Category: 3. Middle East

Pope Francis made his final public appearance on Easter Sunday, a day before his death. Too weak to give his full traditional Easter message, the 88-year-old briefly appeared on St Peter’s Basilica balcony to greet the crowd.

Pope Francis died at age 88 after suffering a prolonged illness, the Vatican announced on Monday.

He suffered a “prolonged asthma-like respiratory crisis” associated with thrombocytopenia, according to a previous…

Kuwait’s Court of Cassation, the country’s highest judicial body in the country, has issued a four-year prison sentence against former MP Walid Al-Tabtabaei, over challenging the Emir’s powers, Kuwaiti media…

LONDON: He preferred to be called “Father” rather than “Your Holiness,” and in his…

LONDON: He preferred to be called “Father” rather than “Your Holiness,” and in his…

Access to el-Fasher and nearby camps ‘dangerously restricted’, with up to 450,000 people estimated to be on the move.

Aid organisations are struggling to respond to the deepening humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s North Darfur, being driven by…

Pope Francis, who died Monday aged 88, will go down in history as a radical pontiff, a champion of underdogs who forged a more compassionate Catholic Church while stopping short of overhauling centuries-old dogma.

Dubbed “the people’s Pope”, the…

Gaza’s civil defence agency on Monday accused the Israeli military of carrying out “summary executions” in the killing of 15 rescue workers last month, rejecting the findings of an internal probe by the army.

The medics and other rescue workers…

Pope Francis, the Argentinian pontiff who brought the plight of the world’s most marginalised back to the centre of the Roman Catholic Church’s attention, has died aged 88, the Vatican announced on Monday.

A charismatic communicator with a…