Category: 3. Middle East

By Michelle Nichols, Olivia Le Poidevin, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Andrew MacAskill

UNITED NATIONS/LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Tuesday it would recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel takes steps to relieve suffering in Gaza,…

VALLETTA (Reuters) -Malta will declare recognition of a Palestinian state during the general assembly of the United Nations in September, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Tuesday evening.

Abela made the announcement hours after a similar…

By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia and France on Tuesday called on countries at the United Nations to support a declaration that outlines “tangible, timebound, and irreversible steps” towards implementing a two-state…

Witnesses say the Israeli settler arrested in the fatal shooting of Palestinian activist Odeh Hadalin said he was “glad about it.” The shooting happened during a confrontation over an Israeli bulldozer that damaged infrastructure in a…

Sidra Bibi, 18, was reportedly killed on the orders of a local council of elders in eastern Pakistan’s Rawalpindi.

The father and ex-husband of a victim allegedly killed on the orders of a local council are among nine people arrested in eastern…

The International Monetary Fund has raised its global growth forecasts for 2025 and 2026 slightly, citing stronger-than-expected purchases in advance of an August 1 jump in tariffs imposed by the United States and a drop in the effective US…

Greek riot police clashed with demonstrators in Rhodes who were protesting the docking of an Israeli cruise ship. The Crown Iris had previously bypassed Syros after Gaza-related protests. The incidents mark a growing pattern of…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The State Department said on Tuesday that the United States repatriated a U.S. citizen minor from a displaced persons camp in northeast Syria for unification with the child’s family.

“Approximately 30,000 individuals from…

A UN conference in New York on a two-state solution between the Palestinians and Israel has adopted an “integrated and actionable framework,” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said on Tuesday,…

The US football league has previously faced legal challenges over its failure to address players’ concussions.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said that a gunman who killed five people, including himself, sought out the headquarters of the…