Category: 3. Middle East

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain set out plans on Monday to toughen its asylum system, with measures such as making refugee status temporary and reinterpreting human rights laws to make it easier to deport migrants who arrive illegally.

The moves are a…

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Tim Cocks and Nellie Peyton

CAIRO (Reuters) -Gazans said they paid $2,000 per seat to fly their families to South Africa on a trip arranged by a group offering…

South Africa said Monday the surprise arrival of 153 Palestinians on a plane last week indicated “a clear agenda to cleanse Palestinians” out of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

The group landed in Johannesburg on a chartered flight on Thursday…

More than 288,000 families in Gaza are enduring a shelter crisis as Israeli restrictions on humanitarian supplies worsen conditions for Palestinians displaced by the war, the territory’s Government Media Office says.

Local authorities said in a…

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – Every morning for Israa Abu Reyala and her husband, Mohammad, is a battle to find decent food for their five daughters, the youngest three of whom are triplets born during the war.

The ceasefire agreement, which took effect…

Firefighters in northeastern Italy are searching for two people missing after a mudslide tore through a home overnight in Brazzano di Cormons. A woman and a 35-year-old German man who lives locally remain unaccounted for. One person has…

China is warning its citizens against traveling to Japan as it retaliates over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent comments on Taiwan. Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu explains.

Shabana Mahmood, the United Kingdom’s home secretary, has said the country’s asylum system is “not working” and is placing “intense strain on communities” ahead of proposals for major government reforms that would end refugees’…

Emirates announced Monday that it placed an order for 65 additional Boeing 777-9 aircraft, worth $38 billion, on the opening day of Dubai Airshow 2025, Anadolu reports.

Emirates is Boeing’s largest customer for…

By Simon Lewis

WASHINGTON -The UN Security Council was set to vote later on Monday on a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza and authorizing an international stabilization force for the Palestinian…