Category: 2. World

The US has vetoed the UN Security Council’s draft resolution calling for an “unconditional and permanent” ceasefire in Gaza.

The other 14 members voted in favour of the document, which also demanded the release of all hostages and the lifting of…

More than 1.4 million Muslims have begun this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in the Saudi holy city of Mecca, a year after 1,300 people died, mostly due to the extreme heat.

Saudi authorities say they have stepped up safety precautions for the annual…

An almost 200-year-old condom – in “mint condition” – has just gone on display at an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

It is thought to be made of a sheep’s appendix and features an explicit print representing a nun and three clergymen.

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Tanzania has decided to block access to social media platform X because it allows pornographic content to be shared, the information minister has said.

The content was contrary to the East African state’s “laws, culture, customs, and traditions,”…

President Masoud Pezeshkian says that Iran considers convergence and unity among Muslim nations a religious and strategic duty.

Pezeshkian made these remarks on a telephone conversation with the Emir of Kuwait, Mishal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah,…

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says it will not agree to any ceasefire deal that does not guarantee a complete halt to Israel’s military offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Bassem Na’eem, a senior…

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had a “good conversation” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a call about Ukraine’s recent drone attack and Iran.

Following Ukraine’s major drone attack deep inside Russia, Trump reported that…