Category: 3. Middle East

Bolivian police fired tear gas at protesters near the presidential palace in La Paz, as three separate groups rallied against the government over labour, education, and agrarian reforms. A teachers’ union leader says they’re demanding…

Israel’s military launches a probe after photo shows a soldier placing a cigarette into the mouth of a Virgin Mary statue.

Israel’s military has launched an investigation after a photo circulated online showing a soldier desecrating a statue…

By Ariba Shahid, Steve Holland and Alexander Cornwell

ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON/TEL AVIV, May 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump predicted a swift end to the war with Iran as Tehran considered a U.S. peace proposal that sources said would…

French universities are now offering 1 euro meals to all students, regardless of income, as part of a government-backed effort to ease financial pressure amid rising living costs. The move follows growing concern over student hardship,…

Four Bosnian environmental agencies have filed charges against a Canadian mining group after hundreds of people living near its controversial Vares mine, tested positive for lead poisoning. The mine was supposed to bring prosperity, but…

By Joshua McElwee

VATICAN CITY, May 7 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Pope Leo at the Vatican on Thursday, in a potentially fraught encounter as President Donald Trump has continued a series of disparaging attacks on the…

Tokyo’s Nikkei index soared Thursday to lead another strong rally across Asia stocks, fuelled by growing optimism the Iran war is close to ending and the revival of demand for all things AI.

Oil prices also held the week’s steep losses due to…

Oil prices fell and global stock markets traded mixed Thursday awaiting an update on a US plan to end the Middle East war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Having plunged more than 10 percent at one point Wednesday on peace hopes, crude futures…

Oil sank again Thursday and Tokyo’s Nikkei index led another strong rally across Asia stocks, fuelled by growing optimism the Iran war is close to ending and the revival of demand for all things AI.

Risk sentiment was surging on hopes Washington…

Seoul appeals court cuts ex-prime minister’s prison sentence from 23 years to 15.

A South Korean appeals court has reduced the sentence of former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo by eight years for crimes relating to…