Category: 3. Middle East

A 1940 self-portrait titled ‘The dream’ by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m, making it the most expensive work by a female artist to sell at auction.

Mahmood Mamdani, father of New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, says his son’s drive is both…

Attack comes just days after armed men stormed a secondary school in northwestern Nigeria, kidnapping 25 schoolgirls.

Students have been abducted from a Catholic…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teenagers during an overnight raid on a town near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, residents said, as violence surges in the territory with a growing number of dead.

Forces shot…

In an astonishing victory, 34-year-old state legislator Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral election. Defeating former state Governor Andrew Cuomo, who enjoyed strong backing from US President Donald Trump and the political…

Sudan’s Prime Minister, Kamil Idris, said on Thursday that Khartoum is ready to engage seriously with Saudi Arabia and the United States to achieve peace and security in the country.

In an official statement, the…

Singapore on Friday imposed financial sanctions and entry bans on four Israeli individuals over their involvement in “acts of violence” against Palestinians in the West Bank, Anadolu reports.

Meir Mordechai…

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Air cargo services between India and Afghanistan will be launchedsoon, an Indian foreign ministry official said on Friday, during a visit by Afghanistan’s Taliban Trade Minister Al-Haj Nooruddin Azizi to New Delhi.

“I am…

Preliminary investigations show a gas leak triggered the explosion, which also flattened nearby homes, authorities say.

An explosion at a glue-making factory in…

Sudanese authorities said on Thursday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have destroyed 1,877 factories in Khartoum since the outbreak of war in April 2023.

In a press conference in Port Sudan, eastern Sudan,…