Category: 3. Middle East

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are facing an energy crisis as water levels have plummeted at the reservoirs powering their largests hydropower stations, officials said this week.

The two landlocked Central Asian countries are heavily reliant on…

A spokesperson for the European Commission for Humanitarian Affairs, Eva Hrentcherova, said Thursday that the humanitarian situation in Sudan has reached an unimaginable level of suffering, condemning the atrocities…

UN rights chief urges countries to ‘stand up against atrocities’ committed by paramilitary RSF in takeover of the city.

The United Nations’s top human rights body has ordered a probe into abuses in Sudan’s el-Fasher, where mass killings…

China’s president says the two countries are like ‘family’, pledging to ‘strengthen strategic alignment’ with the Southeast Asian nation.

Chinese President…

By Sfundo Parakozov

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa granted entry to 130 Palestinians without travel papers after initially barring them but said it will examine accusations that an unregistered organisation arranged their trip “in an…

A deadly conflict between bears and humans is playing out across Japan, where authorities have deployed the military to protect locals who are using drone-based alert and surveillance systems to track the bears.

Since April this year, at least 13…

Kasit Piromya, a former Thai foreign minister, talks about the China-Thailand relationship, and says the partnership could play a key…

The latest celebrity Saudi Arabia has tapped to advance its Vision 2030 ambitions is MrBeast, one of the world’s most popular YouTubers, who has opened a pop-up theme park in Riyadh.

What happened: The viral star, who hit 100 billion views this…

In a stunning geopolitical reversal, on October 29, the United States abruptly lifted sanctions on Bosnian Serb leader and genocide denier Milorad Dodik – a known Kremlin ally who has long undermined Bosnia and Herzegovina’s sovereignty. The…