カテゴリー: Middle East and North Africa
Cheney, who served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush, will be remembered for controversial role after 9/11Dick Cheney, the divisive US vice-president under George W Bush who helped lead the country into a disastrous invasion of Iraq, died on…
Families of some aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla say they are being held without access to clean water or legal representationActivists from New Zealand detained in Israel after they were removed from vessels carrying aid to Gaza are being held in poo…
Tehran considers move as part of multi-pronged offensive after bombing of nuclear sites and restoration of sanctionsIran is considering releasing hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees across its western borders with Iraq and Turkey. It would be part…
New York meeting of Hague Group warns of shared responsibility to prevent genocide and proposes steps to isolate IsraelThe international community has a legal and moral duty to deny Israel “the tools of genocide”, the Malaysian foreign minister, Mohama…
US president’s speech made a mockery of UN values and highlights the need for strong anti-Trumpian alliancesSuch is the gravitational pull cast by Donald Trump and the US economy that the politics of the other 192 countries that make up the United Nati…
Barbie and Peter Reynolds have been freed after being detained without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since February, where for a long period they were separated and held in a maximum-security prison. The couple had lived in Afghanistan for nearl…
Deal with nuclear-armed Pakistan comes as Gulf Arab states worry about US reliability while Saudi official says pact isn’t responding to ‘specific events’Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a formal mutual defence pact in a move that si…
Educators working in extremely challenging conditions in Lebanon, Niger, Ukraine and Afghanistan explain what drives them onMohamad El Dirany, 24 Continue reading…
Security ministry and the ministries of health and foreign affairs have met to discuss how the controversial proposal to treat Palestinians would workThe Indonesian government is working on plans to treat 2,000 people from war-ravaged Gaza, holding a s…
Trump-brokered peace treaty predicted to suffocate geopolitical influence of Washington’s rivals in regionIran expressed concern about foreign interference on Saturday, fearing it had been carved out of a declaration brokered by Donald Trump between Az…
Muslim-majority Indonesia says the plan to treat wounded Palestinians in island’s medical facility is a temporary and patients will return to GazaIndonesia will convert a medical facility on an uninhabited island to treat about 2,000 wounded residents …
Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, without a male ‘guardian’, they cannot work or rent a home, leaving them in poverty and open to abuseSafia* thought she had finally found safety …
The British government’s secret scheme to bring those at risk to the UK has dominated headlines, but, worldwide, many times more are losing protectionThe British public discovered only very belatedly that an enormous accidental data breach by an offici…
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Berlin says incident risked lives of military personnel protecting Red Sea shippingThe German foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador in Berlin after a Chinese warship used a laser to target a German aircraft taking part in an EU operation…