Category: 3. Middle East

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…

By Rishika Sadam

HYDERABAD, India, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Indian police said ​on Tuesday that the dead ​gunman in Australia’s Bondi beach shooting incident, Sajid Akram, was ⁠originally from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad but had limited…

WARSAW, Poland — Polish security services have detained a student suspected of preparing a “mass attack” at a Christmas market, Jacek Dobrzynski, a spokesperson for Poland’s special services, said on Tuesday.

Mateusz W., a student…

TEHRAN — Iran’s rial slid further Monday to a new record low of more than 1.3 million to the US dollar, deepening the currency’s collapse less than two weeks after it first breached the 1.2-million mark amid sanctions pressure and…