Category: 3. Middle East

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TEL AVIV, June 1 (Reuters) – Israel’s Defence Ministry on Monday said France had banned Israeli government representatives from attending the Eurosatory defence exhibition in Paris this month.

France has also banned Israeli weapons makers from…

India says it will continue engaging with Myanmar after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of the country’s military government, in New Delhi.

Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram…

Cairo, Egypt – On a weekday afternoon in early May, Mohammed Adel boarded the monorail at Musheer Tantawi station and watched Cairo’s cityscape scroll by.

The 48-year-old sales manager had boarded a train on the Egyptian capital’s latest…

DUBAI, June 1 (Reuters) – Iran’s Tasnim news agency said on Monday that Tehran’s negotiating team is stopping exchanges of messages with the United States through mediators due to attacks on Lebanon, as diplomatic efforts to end the…

On a modest bed inside his war-battered home in the Khartoum North neighbourhood of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, Murtada Mohieddin, a diabetic patient in his early 50s, carefully counts his remaining doses of insulin. His search for medicine…

After coming to power in April, PM Peter Magyar had given Sulyok a deadline of Sunday to leave office.

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar has promised to amend the constitution to remove the president and other…

Israel said Monday it would once again target Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold mostly spared heavy attacks since April, as it stages its deepest incursion into Lebanon in two decades.

The UN Security Council is expected to hold an…

Videos show gridlocked traffic in the southern suburbs of Beirut as residents rushed to evacuate the Dahiyeh area following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order that the military strike neighbourhoods associated with…