Category: 3. Middle East

Nahid Islam was just 26 when he stepped up to a microphone at Dhaka’s Shaheed Minar, a national monument, on August 3, 2024, and uttered a single rallying cry: “Hasina must go.”

Student-led demonstrations had begun weeks earlier over a…

Voters in Bangladesh will head to the polls on Thursday for the country’s first parliamentary elections since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted following her brutal crackdown on widespread student-led protests in 2024, which…

Nuseirat, Gaza Strip – Nibal Abu Armana sits in her tent, where she has been teaching her seven-year-old son, Mohammed, basic literacy and numbers.

Nibal, a 38-year-old mother of six, is forced to rely on the dim light from a battery-powered LED…

ISTANBUL, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan replaced the country’s justice and interior ministers in a mini reshuffle on Wednesday, with Istanbul chief prosecutor Akin Gurlek taking the role of justice minister, the Official…

Israeli government moves to change rules around land registration in the West Bank, making it easier for Israeli Jews to buy property in the illegally occupied territory, are raising alarm among Palestinians, fearful that the new rules will…

At least 27 people have been injured in the shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in remote town near the Rocky Mountains.

Police use force against protesters in Albania’s capital, Tirana, amid calls for Prime Minister Edi Rama to step down.

Police…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will push Donald Trump on Wednesday to take a tougher stance in nuclear talks with Iran, after rushing to Washington to stiffen the US president’s resolve.

Trump said on the eve of the hastily arranged…

Gezani has hit just 11 days after Cyclone Fytia killed 12 people and displaced 31,000 in northwestern Madagascar.

Madagascar’s national weather service has said that hurricane-force winds and heavy rains are…

The shooting occurred at a high school in Tumbler Ridge, in Canada’s province of British Columbia, police said.

The Royal…