Category: 3. Middle East

Presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe was shot in Bogota on June 7 during a rally and underwent multiple surgeries before his death.

Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe, who had been fighting for his life since he was shot in June during a…

Gazans gathered on Monday for the funeral of five Al Jazeera staff members and a sixth reporter killed in an Israeli strike, with Israel calling one of them a “terrorist” affiliated with Hamas.

Dozens stood amid bombed-out buildings in the…

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has rocked the Turkish town of Sindirgi in Balikesir province, causing more than a dozen buildings to collapse. At least one elderly man, who was pulled from the rubble, has died. In February 2023, twin quakes…

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned Sunday that the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip “a looming hunger crisis – this is starvation, pure and simple”. 

This…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO (Reuters) -Palestinians reported the heaviest bombardments in weeks on Monday in areas east of Gaza City, just hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected to complete a new expanded offensive…

Palestinian journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh has mourned his colleagues Anas Al Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with all journalists killed in Gaza, expressing the pain of loss and the hardship of the profession during…

Boxers Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa died following fights on the same card in Tokyo last week.

Japanese boxing officials will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday as the sport in the country faces intense scrutiny following the deaths of…

Manila says a Chinese navy vessel collides with one from its own coastguard while chasing a Philippine patrol boat.

China’s coastguard says it has expelled Philippine vessels from waters around the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China…

Hamas has accused the Israeli army of committing “a brutal crime that goes beyond all limits of fascism and criminality” after an Israeli airstrike hit a journalist’s tent in the courtyard of al-Shifa Hospital…