Category: 3. Middle East

By Nandita Bose and Nayera Abdallah

WASHINGTON/DUBAI, May 12 (Reuters) – Hopes for a peace deal on Iran faded on Tuesday after Donald Trump said a ceasefire with Iran was “on life support” as Tehran rejected a U.S. proposal to end the conflict…

Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto reports from southern Lebanon, where displaced residents say they will not leave again despite a sharp rise in deaths and intensifying Israeli strikes.

The ex-Bolivian president is on trial for allegedly fathering a child with a 15-year-old girl while in office.

A Bolivian judge has found former President Evo Morales in contempt of…

US officials say 18 Americans are being quarantined and monitored for symptoms, as WHO insists risk to public remains low.

The last two evacuation planes carrying passengers and crew from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak have…

By Mei Mei Chu, Antoni Slodkowski and Trevor Hunnicutt

BEIJING, May 12 (Reuters) – A year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump predicted that towering trade tariffs would bring America’s main economic rival to heel.

He heads to China this week with…

By Lais Morais

SAO PAULO, May 11 (Reuters) – Brazilian activist Thiago Avila returned to Sao Paulo on Monday following his detention and deportation from Israel, where he alleged he was tortured and witnessed abuses of Palestinian prisoners during…

Syria has authorised banks to work with Visa and Mastercard as part of efforts to rejoin the global economy. The EU has agreed to restore fuller trade ties with Damascus, though Syria still seeks removal from the US ‘state sponsors of…

Bolivia faces growing unrest as widespread road blockades disrupt travel across major cities including La Paz and El Alto. Protesters are demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz amid fuel shortages, rising costs, and wage…

Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says US has ‘no alternative but to accept’ Tehran’s 14-point proposal to end war.

PARIS, May 11 (Reuters) – A 27-year-old man suspected of plotting a violent attack and of planning to join Islamic State in Syria or Mozambique had sought to target a Parisian museum and the Jewish community, though no specific target was…