Category: 3. Middle East

NEW YORK — The NYPD said Tuesday that officers were investigating an attack on Hasidic Jews on a New York City subway car, in an incident captured on video.

In the footage from Monday, which has circulated on social media, two men…

By John Irish

PARIS, Dec 16 (Reuters) – The brother and lawyer of ​Iranian human rights activist and Nobel ​Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi said on Tuesday they have no information ⁠on her whereabouts or health, four days after her…

Mohamed Shahin, an Egyptian imam who heads a Muslim community in Turin, Italy, was ordered freed from custody this week by an Italian court following his arrest last month for defending Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel.

The…

By Mahmoud Hasano

NAYRAB, Syria, Dec 16 (Reuters) – As Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly ​30 years unfolded, a Sydney shopowner was ​captured on camera charging at one of the gunmen and disarming him. Halfway around ⁠the world in…

By Francois Murphy

VIENNA, Dec 16 (Reuters) – The host broadcaster of the next Eurovision Song ​Contest, Austria’s ORF, will not ban the ​Palestinian flag from the audience or drown out booing during Israel’s performance as has happened ⁠at…

ANKARA — Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog has launched an investigation into the television series “Jasmine,” citing concerns that the show violates “national values” and “exploits women,” in the latest scrutiny of digital content by…

Reuters — US President Donald Trump sued the BBC for up to $10 billion in damages over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the US Capitol, opening an international front in his fight against media…

KABUL, Dec 16 (Reuters) – The U.N. World Food Programme is ​unable for the first time ​in decades to provide effective aid to millions of Afghans ⁠suffering from malnutrition, with deaths especially among children likely to rise this…