Category: 2. Middle East

Liam Lawson on Thursday reflected on a “crazy” start to his first full season in Formula One.

Axed after just two races by Red Bull he was demoted to their sister team RB for last weekend’s race in Japan, with Yuki Tsunoda replacing him as Max Verstappen’s teammate.

“Obviously it’s been a crazy couple of weeks and months and a lot of it has been not the most enjoyable,” confessed the young New Zealander.

Lawson is preparing for his second run out with the RB team he had 11 races with last…

US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will be in Oman for breakthrough talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme this weekend.

Here are short profiles of the two negotiators:

– Witkoff: real estate to world stage –

With no prior experience in foreign policy, he landed one of the world’s biggest jobs as US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, and has since led high-stakes talks on Gaza and Ukraine.

Real estate magnate Steve Witkoff first…

Sudan told the International Court of Justice on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates was the “driving force” behind what it called a genocide in Darfur via its alleged support for rebels fighting the Sudanese army.

Khartoum has dragged the UAE before the ICJ, accusing it of complicity in genocide against the Masalit community through their backing of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that have been battling the Sudanese army since 2023.

The UAE denies supporting the rebels and has…

ANKARA — Turkish police on Thursday detained two prominent journalists — Timur Soykan and Murat Agirel — in dawn raids amid a crackdown on dissent that accelerated following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and the ensuing protests.

Soykan and Agirel, investigative journalists working for left-leaning newspapers BirGun and Cumhuriyet, respectively, were taken into custody from their homes in Istanbul in the early hours of the morning over accusations of “threat” and…