Category: 3. Middle East

Legislation likely to eventually pass as polls say 90 percent of French in favour of laws that give people with terminal diseases the right to die.

France’s lower house of parliament has approved a right-to-die bill in the first reading, taking…

The Spanish parliament decided Tuesday to accelerate the passage of an arms embargo bill against Israel, according to media reports, Anadolu Agency said.

The Sumar, Podemos, Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), Basque…

In punishing midday heat, thousands of Palestinians have clambered over fences and pushed through packed crowds to reach life-saving supplies, laying bare the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe inflicted on Gaza by Israel’s three-month…

King Charles III has delivered a rare royal speech from Canada’s Parliament, emphasising the country’s sovereignty in a new era of “dangerous and uncertain” times.

The so-called “Speech from the Throne” on Tuesday was historic. It…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday held a phone call with King Abdullah II of Jordan to discuss escalating violence in Gaza, European support for Palestinian civilians, and the strengthening of bilateral ties between…

Ward Khalil emerges from the blaze alive, but her mother and two of her siblings are killed in Israeli air attack.

Ward Khalil stares at the camera, her eyes barely focusing as she recalls the horrors of what she experienced.

“When I woke up, I…

Thousands of Palestinians rushed into a new aid distribution centre run by a US-backed group in southern Gaza on Tuesday, AFP journalists reported, leading to chaotic scenes as Israel implemented a new distribution system.

The incident in Rafah…

Israel has received 940 aircraft and vessels loaded with US weapons and military equipment since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, Anadolu reports.

“The 800th aircraft…

Chaos erupted in Rafah as thousands of desperate Palestinians swarmed a new aid distribution site, set up by the controversial US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Live ammunition was fired to disperse the large crowds.