Category: 3. Middle East

Bangkok, Thailand – As Myanmar slowly recovers from the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that killed thousands in March, an even greater catastrophe continues to shape the nation’s future – this one man-made.

Myanmar remains gripped by a civil war…

Block on removal of migrants without due process sets up the possibility of another challenge by the Trump administration to the power of the courts.

The United States Supreme Court has ordered a temporary halt on the deportation of two Venezuelan…

Sitting in a crowd of mothers and children under the harsh sun, Najlaa Ahmed described the moment the Rapid Support Forces men poured into Darfur’s Zamzam displacement camp, looting and burning homes as shells rained…

The humanoid robots were no match for human rivals as they made their half-marathon debut in the Chinese capital.

Humans took the lead over robots and kept it easily as they raced to victory at Beijing’s Yizhuang half-marathon.

Thousands of…

DAMASCUS, Syria: Two Republican members of the US Congress were in the Syrian capital…

Sitting in a crowd of mothers and children under the harsh sun, Najlaa Ahmed described the moment the Rapid Support Forces men poured into Darfur’s Zamzam displacement camp, looting and burning homes as shells rained…

Serampore, India – It is a warm morning in March, and 65-year-old Ashish Bandopadhyay has cycled the 10 minutes from his home to a tea shop in the Chatra neighbourhood of Serampore, about 30km (19 miles) from Kolkata.

Dressed in a pastel pink…

The United States and Iran made progress in a second round of high-stakes talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme on Saturday and agreed to meet again next week, both sides said.

The Oman-mediated talks in Rome lasted about four hours, Iranian state…

The United States and Iran concluded a second round of high-stakes talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme on Saturday, agreeing to meet again in a week for further discussions.

The Oman-mediated talks in Rome lasted about four hours, Iranian state…

The United States and Iran are set to resume high-stakes talks Saturday on Tehran’s nuclear programme, a week after an initial round of discussions that both sides described as “constructive”.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US Middle…