Category: 3. Middle East

LONDON/NAIROBI, Feb 14 (Reuters) – A feud between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates across the Horn of Africa is overshadowing this weekend’s African Union summit, though most of the continent’s leaders will try to avoid taking sides,…

BEIRUT, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, one of the country’s best-known politicians, indicated on Saturday that his party would contestupcoming elections, four years after he stepped back from public office.

In a…

By Humeyra Pamuk

MUNICH, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Iranian opposition figure Reza Pahlavi on Saturday said U.S. military intervention in Iran could save lives and urged President Donald Trump’s administration not to spend too long negotiating with…

MUNICH, Feb 14 (Reuters) – The European Union should “bring to life” a mutual defence pact anchored in its founding treaty, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

“Mutual defence is…

BUDAPEST, Feb 15 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday called “troubling” a report by five European allies blaming Russia for killing late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny using toxin from poison dart frogs, adding that…

But in an interview with the BBC in Tehran, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, said the ball was “in America’s court to prove that they want to do a deal”, adding: “If they are sincere, I’m sure we will be on the road to an…

For nearly two decades, a European Union mission meant to train and assist Palestinian border agents at the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt was little more than a shell, downsized after two years of operation to a skeleton staff after…

BERLIN, Germany — The head of the Berlin Film Festival has sought to draw a line under a row over whether filmmakers should take political stances that has marked the opening days of the event.

In a statement released late Saturday,…