Category: 3. Middle East

CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt annulled parliamentary votes in over a quarter of first-round constituencies on Tuesday in one of the most significant disruptions to a national election in recent years.

Polls opened last week for the first of two rounds to…

Political tensions and security threats in the Red Sea region are affecting plans by companies such as Google and Meta to expand their undersea cable networks.

According to Bloomberg, Meta’s project, 2Africa cable…

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday evening that it has formally asked the International Criminal Court’s Appeals Division to exclude Prosecutor Karim Khan from any involvement in cases…

The UN Security Council voted in favour of a US-backed resolution on Gaza after midnight on Monday. The plan supports former President Donald Trump’s proposal, which includes a ceasefire, the deployment of an…

Israeli public broadcaster sources reported on Monday evening that security negotiations between Israel and Syria have hit a dead end, with widening differences between Damascus’s demands and Tel Aviv’s…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -One man was killed and three other people were injured in a car ramming and stabbing attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli military and ambulance service said, in what Israeli authorities described…

When US President Donald Trump declared that South Africa “should not even be” in the G20 and then took to Truth Social on November 7 to announce that no American official would attend this year’s summit in Johannesburg on account of a

By Alexander Cornwell and Timour Azhari

TEL AVIV/RIYDAH (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia’s defacto ruler Mohammed bin Salman is set to press U.S. President Donald Trump to personally intervene to help end the war in Sudan during talks in Washington on…

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi

ALEPPO, Syria/AMMAN (Reuters) -Syria on Tuesday began the first trial of suspects in a wave of bloodshed in March during which pro-government fighters killed hundreds of members of the Alawite minority – a case seen as a…