Category: 2. Middle East

A powerful winter storm sweeping the Gaza Strip has killed at least 12 Palestinians, including children, as torrential rain, freezing temperatures, and strong winds triggered deadly collapses of bombed-out buildings,…

Hamas has called on Amnesty International to withdraw a report accusing the Palestinian resistance of committing war crimes during the 7 October 2023 operation against the Gaza Division of the Israeli army, describing…

Ghana’s Foreign Minister, Samuel Okudzieto Ablako, said on Thursday that Israel has formally apologised for the deportation of three Ghanaian citizens, following a diplomatic dispute between the two…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has reaffirmed Russia’s willingness to help resolve the ongoing political crisis in Sudan, expressing Moscow’s readiness to play a role in facilitating dialogue between the…

BEIJING, Dec 12 (Reuters) – China said on Friday it had ​driven away a Philippine aircraft ​and multiple vessels near disputed atolls in South China Sea, ⁠in the latest in a series of confrontations in the strategic waterway in recent…

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has renewed his threat to demolish the tomb of Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, located in the village of Sheikh near Haifa in northern Israel, escalating tensions…

Israeli media have reported that the United States has barred senior European diplomats accredited to the Palestinian Authority from entering a US-run coordination centre linked to President Donald Trump’s plan for…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres condemned Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

In a report on Friday, Guterres said 2025 witnessed the largest growth in…

A humanitarian disaster unfolded off the coast of Greece, with seventeen migrants confirmed dead and fifteen still missing after a boat carrying thirty-four people sank near the island of Crete. Only two passengers…

By Dave Sherwood and Marianna Parraga

HAVANA/HOUSTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – A U.S. move this week to seize an oil tanker out of ​Venezuela is poised to make a bad situation worse for a ​crisis-stricken Cuba already struggling to source enough…