Category: 3. Middle East

Once lauded as a remedy for Ethiopia’s advancing desertification, a non-native tree has transformed into an uncontrolled menace across the East African country, endangering delicate ecosystems and threatening the existence of local…

The Israeli air force has set up a ‘target bank’ in the occupied West Bank, close to the Jordanian border, in case of any future escalation, Hebrew media reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, the air…

By Parisa Hafezi

DUBAI (Reuters) -On Tehran’s bustling streets, signs of change are unmistakable. Women walk unveiled in jeans and sneakers, men and women linger together in cafés where Western music hums softly, and couples stroll hand-in-hand…

Conditions at Syrian al-Hol and al-Roj camps are “inhuman, dangerous, and degrading”, independent report says, urging UK to comply with international obligations.

The United Kingdom government should voluntarily facilitate the return of former…

The UN health agency warns that recent progress in tackling the disease is under threat due to a shortfall in critical aid.

Tuberculosis deaths have fallen by 3…

Amid a record-setting government shutdown and Democratic wins in an off-year election, President Donald Trump has floated a series of unusual policy ideas.

Fifty-year mortgages? Paying Americans, instead of insurers, for health coverage? Dividends…

The West Bank has witnessed an unprecedented increase in violent attacks carried out by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, amid what observers describe as widespread leniency from Prime Minister Benjamin…

By Peter Hobson and Valerie Volcovici

CANBERRA/BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) – Australia risks undermining efforts to establish itself as a leader in the green energy transition and letting down its vulnerable Pacific island neighbours if its bid to…

The treaty, which comes more than 220 years after the state was colonised, creates an assembly and truth-telling body.

The first treaty between Indigenous people and…

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and army chief Eyal Zamir have condemned burgeoning Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in a rare public rebuke of what has become a daily cycle of violence often backed by the…