Category: 3. Middle East

Tehran, Iran – Authorities have merged one of Iran’s largest private lenders into the country’s biggest state-run bank in a move that highlights a deeply troubled economy and will further squeeze average citizens as pressure from the West…

Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza are facing danger from unexploded ordnance, with at least 53 people killed and hundreds injured by explosives.

Three defendants receive prison terms of up to 18 years over plots in 2019 and 2020.

A Hong Kong court has sentenced three people to prison terms of up to 18 years…

Officials signal that trade deal is close as Trump and Xi prepare to meet for the first time since 2019.

The United States and China have hailed the outcome of trade…

McLaren’s Lando Norris avoided early mayhem to cruise to a dominant Mexico City Grand Prix win and retake the Formula One championship lead by a single point from teammate Oscar Piastri on Sunday.

Australia’s Piastri, who started the race…

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La Libertad Avanza gets most votes nationally, as well as in the Buenos Aires province, early results and media tallies show.

Argentinian President…

Here are the key events from day 1,341 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Monday, October 27, 2025:

Fighting

• Russian drone attacks on the…

British political commentator and journalist Sami Hamdi has been detained by federal authorities in the United States in what a US Muslim civil rights group has called an “abduction”.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned…

Israeli restrictions on the entry of heavy machinery are crippling Gaza City’s efforts to clear debris and rebuild critical infrastructure, the city’s mayor says, as tens of thousands of tonnes of unexploded Israeli bombs threaten lives…