Category: 3. Middle East

ANKARA, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. is in discussions with Turkey ​regarding Ankara’s rejoining the F-35 fighter ​jet programme and Washington hopes that talks will yield a breakthrough ⁠in the coming months, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey…

All crew members killed in crash at Port Sudan airbase as paramilitary forces seize strategic oil facility in West Kordofan.

A military transport aircraft has gone down while attempting to land at an airbase in eastern Sudan, killing all the crew…

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was joined by 12-year-old campaigner Florence Brodribb at an event to welcome the start of Australia’s world-first ban on social media for under-16s.

The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026.

Income is not much different, where the top 50 percent of earners take home more than…

Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has continued for a third day, with cross-border shelling and air raids forcing more than half a million civilians to flee their homes and seek shelter, according to authorities.

Officials from the two…

The catastrophic violence in Gaza has unfolded within an international system that was never designed to restrain the geopolitical ambitions of powerful states. Understanding why the United Nations has proved so limited in responding to what many…

Ukrainian leader responds to US President Trump’s suggestions that he is using the war as an excuse to avoid elections.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has…

Colombo, Sri Lanka – Sundaram Muttupillai, 46, had been working on a tea estate in Thalawakelle in Sri Lanka’s central district of Nuwara Eliya since he turned 17.

However, a devastating cyclone last week, the worst to hit the Indian Ocean…

Rights group FairSquare accuses world football governing body of ‘openly flouting’ its own rules on political neutrality.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s…

Deep in the Abu Dhabi desert, a vast AI campus a quarter the size of Paris is starting to emerge, the oil-rich UAE’s boldest bet yet on technology it hopes will help transform its economy.

Towering cranes clank as long, low buildings take shape…