Category: 3. Middle East

Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Thursday praised plans of Canada and Malta to recognize a Palestinian state during the UN General Assembly meetings in September, urging other countries to follow suit, Anadolu reports.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with Syria’s foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani in Moscow on Thursday, the first visit by a top official from Syria’s new government since the toppling of…

Rangers in Uganda’s Murchison National Park are the front line in the fight against wildlife poaching. It’s a dangerous…

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said Thursday he is prepared to approve the recognition of Palestine if the government submits an official proposal, Anadolu reports.

Under Finland’s Constitution, the president…

Spain will dispatch an urgent humanitarian aid shipment to Gaza to help feed 11,000 people, the country’s foreign minister said Thursday, condemning what he called “the famine induced by Israel” and demanding…

Two more people died of starvation in the Israel-blockaded Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, a health official said on Thursday, Anadolu reports.

Muneer Alboursh, Director General of the Gaza Health Ministry, said a…

Gaza City, Gaza Strip – Hani Abu Rizq walks through Gaza City’s wrecked streets with two bricks tied against his stomach as the rope cuts into his clothes, which hang loose from the weight he has lost.

The 31-year-old searches desperately for…

Middle Eastern airlines recorded the sharpest decline globally in air travel demand in June, with a 0.4% year-on-year contraction, according to new data that also marked sharp drops in European and American traffic due to the wars engulfing the…

LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal’s centre-right government will consult the main political parties and conservative President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa about the potential recognition of a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said on…