Category: 3. Middle East

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Some of Warner Bros Discovery’s biggest investors are split on Paramount Skydance’s sweetened offer for the storied movie studio owner,…

A senior UN disarmament official on Thursday urged the Security Council to unite behind efforts to fully dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons program, emphasizing the “critical opportunity” to make…

Iran is now under a nationwide internet blackout, London-based internet monitoring group NetBlocks said on Thursday, Anadolu reports.

“Live metrics show Iran is now in the midst of a nationwide internet blackout,”…

Saudi-backed “National Shield Forces” were seen deploying in Aden a day after separatist leader Aidarous al-Zubaidi fled Yemen for the United Arab Emirates. The city has been at the centre of al-Zubaidi’s Southern Transitional…

At least 425 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since an October ceasefire came into effect, the Health Ministry says.

An Israeli attack on a tent in southern Gaza has killed at least three Palestinians and wounded three others,…

Israeli gunfire killed 11-year-old Hamsa Hosou in northern Gaza, her family says, despite a ceasefire in place for nearly three months. She is among more than 400 Palestinians reported killed since the truce took effect.

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NetBlocks says the apparent blackout follows “a series of escalating digital censorship measures targeting protests”.

Iran is…

Al Jazeera witnessed injured civilians arriving at an Aleppo hospital as intense artillery fire streaked across the sky and ricocheted off buildings. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syrian army have been engaged in increasingly…

Laurent Vinatier, had been sentenced to three years for allegedly violating Russia’s so-called ‘foreign agent’ laws.

A French researcher serving a three-year sentence in Russia has been freed in a prisoner exchange with Moscow, French and…

A Greenlandic lawmaker has stressed that Greenland is “not for sale” as United States President Donald Trump and senior members of his administration renew threats to take control of the autonomous Danish territory.

Aaja Chemnitz, a member of…