Category: 3. Middle East

MOSCOW, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States on ending the war in Ukraine will move to Geneva next week and Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky will head the Russian delegation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was…

London’s high court on Friday upheld a challenge to a government ban on activist group Palestine Action, saying the proscription had interfered with the right to freedom of speech.

A three-judge panel at the court found the ban was…

The co-founder of Palestine Action on Friday won a legal challenge in the UK over the group’s ban as a “terrorist organisation.”

Huda Ammori had challenged the ban at a trial in the High Court in London, where…

The Civil Defence in Gaza has said that around 8,000 bodies remain under the rubble of destroyed buildings across the territory, despite ongoing search and rescue efforts.

In a statement on Thursday, spokesperson…

The UK’s High Court has ruled that the government ban on the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a ‘terror group’ was unlawful. The case was brought by the group’s co-founder Huda Ammori. Rory Challands is outside…

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, has refused calls to resign and rejected criticism from states that fail to condemn genocide in Palestine. She stressed…

GENEVA, Feb 13 (Reuters) – A U.N. human rights spokesperson said on Friday she was very worried about attacks on independent U.N. experts after European governments criticised Francesca Albanese who is mandated to report on human rights…

Iraq says more than 3,000 Syrians are among the ISIL-linked detainees transferred to one of its prisons by US military.

More than 5,000 ISIL-linked (ISIS) detainees have been transferred from Syrian jails to a…

The al-Najjar family gathered at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, early to await the arrival of their matriarch. They stood shoulder to shoulder, eagerly waiting for the bus.

For…

Separatists backed by Abu Dhabi have called for the expulsion of a Saudi military official from Aden, as hundreds gathered in a protest in the city on Thursday.

The demonstrators, affiliated with the dissolved…