Category: 3. Middle East

Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated outside a recruitment base near Tel Aviv on Monday against compulsory military service, Anadolu Agency reports.

According to the public broadcaster, KAN, the protest took…

Catholic cardinals agreed on Monday to begin a conclave on May 7 to elect a new pope, and highlighted clerical sexual abuse as one of the key challenges facing Pope Francis’s successor.

Cardinals under the age of 80 will meet in the Sistine Chapel…

Three teenagers were today convicted in Sweden of being involved in a shooting attack on an office of Israeli arms contractor Elbit Systems ESLT.TA in Gothenburg last year, Reuters reports.

A fourth boy, who was…

Catholic cardinals agreed on Monday to begin a conclave on May 7 to elect a new pope, and highlighted clerical sexual abuse as one of the key challenges facing Pope Francis’s successor.

So-called “Princes of the Church” under the age of 80 will…

The person accused of fatally stabbing a Muslim while praying at a mosque near Ales in southern France has surrendered to authorities in Pistoia, Italy, Anadolu Agency reports.

Olivier H., who had been wanted since…

Former US National Security Adviser during the Biden administration, Jake Sullivan, told the ABC network yesterday that if Donald Trump signs a nuclear agreement with Iran, it will have similar features to the Joint…

The Spanish and Portuguese governments have convened emergency cabinet meetings as the causes of the outage remain unknown.

Spain, Portugal and parts of southwestern France have been hit by a widespread power blackout that paralysed public…

UN and Palestinian representatives at the International Court of Justice accused Israel of breaking international law by refusing to let aid into Gaza, on the first day of hearings about Israel’s obligations to…

Corpses covered in dust and debris were scattered in the wreckage of a detention centre for African migrants in Yemen, after what Houthi-controlled television described on Monday as a US air strike that killed 68…

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Paris to protest against Islamophobia after a Muslim man was stabbed to death at a mosque in southern France. Video has emerged showing the alleged attacker before the crime. French politicians…