Category: 3. Middle East

To avert looming famine, the “trickle” of aid currently entering the Gaza Strip must reach vastly greater proportions, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday as a new food security alert revealed the worst conditions since the…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emma Farge

(Reuters) -Palestinian health authorities say Israel’s ground and air campaign against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 60,000 people, with nearly a third of the dead under the age of…

Arab countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt joined calls Tuesday for Hamas to disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Palestinian territory.

Seventeen countries plus the European Union and Arab League…

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain announced on Tuesday it was prepared to recognise a Palestinian state in September unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the “appalling situation” in Gaza and meets other conditions.

Prime…

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar summoned the Dutch ambassador on Tuesday over her country’s travel ban on two far-right Israeli government ministers, local media said, Anadolu reports.

On Monday, the Netherlands declared Israeli Finance…

The UK announced Tuesday that it would recognise Palestine in September unless Israel takes “substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza,” Anadolu reports.

“I can confirm the UK will recognise the…

Alassane Ouattara, 83, announced the plan after changing the constitution to remove presidential term limits.

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has announced he will seek a fourth term leading the West African nation, as tensions rise over…

Spain’s foreign minister on Tuesday strongly defended a two-state solution for Palestine, urging the international community to choose between continued bloodshed or immediate action to implement the only viable…

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced it plans to revoke a scientific finding on climate change that has served as the basis for key environmental and pollution regulations.

In an interview on Tuesday, Lee Zeldin,…

Two leading German human rights groups have accused Israel of “committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and “deliberately” starving them to death, Anadolu reports.

“We also come to the…