Category: 2. Middle East

Palestinian student Razan Shawar has travelled for 24 hours to showcase her team’s AI-powered invention at World Robot Olympiad in Singapore, telling AFP innovation — not war — should be why people hear about her country.

The 15-year-old high…

Syria’s foreign minister called on Friday for the UN and Arab and Islamic nations to take action against Israel’s repeated attacks on its territory, condemning its strike on the town of Beit Jinn near Damascus as…

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed concern Thursday that a US-backed Gaza peace plan promoted by President Donald Trump could mask uncontrolled “experiments” on the occupied territory,…

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BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Israel on December 6 and 7 for his first official visit since taking office, a German government spokesperson said on Friday.

Merz is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Benjamin…

GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights rights office said on Friday it was appalled by the killing of two Palestinian men by Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank, saying the incident appeared to amount to summary executions.

“We’re…

Israeli forces killed 13 people on Friday in an operation in southern Syria, the deadliest since Bashar al-Assad’s fall from power nearly a year ago, which they said was targeting an Islamist group.

Since an Islamist coalition overthrew longtime…