Category: 3. Middle East

The move comes after a commission found Deshabandu Tennakoon guilty of gross abuse of power.

Sri Lanka’s Parliament has voted to fire the country’s police chief for misconduct and gross abuse of power in the island’s first impeachment of an…

BERLIN (Reuters) -More than 100 Israeli academics have warned in a letter that a failure by Germany to put pressure on Israel could lead to new atrocities in Gaza.

“Further hesitation on Germany’s part threatens to enable new atrocities – and…

A British couple held in Iran on espionage charges spoke by phone Tuesday with relatives in the UK for the first time since they were detained in January, their family announced.

It comes after their children learned over the weekend that Lindsay…

From the 2011 civil war that first broke out in Daraa, to the fall of Damascus in late 2024, Zeina Khodr was at the forefront of some of Syria’s most major moments.

In this Between Us, she takes us through her experience of reporting on the…

Even before the latest Superman film premiered, it was already deemed controversial. A rather innocuous comment by director James Gunn referencing Superman’s backstory as an “immigrant that came from other places” was enough to spark a…

Thousands rallied in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to mark one year since nationwide protests forced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign. The 2024 uprising began over quota reforms but turned deadly, with over 1,400 people killed. The…

The brother of Israeli hostage Evyatar David called on the world to “come together” to secure his freedom following the publication of a video in which the emaciated captive was shown purportedly digging his own grave.

David, 24, is one of 251…

Tensions at the top of Israel’s leadership escalated sharply, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son accusing the army chief of plotting a “mutiny,” while far-right National Security Minister Itamar…

Washington, DC – The Republican-led oversight committee in the United States House of Representatives has issued a subpoena to obtain records related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, amid ongoing scrutiny about his case.

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