Category: 3. Middle East

Ahmad Manasra, 23, has been released after completing nine-and-a-half-year sentence, lawyer says.

A Palestinian who was arrested at age 13 for allegedly taking part in a stabbing attack has been released after spending more than nine years in…

Fashion brand Prada has agreed to buy its smaller rival Versace for $1.38bn from Capri Holdings, bringing together two of the biggest names in Italian fashion and the prospect of enhanced revenues.

The deal was announced on Thursday.

Prada is…

US stocks sunk on Thursday, giving back some of the huge gains that followed President Donald Trump’s decision to temporarily lower his sweeping tariffs on dozens of countries, as investors assessed the status of his global trade war.

Trump’s…

An American Airlines plane carrying at least three members of the United States Congress has been struck on the taxiway by the wingtip of another American Airlines jet at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the Federal Aviation…

Washington and Tehran waged a war of words Thursday ahead of key talks in Oman after US President Donald Trump said military action was “absolutely” possible if the talks fail.

A senior adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that…

For detractors of Tunisia’s President Kais Saied, the trial of more than 40 opposition figures is quite clearly a further nail in the coffin of the country’s democracy – and the rule of law.

The defendants in the trial – which resumes on…

Israel has bombed one of Gaza’s only operational water desalination plants that was supplying clean drinking water to the strip. Many Palestinians now fear dying of thirst before being killed in the ongoing bombardment.

Lissu’s lawyer Rugemeleza Nshala said the charges against his client were politically driven.

A court in Tanzania has charged opposition party leader Tundu Lissu with treason after his arrest at a public rally in which he called for electoral…