Category: 3. Middle East

The Humanitarian Operations Coordination Centre (HOCC), affiliated with Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement (Houthis), has announced that it has imposed sanctions on 64 companies that breached the naval blockade imposed on…

Athens is upset by the seizure of properties of the Greek Orthodox Church in the West Bank by illegal Israeli settlers, local media reported on Thursday, Anadolu reports.

According to Kathimerini daily, Greek…

Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris arrived in Cairo on Thursday morning for his first foreign visit since assuming office in May, as his country’s army remains gripped by a brutal war with paramilitaries.

Idris, a career diplomat and former UN…

Germany will push on with temporary border controls beyond a September deadline as it cracks down on irregular immigration, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said Thursday.

Berlin also plans to deport more rejected asylum seekers with criminal…

Some 80% of Germans reject Israel’s deadly military campaign in Gaza, while 75% favor their government putting more pressure on Israel, including sanctions, according to survey results published by Focus…

In Kabul’s narrow alleys and quiet courtyards, boys dressed in white caps and tunics diligently recite Quranic verses across an expanding network of madrassas – religious schools that increasingly bridge critical gaps in Afghanistan’s…

By Alexander Cornwell and Nidal al-Mughrabi

TEL AVIV/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to meet with a small group of senior ministers on Thursday to discuss plans for the military to take control of more territory…

PARIS (Reuters) -Suspected vandals daubed the front of the Paris office of Israeli national airline El Al in red paint, drawing condemnation from French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot on Thursday.

“Free Palestine” and other slogans were…

Italy has approved a $15.5bn suspension bridge which will connect the mainland to the island of Sicily.

Italy has given final approval to a long-delayed plan to construct the world’s longest suspension bridge, connecting the mainland to Sicily…

Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), said on Thursday that the worsening famine in Gaza cannot be resolved by air-dropping aid, stating: “We can’t airdrop our way out of an…