Category: 3. Middle East

Marina El Khawand was 18 when she saw her home town of Beirut shattered by the giant 2020 port explosion and decided she needed to help.

Today, at 24, she is among five laureates at Thursday’s Young Activists Summit awards at the UN in Geneva, and…

It’s been 60 years since Eusebio lifted the Ballon d’Or, becoming the first Black player to win football’s highest individual honour. But beyond the…

Egypt’s Consumer Protection Agency announced on Wednesday the recall of Belkin Limited’s BoostCharge 20K power bank after the discovery of a serious battery defect posing a fire hazard.

The agency said the recall…

Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko says Kyiv wants peace, but Moscow has no intention of de-escalating, instead intensifying what he describes as a hybrid war against Europe.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday expressed strong appreciation for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s position that normalisation with Israel must be tied to the establishment of a Palestinian…

Palestinian and Lebanese political and civil society groups issued strong condemnations on Wednesday following the Israeli airstrike on the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon that killed 13 children and…

VIENNA (Reuters) -The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution on Thursday saying Iran must inform the watchdog “without delay” of the status of its enriched uranium stock and bombed atomic sites, diplomats at the…

Gaza health authorities said fresh Israeli air strikes killed four people Thursday as Qatar, a mediator of the weeks-long ceasefire, warned that renewed attacks threatened to undermine the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas.

The new strikes…

A fire erupted on Wednesday at an oil plant in Venezuela’s main oil producing region after people nearby said they heard an explosion. There we no immediate reports of injuries, or what the cause was.

Members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee have come under pressure to move the “sovereignty” bill forward after it stalled despite passing its preliminary reading.

Avi Maoz, the head of the…