Category: 3. Middle East

Governments around the world now owe nearly $100 trillion in public debt. That’s almost double what they owed just a decade ago.

The International Monetary Fund…

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), based in Jeddah, condemned on Wednesday evening the Israeli occupation authorities’ approval of 356 new settlement units in the occupied city of Jerusalem.

In a…

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has filed a complaint after she was groped by a man during a public street event. She said she brought the complaint on behalf of all Mexican women and called for a review of sexual harassment laws in…

A French-British investigation into alleged bribery at France-based defence giant Thales is examining a contract with Indonesia, an AFP investigation has showed.

In November last year, Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said it had launched a…

Russian forces have spread rapidly through Pokrovsk, the city in Ukraine’s east where the warring sides have concentrated their manpower and tactical ingenuity during the past week, in what may be a final culmination of a 21-month…

BAGHDAD Reuters) -Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a towering figure in Kurdish politics as Iraq heads into its November 11 election.

Though he no longer holds…

(Reuters) -Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Thursday that the group had “a legitimate right to resist (Israeli) occupation”, adding that the group would support the Lebanese army.

Hezbollah also said that, while Lebanon was bound by a ceasefire, it…

Olive harvest season is under way across the occupied West Bank.

In every Palestinian home, there is a “teta” – a grandmother and keeper of family traditions, who shares her recipes for using olives and tells stories of when the whole family…

A months-long siege on the Malian capital, Bamako, by the armed al-Qaeda affiliate group, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), has brought the city to breaking point, causing desperation among residents and, according to analysts,…