Category: 3. Middle East

Accident would add to more than 1,000 migrant deaths in central Mediterranean crossings this year.

Forty-two migrants, including 29 from Sudan, eight from Somalia,…

(Reuters) -Israeli President Isaac Herzog received a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump, urging him to consider granting a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the president’s office said on Wednesday.

“While I absolutely respect the…

Father Manuel Musallam, former pastor of the Latin Church in Gaza and a member of the Islamic-Christian Committee for the Defence of Holy Sites, has issued a sharp rebuke to those he accused of “stabbing the…

(Reuters) -Israel’s defense minister said on Wednesday he planned to close publicly funded Army Radio in what he described as an attempt to preserve the military’s nonpartisan character, but the decision was denounced by the station’s chief…

Justice Minister German Galushchenko allegedly took part in the scheme involving state nuclear power firm Energoatom.

Ukraine has suspended Justice Minister German…

WATCH: A video provided by a former military guard shows soldiers torturing two detainees at an infantry base in Mandalay region in October 2021. 

Al Jazeera has also gathered testimonies from several military defectors who confirm that deaths in…

United States President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the British public broadcaster, the BBC, for $1bn in the latest of a series of actions he is taking against major news outlets.

Trump’s lawyers said the BBC violated Florida defamation…

(Reuters) -At least 42 migrants are missing and presumed dead after a rubber boat capsized off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration said on Wednesday.

Libyan authorities rescued seven survivors who had drifted at sea…

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia is ready to resume peace negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul, Russian state news agency TASS cited a foreign ministry official as saying on Wednesday.

No face-to-face talks have taken place between the two sides since…

The United States and Israel have strongly denied a recent report by Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya channel claiming that Yasser Abu Shabab, described as the leader of an anti-Hamas militia in Gaza, met with Jared…