Category: 3. Middle East

Tickets for matches at other venues can be listed above face value on the official resale and exchange marketplace.

Tickets to World Cup matches in Toronto can now only be resold for their original price on…

The 23rd edition of the FIFA World Cup — the biggest ever — will see 48 nations compete for the prize in a 39-day tournament in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

Sixteen venues across the three nations will host 104 matches as the…

SYDNEY, May 7 (Reuters) – A group of Australian women and children linked to the extremist group Islamic State are on their way home from a camp in Syria and are expected to arrive in the country on Thursday night, Australian media reported.

The…

By Emma Farge and Dave Graham

GENEVA, May 7 (Reuters) – When in 1937 the League of Nations vacated the 225-room Palais Wilson in Geneva, the global intergovernmental body created to preserve peace after World War One was on its last legs. It died…

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…