Category: 3. Middle East

The United States Department of Defense has released its first tranche of previously classified files on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), following an order from US President Donald Trump in February.

The release on Friday contained 162 files…

Virginia’s highest court has thrown out a new electoral map that was crafted to flip four Republican-held US congressional seats to Democrats, handing President Donald Trump’s party a victory in the run-up to the November midterm…

By Rami Ayyub

JERUSALEM, May 8 (Reuters) – A prominent Palestinian-American developer asked a U.S. judge on Friday to throw out a lawsuit accusing him of supporting Hamas through his Gaza projects, arguing it equates participating in Gaza’s…

May 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. military struck two empty Iranian-flagged oil tankers on Friday that it said were seeking to violate the ongoing U.S. blockade, U.S. Central Command said in a post on X, adding that a third Iranian-flagged vessel had…

Khirbet al-Marajim, occupied West Bank — The metal door of the Masallam family home still bears the dents from a settler’s axe. Inside, the smell of freshly made cheese hangs beneath a stone-domed ceiling. Mattresses line the circular room,…

The United States carried out strikes on Iranian oil tankers on Friday after renewed clashes threatened to upend a fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran, as the US awaits an Iranian response to its latest proposal for a deal to end…

The ex-leader won praise for good governance and the fight against HIV/AIDS in the southern African nation.

Botswana’s former President Festus Mogae has died at the age of 86, the government has announced, along…

A group of 298 petitioners from remote villages of Marsabit County in northern Kenya is suing BP and the Kenyan government over oil exploration waste from the 1980s that it says is causing a cancer cluster that has killed hundreds.

Residents and…