Category: 3. Middle East

Known for sweeping black-and-white photography that captured the natural world and marginalised communities, Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado has passed away at age 81.

His death was confirmed on Friday by the nonprofit he and his wife…

The deputy permanent representative of Palestine to the UN on Friday called on the international community to “dare and do what is necessary” to stop the genocide in the Gaza Strip, urging immediate action to…

Abu Dhabi’s IMI will take a minority stake in the company of no more than 15 percent.

A consortium led by US investment firm RedBird Capital Partners has agreed to buy the publisher of the United Kingdom’s 170-year-old Daily Telegraph…

At least 53,822 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Friday, Anadolu reports.

A ministry statement said that 60 bodies were brought to hospitals in…

It was the second time in one day that the FTC pulled out of litigation begun during the Biden administration.

The Republican-controlled Federal Trade Commission is abandoning a Biden-era effort to block Microsoft’s purchase of Call of Duty…

A new law, championed by President Nayib Bukele, is seen by advocates as an effort to stifle dissent in El Salvador.

Human rights groups, politicians and experts have sharply criticised a law approved by El Salvador’s Congress as a censorship…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says each side exchanged 390 detainees, with more to come over several days.

Russia and Ukraine say that they have swapped hundreds of prisoners in the first phase of a major exchange that was agreed at

“One of the guards came up to me and asked if I was there to save Gaza’s children, then he punched me in the stomach,” Alon-Lee Green said, recounting his experience in an Israeli prison this week.

Green and eight others were arrested on…