Category: 3. Middle East

Police say Brand faces one count of rape, one of indecent assault, one of oral rape and two of sexual assault.

British comedian Russell Brand has been charged with several counts of sexual assault in the United Kingdom.

Brand, once one of…

On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump unveiled his new global tariff plan, imposing a 10% tariff on all imports, and…

“And as I speak, this is the sound of huge explosions.” Israeli strikes could be heard as Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported live from Gaza on the many ways Israel is killing Palestinians and instilling the sense that “death is…

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In justifying his latest tariffs announcement, President Donald Trump complains of unfair trade deficits, saying the US has been “looted, pillaged, raped, plundered” by other countries for decades.

He has accused China of “bleeding us…

Beijing says it will impose an additional 34 percent tax on US goods from next week in retaliation for Washington’s tariffs.

China has announced a slew of countermeasures against tariffs imposed by United States President Donald Trump,…

The amendments to a 1995 law governing waqf endowments would add non-Muslims to boards that manage such properties.

India’s main opposition party says it will challenge a recently passed bill that overhauls laws governing Muslim religious…

Palestinians have long been the world’s forgotten people.

The dreadful deprivations, starvation, trauma, forced marches, massacres, and countless other outrages they have endured for generation after generation no longer provoke shock or much…

The governor of Lebanon’s central bank, Karim Souaid, took office on Friday, pledging to advance key reforms demanded by international creditors to unlock bailout funds as the country reels from a years-long financial crisis.

Souaid, an asset…