Category: 3. Middle East

Reporters Without Borders says investigation found Atiana Serge Oulon held at Ouagadougou villa, contradicting authorities’ account.

A media rights group has accused Burkina Faso’s military authorities of…

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Wednesday, as efforts to broker a peace deal between Tehran and Washington pick up pace amid the United States president’s announcement of a pause on…

An 80-year-old man who survived Israel’s invasion of Lebanon decades ago has been pulled out from under the rubble of his house, after an Israeli air strike on his town in southern Lebanon.

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has posted a video saying he ‘dreams’ of nooses, featuring a montage of AI-generated images in a nod to the death penalty law targeting Palestinian detainees.

Safe ⁠transit ⁠through the Strait of Hormuz will be ⁠ensured as the United States threats end and with new procedures in place, the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said, after the US said it was pausing…

Last week, the White House’s official rapid response account on X posted a graphic from a pro-Israel think tank, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), alongside text falsely claiming that Tehran’s uranium enrichment accelerated due…

By Catherine Cartier and Emilie Madi

BEIRUT, May 6 (Reuters) – Mohammed’s life as a gay man in conservative south Lebanon was already rife with challenges. But Israeli strikes on his hometown in March were the final straw, pushing him to flee to a…

Three people have died from the disease so far but the WHO says the risk to the public is still ‘low’.

The Canary Islands have refused to allow a luxury cruise ship…