Category: 3. Middle East

By Catarina Demony and Alistair Smout

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said it would make refugee status temporary and the wait for permanent settlement would be quadrupled to 20 years under the country’s most sweeping overhaul of policy on asylum…

The former Trump ally accuses him of trying to intimidate Republicans before a US House vote next week over the Epstein files.

Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor…

Entity called Al-Majd Europe taking families on buses out of Gaza to Israel’s Ramon Airport – and then to unknown destinations.

A Palestinian man who says he left Gaza through a shadowy organisation that has landed 153 people in South Africa…

Basil Farraj, an assistant professor at Birzeit University, talks about the conditions and treatment of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in Israeli detention centres.

This Palestinian man, who wants to remain anonymous, left Gaza through ‘Al Majd Europe’, a controversial group using unofficial, Israeli-coordinated channels that required registration, screening, and payments to unknown individuals….

From communities in the Philippines battling climate-driven displacement and devastating floods, to solemn mass burials of Palestinians in Gaza, and demonstrations…

The plans, inspired by Denmark’s approach, aim to slash irregular immigration and counter the UK’s far right.

The United Kingdom has announced a drastic reduction…

Women in Fiji are often employed in the informal economy, which means low and inconsistent pay, with underemployment for them running as high as 74 percent, according to The Asia Foundation. So the women being trained by Ravea are eager to learn…

Protests come amid widespread anger over billions of pesos spent on substandard or non-existent flood control infrastructure.

Tens of thousands of people are gathering in the Philippines’ capital, Manila, demanding accountability over a