Category: 3. Middle East

Supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party were seen celebrating outside the party’s office in the capital Dhaka as election results came in. The BNP has claimed victory and its leader Tarique Rahman is expected to become prime…

Russia unleashed a massive air assault on Ukraine’s cities on the day French Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin visited Kyiv. The February 7 assault was a repeat of Moscow’s similarly powerful attack on the day of NATO Secretary-General Mark…

Russia will not participate in the first session of the Peace Council chaired by US President Donald Trump, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

Responding to a question about whether Russian…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said the value of salaries in Iran has sharply declined, citing his own income as an example of the country’s currency devaluation and reduced purchasing power.

Speaking at a…

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has said he regrets maintaining a relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the latter’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution, as the reverberations from…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office said on Thursday that detainee Abdullah Barghouti was injured during a suppression operation at Gilboa prison a day earlier.

In a statement, the office said Barghouti appeared…

United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has claimed that Washington engineered a dollar shortage in Iran to send the rial into freefall and cause protests on the streets.

In December and January, Iran was faced with one of the biggest…

Gezani is forecast to return to cyclone status when it strikes southern Mozambique on Friday evening.

Nearly 40 people have been killed and more than 12,000 others displaced after Cyclone Gezani slammed into…

A group of Swiss lawyers has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court, accusing their government of failing to meet its international legal obligations in relation to Israel’s genocide in the Gaza…

ANKARA, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Turkey detained 16 people and seized assets worth about 300 million lira ($6.9 million) on Friday in an investigation into alleged money laundering linked to content shared on the OnlyFans platform, prosecutors said.

The…