Category: 3. Middle East

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has said that calls for the Lebanese group’s disarmament serve only Israel, amid pressure from the United States for Beirut to take such steps.

“Those who call for submitting arms practically demand submitting them…

Belgian prosecutors have referred a war crimes complaint against two Israeli soldiers to the International Criminal Court (ICC), following allegations that they participated in atrocities in Gaza.

The Hind Rajab Foundation, which filed the…

By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Momentum seems to be building for more countries to recognize a Palestinian state in Israeli-occupied territory after France said last week it would do so in September. Britain said Tuesday it would…

Aboard a Jordanian military plane, aid crates are parachuted into Gaza, where war and blockade have pushed more than two million Palestinians to the brink of famine.

The Jordanian Air Force C-130’s crew of eight soldiers pushes pallets of food out…

US freezes Judge Moraes’s assets, citing role in arbitrary detentions, censorship, and Bolsonaro-related prosecutions.

The US Department of the Treasury has said it was imposing sanctions on Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes…

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The decision also drew dissent from two of the central bank’s governors, both appointees of US President Donald Trump, a first in more than 30 years.

Despite pressure from the White House, the United States Federal Reserve will…

The decision came after the country’s military chief sent a letter to Trump praising his ‘strong leadership’.

The United Nations’s top expert on Myanmar has sharply criticised the United States for lifting sanctions on allies of the…

The speaker of Israel’s Knesset told the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Geneva that Europe is becoming “more and more similar to the Middle East” and London or Paris should therefore be the site of a Palestinian state….

Mauritian rider Kim Le Court has made history for Africa by winning a stage at the women’s Tour de France.

Mauritian Kim Le Court became the first African to win a stage on the women’s Tour de France..

It was a case of double celebration for…

Rescuers had hoped to find the double Olympic gold medallist on the 6,096-metre (20,000-foot) Laila Peak in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountains.

German biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier has died on a mountain in northern Pakistan after a climbing…