Category: 3. Middle East

Cuba faced worsening nationwide disruption after officials say the country had completely run out of diesel and fuel oil, triggering severe blackouts and a partial collapse of the national power grid. Residents in Havana endured 22-hour…

Uri Weltmann was tense. He’s the national field director for Standing Together, an organisation of Jewish and Palestinian peace activists, who had gathered to resist the tens of thousands of far-right Jewish marchers heading for occupied East…

A developer from the occupied West Bank is turning a 75-year-old Palestinian folk tale into a video game, and the fight to make it mirrors the story inside it. Dreams on a Pillow follows a mother displaced during the 1948 Nakba. We spoke…

Israeli nationalists swept through the narrow streets of Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday, chanting “Death to Arabs” and “May your villages burn” during the annual Jerusalem Day march, while many Palestinian residents remained barricaded…

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called on fellow BRICS nations to condemn what he called violations of international law by the United States and Israel, as the war in the Middle East and the…

PM sworn in and 14 ​ministers approved ⁠in new government though parliament fails to reach consensus on several posts.

Iraq’s new Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has been ⁠sworn in with only a partial cabinet…

Large parts of eastern Cuba were plunged into darkness in the latest round of nationwide electricity shutdowns.

Cuba has been hit by worsening power outages after the island’s communist government said fuel reserves had run out, as rare protests…

By Alexander Cornwell

JERUSALEM, May 14 (Reuters) – Thousands of Israeli nationalists marched on Thursday through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s walled Old City under heavy security, in an annual event marking Israel’s capture of the city’s…

The International Monetary Fund warned on Thursday that continuing disruptions due to the Iran war meant its global economic outlook was moving towards an “adverse” scenario, with growth pared down and greater risks to inflation.

Last month, the…

The UN-backed agreement will see the ICRC facilitate the exchange of hundreds of detainees from both sides.

Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the Houthi group have signed a United Nations-backed…