Category: 3. Middle East

Washington has announced new sanctions against Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, in an effort to pressure Moscow to agree to a peace deal in Ukraine. This marks the first time the current Trump administration has imposed…

Voters in Ireland will head to the polls on Friday to elect a new president for a seven-year term.

While the Irish presidency is a mostly ceremonial role, this election takes place amid a historic shift towards a more polarised political system,…

Israel’s parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill to impose Israeli sovereignty on the occupied West Bank, and to effectively annex the Palestinian territory. The US Vice-President JD Vance, who was visiting Israel, called it…

US President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on Russia’s top oil firms, Rosneft and Lukoil, to pressure Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on a ceasefire in Ukraine. The EU has also approved a 19th round of sanctions, with Russian…

A Russian drone has killed two Ukrainian journalists and wounded another in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, according to their outlet and the regional governor of the Donetsk region.

Freedom Media, a state-funded news organisation, said…

FIFA confirms change of name to Afghan Women United, dropping ‘refugee’ from the team name ahead of the tournament.

A FIFA-organised tournament involving the…

Democrat Zohran Mamdani clashed with Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in New York’s final mayoral debate, vowing to fight President Trump’s ICE raids and defend the city’s Jewish population while rejecting accusations of anti-Semitism.

A major fire swept through a neighbourhood in the metro area of the Philippines capital Manila, destroying more than 1,500 homes and displacing hundreds of families. The fire in Malabon City burned for over eight hours before it was…

The European Union is preparing to adopt a new round of sweeping sanctions against Russian energy exports on Thursday, a day after United States President Donald Trump imposed similar measures against Moscow amid setbacks to his efforts at…

On Sunday, the iconic Louvre Museum in the French capital played host to a speedy heist in which eight items of precious jewellery dating from the Napoleonic era were spirited away from its second floor.

The stolen items included a tiara…