Category: 3. Middle East

By Daphne Psaledakis and Sonia Rolley

(Reuters) -Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo held the first meeting of a joint oversight committee on Thursday, taking a step toward implementing a peace deal agreed last month in Washington even as…

Here are the key events on day 1,254 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Friday, August 1:

Fighting

• Russia launched waves of missiles and drones at Kyiv before dawn on Thursday, killing 16 people, including two children, and…

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Trump imposed tariffs on dozens of countries ahead of his August 1 deadline to strike trade deals.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing new “reciprocal” tariffs ranging from 10 percent to 41…

President Dina Boluarte has blasted the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for its opposition to a recently passed bill that would grant amnesty to soldiers, police officers and other security personnel involved in Peru’s internal conflict…

United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs are set to come into effect on August 1. They mark a significant escalation in US trade policy, leading to higher prices for consumers and bigger financial hits for companies.

Trump had initially…

ATHENS (Reuters) -Slovenia on Thursday imposed an embargo on exports, imports and transit of arms to Israel, two weeks after it declared Israeli ministers persona non grata, the state news agency STA reported citing a government statement.

The…

Sandinista commander Bayardo Arce arrested amid corruption probe and political shake-up in Nicaragua.

Nicaraguan authorities have arrested Bayardo Arce, a senior Sandinista figure and longtime economic adviser to President Daniel Ortega, amid an…

WASHINGTON — The US envoy for Syria pledged accountability for the US citizen who was killed during the unrest in the country’s Druze-majority south earlier this month. 

US special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack told reporters in Washington…

Washington, DC – Palestinian rights advocates are hailing the growing number of lawmakers in the United States showing willingness to restrict weapons to Israel over the atrocities in Gaza after a Senate vote on the issue.

The majority of…