Category: 3. Middle East

The British government has issued an unreserved apology and paid £225,000 ($285,000) in libel damages to Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin. The Muslim community leader, who has lived in the UK since 1973 and been a British…

A group of military officers in Guinea-Bissau have claimed “total control” of the country, a day after the top candidates in a tightly contested presidential…

BEIRUT — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun announced on Tuesday that FIFA President Gianni Infantino would be granted Lebanese citizenship, sparking outrage on social media at a time Lebanese women are still unable to pass citizenship on to their…

South Africa secured a declaration from the rest of the G20, despite United States objections.

Washington boycotted the meeting…

The controversial US-Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is closing operations, after five months of massacres, stampedes and chaos. Despite that, the GHF says it did its job “successfully.” Soraya Lennie explains the…

United States President Donald Trump is sending Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow next week, while Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll is expected to meet Ukrainian officials in the coming days, as Washington intensifies diplomatic efforts to end…

ANKARA — An Istanbul court on Wednesday sentenced prominent journalist Fatih Altayli to four years and two months in prison over comments deemed threatening to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Altayli will remain behind bars pending…

At least 13 people have been killed in a fire that has engulfed several high-rise apartment buildings in Hong Kong, authorities say, with some residents reported trapped inside.

Flames took hold in several apartment blocks of the Wang Fuk Court…

India and China are locked in a war of words after a months-long period of calm in their relationship over the alleged harassment of a woman from India’s eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh by Chinese authorities.

China claims the territory of…

Athens, Greece – Days before a new United States-led peace proposal diverted his attention, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens, where the two leaders announced plans to cooperate “on…