Category: 3. Middle East

Five European countries say lab tests conclude that Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was killed in 2024 by a rare dart frog toxin while serving a 19-year sentence in a Siberia prison. Moscow rejects the claim as Western…

Proposal submitted by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and others, public broadcaster Kan reports.

The Israeli…

The southern Gaza hospital says MSF issued statements that ‘misrepresent facts and mirror narratives historically used to justify’ Israeli attacks.

United States President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have solidified a strategy of “maximum pressure” against Iran, targeting the country’s vital oil exports to China, even as deep rifts emerge regarding the…

The Syrian Army has taken over the Al-Shaddadi military base in the countryside of Hasakah in northeastern Syria, following coordination with the US, the Defense Ministry said Sunday, Anadolu reports.

The army assumed…

A lone gunman in Montenegro kills 13 people. In Sweden, gun homicides surge, becoming the highest in Western Europe. The link: Balkan…

The start of this year’s Berlin Film Festival was marked by a row over how far film should venture into politics but for prominent French-Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass, “everything we do is a political act”.

Abbass is starring in two films being…

Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that Israeli strikes killed at least 12 people since dawn on Sunday, while a military official said the attacks were in response to ceasefire violations.

Despite a US-brokered truce that entered its second…