Category: 2. Middle East

An Israeli university professor has declared a hunger strike in protest at her arrest for calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “traitor”, according to Israeli media.

The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday…

ANKARA, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte discussed Black Sea safety on Wednesday, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said, after Ankara expressed alarm at attacks on Russia-linked…

Adnan Abu Hasna, media adviser to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said the agency has procured large quantities of food, medicine and winter shelter materials — including hundreds of…

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has called for an immediate end to attacks on medical facilities in Sudan, warning that ongoing violence continues to deprive…

By Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche

OSLO, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Norway’s governing Labour Party said on Wednesday it had reached agreement with four left-wing parties in parliament on a 2026 fiscal budget, ending a standoff that had threatened to…

Israel has detained around 21,000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of its genocide in Gaza on 8 October 2023, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said on Tuesday. Thousands…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban administration and Pakistan have held fresh peace talks in Saudi Arabia and agreed to maintain a ceasefire, the latest attempt to dial down tensions between the South Asian neighbours. …

The details of the phone call between the US President and the Israeli Prime Minister were disclosed by Israeli television. According to US officials, the President raised several issues in which he wants Netanyahu to…

The Government Media Office in Gaza announced on Tuesday evening that the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli army fire has risen to 257 since the beginning of the Israeli genocide against the Gaza…

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution Tuesday that declares Israel’s continued occupation and de facto annexation of the Syrian Golan “illegal” and demands its withdrawal to the June 4, 1967 line, Anadolu…