Category: 3. Middle East

By Andrew MacAskill and Sarah Young

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will hold an emergency cabinet on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Gaza and a proposed peace plan as he comes under mounting pressure from his own party…

Heavy rain has killed at least 30 people and forced authorities to evacuate tens of thousands after swaths of northern China were lashed by torrential downpours that prompted landslides, according to state media.

Weather authorities have issued…

The International Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza said on Monday evening that the activists from the Gaza-bound Handala aid ship, who are being held by the Israeli authorities, have refused to sign documents…

By Michelle Nichols and Olivia Le Poidevin

UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA (Reuters) -Famine is “playing out” in the Gaza Strip, a global hunger monitor said in an alert issued on Tuesday as international criticism of Israel intensifies over rapidly…

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Monday that his country would respond “more firmly” if the United States or Israel launched new attacks.

His remarks appeared to be a response to comments made…

Zaher Birawi, the head of the International Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza and a founding member of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, said that the coalition’s “small ships” have caused a “major shock”…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to present a proposal to the Security and Political Cabinet for the gradual annexation of parts of the Gaza Strip, in an effort to retain Finance Minister Bezalel…

Hundreds of residents gathered at a beach in Yokosuka city’s Kurihama area, south of Tokyo, over the weekend to pray for marine safety in a summer festival that fuses sacred ritual and seaside spectacle.

As a portable shrine called mikoshi,…