Category: 3. Middle East

CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli airstrikes killed 10 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in a part of the enclave under Hamas control since a shaky ceasefire took effect in October, health authorities said.

Medics said two people were killed in…

Israeli warplanes destroyed a number of buildings across several towns in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, after the military issued forced displacement orders for residents there. Israel is targeting what it claims are Hezbollah sites.

Harvard University, where Summers is a professor, is also set to open a probe into the allegations against him.

Former United States Treasury Secretary Larry Summers…

Residents of Lebanon’s Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp described their fear and astonishment a day after a deadly strike that Israel said targeted a Hamas compound, a claim the Palestinian militant group rejected.

Tuesday night’s raid,…

Last week, 42 migrants were presumed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their dinghy set sail off the Libyan coast.

At least 29 of them were Sudanese refugees who fled the catastrophic civil war in their country between the…

By Tarek Amara

TUNIS (Reuters) -Thousands of young doctors went on strike across Tunisia on Wednesday to demand higher pay and warn of an impending collapse of the health system, part of a broader wave of social unrest convulsing the country.

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Tom Fletcher says those responsible for deliberate attacks on civilians in western Darfur region must face justice.

Sudan’s el-Fasher has been transformed into a “crime scene”, the United Nations’ aid chief says, as the UN pushes for…

UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese on Wednesday warned that the “mysterious” chartered flight that brought 153 Palestinian refugees to South Africa is “extremely…

BEIRUT (Reuters) -The Israeli military stepped up airstrikes in south Lebanon on Wednesday, killing at least one person as it pressed a campaign of near-daily attacks which it says is designed to block a military revival by Iran-backed Hezbollah…

Video of a church service in Nigeria captured the first moments of a gun attack in which at least two people were killed, and the pastor and worshippers were kidnapped. Nigeria’s government has rejected recent US allegations of a…