Category: 3. Middle East

Iranian authorities have dismissed a state television official and his executive assistant and filed lawsuits against eight other employees for insulting Sunnis and Saudi Arabia.

The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida…

From some of the world’s most powerful leaders to those on society’s margins whom Pope Francis always made a point to minister to, hundreds of thousands of people gathered at the Vatican for the funeral rites for the late pontiff.

US…

Meetings of the Israeli Security Cabinet revealed “major disagreements” between the political and the military ranks regarding the policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on the genocidal war…

Pope Francis has been laid to rest in Rome following solemn, hours-long funeral rites at St Peter’s Square in the Vatican, bringing to a close his sometimes turbulent 12-year leadership of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

The Argentinian…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) opened its office in Palestine back in 1994. Its website, which is no longer available, used to boast that since then, it has “helped four million Palestinians lead healthier and…

The United Nations confirmed on Friday that more than 480 civilians have been killed in North Darfur in western Sudan over the past two weeks, warning that the actual number could be much higher.

The Office of the UN…

The meeting during Pope Francis’s funeral was their first since an angry encounter in Washington, DC, in February.

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a “very productive” meeting in Rome, a White House…

Negotiations expected to centre on uranium enrichment begin in Oman as Trump expresses cautious optimism.

Iran and the United States have opened a third round of talks in Oman aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear activities, with discussions…

A team of scientists claims to have discovered a new colour that humans cannot see without the help of technology.

The researchers based in the United States said they were able to “experience” the colour, which they named “olo”, by…