カテゴリー: Middle East and North Africa
Pakistani government had credited US president with ‘pivotal leadership’ in its ceasefire negotiations with IndiaMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump’s intervention into the Iran-Israel war, and brokering then announcing a ceasefire, has drawn…
Leaders of UAE, Qatar and Oman criticise attack and urge de-escalation as EU and UN call for immediate diplomacyMiddle East crisis – latest updatesCountries in the Middle East and beyond responded with alarm after US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites as…
Nattapong Pinta had been seized in the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack and killed, according to Israeli militaryThe Israeli military has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage, Nattapong Pinta, who had been held in Gaza since Hamas’s attack on 7 October …
Caracas describes US government as fascist, Somalia vows to address security and Iranian Americans express regretUS politics live – latest updatesVenezuela has hit back over the Trump administration’s travel ban by warning that the US is a dangerous pl…
With a record number of journalists killed over the past year, four reporters covering conflicts across the world reveal how they dodge death• ‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s IndiaStephen*, 39, is a…
Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri had visa revoked and was arrested by immigration officials in MarchThe Georgetown academic Badar Khan Suri was released from Ice detention hours after a Virginia federal judge’s order on Wednesday.Khan Sur…
Pressure grows on Fifa as reports warn of serious risk to workers amid Saudi World Cup building boom
Two reports published today catalogue ‘gruesome yet avoidable accidents’ on construction sites despite the Gulf kingdom’s claims that work-related deaths have fallenThousands of migrant workers are likely to die in Saudi Arabia as a result of a buildin…
The rules-based world order is in retreat and violence is on the rise, forcing countries to rethink their relationshipsIn a week in which former allies in a redividing globe separately commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world wa…
World now in era of repressive regimes’ impunity, climate inaction and unchecked corporate power, says reportThe first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency have “supercharged” a global rollback of human rights, pushing the world towards an authoritari…
Loss of USAid funds will sow ‘chaos and confusion’ and force independent media outlets to shut down, says RSF Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze will lead to a decline in the number of independent media outlets across the world, causing a surge in misin…
The group of five workers were greeted at Bangkok airport by overjoyed family members and officials after being held for over a year in GazaSee all our Middle East coverageThe families of five Thai farm workers held hostage in Gaza for over a year wept…
Five of the last six Thai nationals have been released by Hamas. For one nine-year-old, the agonising wait continues for the return of his father Narissara Jantasang’s nine-year-old son was brimming with excitement as he watched footage of Thai hostage…
Wiwwaeo Sriaoun, whose son Watchara is one of six Thais held by Hamas, says ceasefire deal has given her more hopeMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe mother of a Thai man held in Gaza has pleaded for her son to be freed, saying the ceasefire deal betw…