after concerns sparked by the prosecution of women…

UN agency IOM says 743 people have died so far this year attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.

At least 60 refugees and migrants are feared missing and drowned at sea after two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, the International…

Russia said on Tuesday that Israel’s attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran are pushing the world toward a “nuclear catastrophe,” Anadolu reports.

The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the…

When Iranian missiles began raining down on Israel, many residents scrambled for cover. Sirens wailed across the country as people rushed into bomb shelters.

But for some Palestinian citizens of Israel – two million people, or roughly 21…

Tel Aviv, Israel – For the fourth night in a row, missiles have hit Israeli cities. Iran’s retaliatory strikes, triggered by Israeli attacks, saw people sheltering in stairwells and bomb shelters as the scale of the damage and Iranian rockets…

Here’s where things stand on Monday, June 17:

Fighting

• Several explosions rocked areas across Iran, including its central and western provinces as well as the densely populated capital Tehran, as Israel stepped up bombardment.
• The Israeli…

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he wanted a return to a tariff-free agreement for civil aviation.

Airbus has struck a deal with Vietnamese budget airline Vietjet for up to 150 single-aisle jets at the Paris Air Show as the aviation…