Category: 3. Middle East

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday a formal agreement had been reached for Turkey to host the COP31 climate summit in 2026, confirming a document released at the COP30 summit in Brazil.

A statement issued…

Five leaders of opposition parties joined some 2,000 protesters who packed into Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Saturday night to demand a state commission of inquiry into the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023.

The protest took place…

A Yemenite synagogue in a town in central Israel was vandalized on Friday ahead of Shabbat, according to footage circulating on social media.

Israel Police said Saturday that officers opened an investigation into the incident, though no…

The owner of The Daily Mail, a leading UK tabloid, struck a £500 million ($654 million) deal with US-UAE consortium RedBird IMI for the purchase of The Daily Telegraph newspaper, The Daily Mail and General Trust said Saturday.

“DMGT has…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said 21 people were killed and dozens more wounded in multiple Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian territory on Saturday, further straining the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas.

Both sides have accused each…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed at least 14 people and wounded several others, local health authorities said on Saturday, in a further test of a fragile ceasefire between the Palestinian militant group Hamas…

An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed one person on Saturday, Lebanon’s health ministry said, in the latest attack despite a nearly year-long ceasefire between Israel and militant group Hezbollah.

In a statement, the ministry attributed the…

PRAGUE — Antisemitic incidents in the Czech Republic reached record levels last year amid Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the country’s Jewish community said on Friday.

In its annual report, the Federation of the Jewish…