カテゴリー: Middle East and North Africa
Row may signal that newly elected Tehran government is willing to take tougher line with MoscowIran’s new reformist government has warned Russia against siding with Azerbaijan in a border dispute as concerns in Tehran persist over its relations with Mo…
With more than 70 people reportedly killed by rebels this week, Dr Mahrang Baloch’s effective and non-violent protests against Pakistan’s government are rapidly gaining supportOn the morning of 26 August, about three dozen armed men intercepted traffic…
New vice and virtue restrictions offer ‘a distressing vision of Afghanistan’s future’, says UNNew Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human right…
City’s mayor says Israel not invited because of risk of protests at event honouring victims of 1945 nuclear blastThe US ambassador to Japan will skip this year’s memorial service for the nuclear attack on Nagasaki because Israel has not been invited, t…
Diplomatic coup for China as Beijing declaration sets out deal to unite across territories and prepare for electionsLeaders from Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian factions have agreed after three days of talks in Beijing to form a national unity gover…
More than 1,000 days after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, women and girls are reluctantly seeking education elsewhereRelief set in the moment Hasina crossed the border into Iran. For two years, the Taliban barred the 24-year-old medical stude…
In advance of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced conflict, discrimination and a lack of funding to stand as their countries’ only female qualifiers in their chosen fieldsOne of Alexandra Ndolo’s greatest career achieve…
Saudi authorities said they sent away unregistered pilgrims but many appear to have taken part without access to cooler spacesThe death toll from this year’s hajj has exceeded 1,000, with more than half of the victims unregistered worshippers who perfo…
Exclusive: critics say British American Tobacco’s plan to ‘flood a country in crisis with cheap cigarettes’ is ‘shameful’A subsidiary of British American Tobacco is lobbying the government of Pakistan to allow it to export 10-packs of cigarettes to war…
Greek court says it has no jurisdiction to hear case as disaster happened in international watersA Greek court has thrown out charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks, ruling it has no jurisdi…
Human-caused climate crisis brought soaring temperatures across Asia, from Gaza to Delhi to ManilaThe record-breaking heatwave that scorched the Philippines in April would have been impossible without the climate crisis, scientists have found. Searing …
Beijing joins France in urging Israel against Rafah offensive in latest effort to make its diplomatic markXi Jinping, sensing a diplomatic opening, is stepping up China’s intervention in the Middle East crisis, issuing a joint statement with the French…
While the US flounders in a conflict it did not foresee, emerging powers see a chance for new voices to join the top tableNot long ago a picture circulated from inside Gaza showing smoke billowing from the explosion of a US-supplied bomb, and discernib…
As the Gulf kingdom bids to host a World Cup that will see its reliance on cheap foreign labour soar, planeloads of men already return daily to Dhaka, gaunt, dazed and brokeAmong the joyful family reunions at the arrivals gate at Dhaka’s internationa…