Category: 3. Middle East

Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former chief of staff and close aide, is now at the centre of the country’s biggest corruption investigation since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.

Anticorruption authorities…

Groups advocating for freedom of the news media have called for the release of two journalists who have been jailed in the Maldives for violating a gag order banning public discussion of a documentary alleging an affair between President Mohamed…

Optimism surrounding another set of peace proposals aimed at shaping a peace deal between Iran and the United States quickly faded this week as the two sides appeared to instead pull further apart, digging in and insisting that the other…

UN rights chief ‘shocked’ by reports that Nigerian and Chadian forces killed more than 100 civilians and seeks investigations.

The United Nations human rights chief has demanded independent investigations…

DUBAI, May 13 (Reuters) – A unit of state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said on Wednesday that one of its tankers struck by Iranian drones last week has leaked a small amount of fuel off the coast of Oman, underscoring the ecological risks…

By Alistair Smout

LONDON, May 13 (Reuters) – Britain will legislate to strengthen its ability to deal with proxies for malign state actors, taking powers to make it possible to ban them in light of increased activity in Britain and a rise in…

Israel has demolished 50 shops in al-Eizariya overnight, erasing the livelihoods of more than 200 families despite legal appeals to Israel’s Supreme Court.

Israel has earmarked a swath of land for a settlement corridor that would…

Residents of the Cite Soleil neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince have taken to the streets to demand government protection after a new surge of gang violence forced hundreds of people to flee their homes over the…

Russia has test-fired a new weapon that President Putin has described as the world’s ‘most powerful’ missile.

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