Category: 3. Middle East

ROME — A 15th-century Bible, which is considered one of the most spectacular examples of Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, went on display in Rome earlier this month as part of the Vatican’s Holy Year celebrations.

The two-volume…

A UN committee urged Israel on Friday to set up an independent investigatory commission to probe claims of torture of Palestinians, and warned the situation had “gravely intensified” since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led invasion of…

Israeli airlines were largely unaffected by Airbus’s emergency software recall, which it ordered Friday for thousands of its best-selling A320 passenger jets in a move that temporarily grounded some 6,000 planes, disrupting flights…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO, Nov 29 (Reuters) – The number of people confirmed killed in Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip has passed the 70,000 mark, the enclave’s health ministry said on Saturday.

A total of 301 people have been added to the…

A prominent Tunisian activist was arrested on Saturday as hundreds protested in the capital against the curtailing of freedoms, an AFP journalist and lawyers said.

The protest in Tunis came a day after a mass appeal trial saw some 40 public…

By Tarek Amara

TUNIS, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Tunisian police arrested prominent opposition figure Chaima Issa at a protest in the capital Tunis on Saturday to enforce a 20-year prison sentence, her lawyers said.

An appeals court handed jail terms of up…

President Ahmed al-Sharaa visited Syria’s northern city of Aleppo Saturday as the country marks a year since a lightning Islamist-led offensive that eventually toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last December.

The Islamist alliance, led by…

Pole-sitter Oscar Piastri won Saturday’s sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix with his McLaren teammate and title favourite Lando Norris third.

Norris now leads Piastri by 22 points and the Briton can claim his maiden Formula One crown if results…

The Israeli military declared an area near the West Bank city of Bethlehem a closed military zone following a settler attack that wounded several Palestinians. The Palestinian Red Crescent said one of the injured people had been…