Category: 3. Middle East

The Norwegian diplomat who was a key architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords is facing a storm of corruption and blackmail allegations after new documents revealed he was deeply embedded in the inner circle of late…

Securing international loans and reforming health and education systems among the top priorities of the new government.

Democrats in the United States Congress have proposed a new law which would fully scrap the statute of limitations for federal civil sex abuse cases.

The proposed legislation has been named Virginia’s Law after Virginia Giuffre, who accused the…

Four people were killed overnight and at dawn on Thursday in separate shooting incidents in Arab towns in Israel, within about eight hours. The killings are the latest in a continuing rise in violent crime in the Arab…

Osama Hamdan, a leader in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on Wednesday that the joining of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, to the so-called…

Security forces in Buenos Aires fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon at protesters opposing proposed labour reforms. Unions say the bill would curb the right to strike and weaken worker protections. President Javier Milei…

Bangladesh’s leading political candidates have voted in a closely contested general election in Dhaka, pitting the Bangladesh Nationalist Party against a Jamaat-e-Islami-led coalition. It’s the country’s first election since the…

Lagos, Nigeria – Tunde Agando was paddling his way back to Makoko floating settlement in his canoe on a January afternoon, after taking his mother to the market, when he saw an amphibious excavator tearing down his family’s home.

Before he…

Bangladesh is voting in an election seen as pivotal for the nation’s future as it seeks to chart a democratic course in the wake of the 2024 ouster of longtime leader Sheikh Hasina in a student-led uprising…

Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani has accused Israel of attempting to sabotage negotiations with the United States over Tehran’s nuclear programme, so it can ignite a new war that would destabilise the…