Category: 3. Middle East

Deadly attack on teen reignited concern around the problem of knife crime that has plagued the British capital for years.

Two British teenagers have been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of 15 years, for stabbing to death a…

Fired by France’s imminent recognition of Palestinian statehood, UN members meet next week to breathe life into the push for a two-state solution as Israel, expected to be absent, presses its war in Gaza.

Days before the July 28-30 conference on…

Voting has started in a recall election that could see the unseating of dozens of opposition Kuomintang lawmakers.

Polls have opened in Taiwan’s high-stakes recall election that could give President William William Lai Ching-te’s Democratic…

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh calls for probe into deadly road accident a week after dozens killed in Ha Long Bay boat disaster.

Ten passengers have been killed, including two children, after a tour bus crashed in central Vietnam,…

Here are the key events on day 1,248 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Saturday, July 26:

Fighting

• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces were facing fierce fighting around the city of Pokrovsk in…

US president says chances of reaching a trade deal with the EU are ’50-50′ ahead of his August 1 tariff deadline.

United States President Donald Trump has arrived in Scotland, where he is set to meet with European and British leaders for trade…

The entertainment company Paramount Global is expected to close its $8bn merger agreement with Skydance Media on August 7, a date that marks two weeks after the administration of President Donald Trump gave its approval.

On Friday, the two…

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, under pressure to recognise a Palestinian state, said he would do so only as part of a wider peace deal. His Labour-led government is facing growing calls to recognise a Palestinian state after France said…

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are pleading for help as more people have starved to death under Israel’s unrelenting blockade of the coastal enclave.

The Gaza Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday that local hospitals recorded nine new…

By Tarek Amara

TUNIS (Reuters) -Hundreds of Tunisian activists protested in the capital on Friday against President Kais Saied, denouncing his rule as an “authoritarian regime” that has turned the country into an “open-air prison”.

Under the…