Category: 3. Middle East

Nadim Bawalsa is a Palestinian historian whose  book, Transnational Palestine, looks at the early Palestinian communities in Latin…

Boasting the equivalent weight of nine elephants, Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis had enough unique features to be considered a new species.

Scientists have identified the remains of a massive new species of dinosaur…

Striker jeered by own fans as he came off bench in return from injury in 2-0 La Liga win ​over Real Oviedo.

Real Madrid striker Kylian Mbappe says coach Alvaro Arbeloa told him he was the “fourth forward”…

On May 15, Palestinians across historic Palestine and the diaspora commemorate the ‘Nakba’ or the ‘catastrophe’ of 1948. Al Jazeera’s Hala Al Shami explains how Zionist militias tore through Palestinian society and displaced…

Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba – Arabic for “catastrophe” – a term that refers to the mass expulsion and flight of some 750,000 Palestinians from their homes…

Monaco forward Takumi Minamino also misses out due to injury, but ex-Arsenal defender Takehiro Tomiyasu makes the cut.

Injured Brighton winger Kaoru Mitoma has been left out of Japan’s World Cup squad in a…

Rows of green tobacco plants stretched towards the bush in a vast field of a crop that has rebounded to record levels in Zimbabwe, driven largely by smallholders contracted to Chinese firms.

A few dozen aspiring tobacco farmers inspected the broad…

Endangered Egyptian vultures, with their vivid yellow face and white plumes, would usually be nesting across the Balkans in their dozens by April.

But experts tracking the rare birds say local teams have struggled to find more than a handful in…

When European Jewish settlers embarked on brutal ethnic cleansing to establish Israel in 1948, they thought the Palestinian population would be the least of their problems. In fact, Zionist leaders like David Ben-Gurion believed that “the…

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The US and Chinese leaders agreed during talks in Beijing that the Strait of Hormuz should remain open to ensure global energy supplies.

United States President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi…