Category: 3. Middle East

The President of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry, has been censured by fellow Olympians over her recent comments saying athletes shouldn’t be paid prize money at the Games.

Coventry, who represented Zimbabwe at five Olympics…

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday it taking 76 persons, vessels and entities off its sanctions blacklist that it said were outdated, a move it said would help crack down on sanctions evasion on complex…

JERUSALEM, May 28 (Reuters) – Ben-Gurion International Airport, Israel’s main air gateway near Tel Aviv, is operating at about one-third of capacity due to the presence of U.S. refuelling aircraft, threatening heavy flight cancellations this…

BRUSSELS, May 28 (Reuters) – The EU Council on Thursday imposed sanctions on four entities and three individuals for abuses against Palestinians in West Bank, it said in a statement.

The list includes what the EU Council called extremist Israeli…

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. and Iran have reached an agreement on a 60-day memorandum of understanding to extend the ceasefire and launch negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, but President Donald Trump still needs to give final…

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WASHINGTON — A new groundbreaking report suggests Uyghur…

Michele Spagnuolo allegedly used insider information to profit from bets on people on Google’s most-searched list.

A Google software engineer has been charged with fraud by US authorities after allegedly using…

Parisians cooled off in the city’s Saint-Martin canal as an unprecedented heatwave pushed temperatures across Europe far above seasonal norms. Swimmers ignored long-standing bans, swimming outside designated bathing sites.

WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday issued new Iran-related sanctions by adding the Persian Gulf Strait Authority to its Specially Designated Nationals list, the Treasury Department’s website showed.

The authority is a…