Category: 3. Middle East

Even as the United States slaps India with a 50 percent tariff, the highest among all countries so far and one that will push their relationship to its lowest moment in years, one thing is clear: US President Donald Trump is more interested in…

The Norwegian government on Tuesday said it would review its sovereign wealth fund’s investment in Israel after the Scandinavian country’s leading newspaper revealed that the nearly $2 trillion fund had a stake in an Israeli company aiding…

Here are the key events on day 1,260 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Thursday, August 7:

Fighting

• Russian artillery shelling on a car belonging to Ukraine’s state emergency services killed three people, including an…

A march has begun from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas northward to the central part of the country, in protest of policies that make legal immigration status difficult to achieve.

Wednesday’s march set out from the border city of…

Health facilities juggling rising cases of infant hunger, malaria, in an area that also shelters thousands of refugees.

Rising cases of extreme infant hunger and malaria are overwhelming humanitarian facilities in southwestern Ethiopia as aid cuts…

To Governments, International Organisations, Media Institutions, and Civil Society:

We, the undersigned press freedom organisations, media organisations, journalists’ unions, and advocates of truth and transparency, demand an end to the forced…

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen $584 million in federal funding for the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA said on Wednesday after the government reprimanded the university over…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. on Wednesday broughtfederal hate crime charges against the suspect accused of fatally shooting two Israeli embassy staffers outside a museum in Washingtonin May, court papers showed.

(Reporting by Andrew Goudsward….

Administration says Russia expressed ‘desire to meet with President Trump’ and that the US wants war in Ukraine to end.

The White House has said that United States President Donald Trump is “open” to the idea of a meeting with Russian…