Category: 3. Middle East

One child was shot while sitting on her mother’s lap. Another was hit by an airstrike as he stepped inside his home. Two others were killed while playing outside with friends.

Alleged Israeli gunfire has killed at least 18 children under…

Iran does not plan to immediately resume nuclear talks with European nations after they reimposed sanctions, its foreign ministry said on Monday.

Britain, France and Germany, signatories to Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal, reimposed sanctions on…

TEHRAN — An Iranian court on Monday announced the acquittal of Lennart Monterlos, a French-German national accused of espionage and arrested in June during the war between Israel and Iran.

The decision followed an earlier announcement by…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — A US-Japanese trio on Monday won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for research into how the immune system is kept in check by identifying its “security guards,” the Nobel jury said.

The discoveries by Mary E….

AFP — France’s new prime minister resigned on Monday after less than a month in office, sinking the country further into a political crisis and piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to find a way out of the deadlock.

Sebastien…

PARIS, France — An Egyptian antiquities professor and ex-tourism minister is facing off against a Congolese economist who promoted schooling in refugee camps in a race to become the new director of UNESCO.

Whoever wins will inherit a…

Eli Sharabi spent 16 months in filthy tunnels under the Gaza Strip with his legs chained, surviving on moldy pita. Two years after the Hamas onslaught that started the war in Gaza, he fears a fellow hostage he came to think of as an adopted…