Category: 3. Middle East

Sweeping economic and military sanctions on Iran lifted under a landmark international deal over its nuclear programme 10 years ago are set to be reimposed on Saturday night barring a last-minute breakthrough.

It comes after the UK, France and…

Pezeshkian says Iran won’t leave non-proliferation pact as UN sanctions set to return

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says that his country will not leave the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty even if UN sanctions come back…

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, as his opponent in the mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani, accused the premier of…

KIGALI, Rwanda – International Cycling Union (UCI) president David Lappartient insisted on Friday that sport cannot be “a tool of sanctions” as calls mount for Israel to be barred from sporting events.

The Vuelta a España grand tour,…

NEW YORK — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a defiant speech to a largely empty UN General Assembly hall on Friday, aggressively defending Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza, while excoriating world leaders who have…

Opposition leader Yair Lapid slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, saying it was all “gimmicks” and no clear policy.

“The world saw a tired and whining Israeli prime…

GENEVA — The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of firms from 11 countries that it claims are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the West…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has labelled the recognition of a Palestinian State as a “mark of shame” during a combative speech at the UN General Assembly in New York.

Dozens of officials and diplomats staged a walk-out as he took to…

BEIRUT – This time last year, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was consumed by rage over Israel’s detonation of pagers worn by members of the terror group throughout Lebanon, according to his son.

Days later, Nasrallah himself was…