Category: 3. Middle East

BROOKLINE, Massachusetts — A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old…

SYDNEY, Dec ​17 (Reuters) – ​The Australian ⁠state parliament of New ​South ‍Wales will ​reconvene next week to ⁠discuss urgent legislation on gun control in ​the wake ⁠of ⁠the deadly Bondi shootings ‌and consider ​protest…

Dec 17 (Reuters) – Among the 15 victims of a mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach targeting an event for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah were two who tried to thwart the attack, and others who ​died shielding friends and family, according…

The Eurovision Song Contest heads into its 70th anniversary edition next year mired in its biggest-ever political boycott, with five countries staying away over Israel’s participation.

Eurovision organisers announced Monday that 35 countries would…

President Donald Trump has expanded a US travel ban, barring nationals of five additional countries and people travelling on Palestinian Authority-issued documents from entering the US.

The White House said the restrictions were intended “to…

By Asif Shahzad and Ariba Shahid

ISLAMABAD, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s most powerful military chief in decades faces the toughest test of his newly ​amassed powers as Washington pushes Islamabad to contribute troops to the ​Gaza…

Six members of Canada’s parliament traveling from Jordan were denied entry to the West Bank on Tuesday by Israeli authorities who accused the delegation of being sponsored by “a terror entity.”

Ontario Member of Parliament Iqra…

First funerals for victims of Hanukkah attack to be held at Chabad of Bondi Synagogue

Australia is set to hold the first funerals for victims of the Bondi Beach mass terror shooting, with huge crowds expected to grieve two rabbis…

PARIS — Iranian authorities are refusing to allow an independent medical examination of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi after she was beaten during her arrest last week, her family said on Tuesday.

Her brother Hamid Reza…