Category: 3. Middle East

NICOSIA, Dec 16 (Reuters) – The key U.N. envoy seeking to ​break a deadlock in Cyprus’s ​long-running division said she was cautiously optimistic about a ⁠breakthrough but that it would be premature to convene a multi-nation summit on the…

SYDNEY, Dec 16 (Reuters) – While a Sydney shopowner is being hailed as a hero after ​disarming one of the gunmen shooting at a ​Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, a couple and another man who died after physically confronting…

SYDNEY, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Flowers were laid on Tuesday in front ​of the shuttered shop of Ahmed ​al Ahmed, the 43-year-old tobacco shop owner who locals hailed as ⁠the “Bondi hero” after he wrestled a gun from one of the attackers…

MANILA, Dec 16 (Reuters) – The Philippines Bureau of Immigration ​said on Tuesday that the ​two alleged gunmen behind the mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi ⁠Beach travelled to the Philippines on November 1 aboard Philippine Airlines Flight…

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Sudan has once again topped a watchlist ​of global humanitarian crises released ​by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organization, as warring sides press ⁠on with a conflict that has killed tens of…

By Christine Chen and Tom Bateman

SYDNEY, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Government authorities have not done enough to stamp ​out hatred of Jews in Australia, which has allowed ​it to fester in the aftermath of October 7, said the daughter of a Holocaust…

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is striving to persuade America and the other countries on the committee overseeing the cease-fire with Israel that the Lebanese army is devoting all its energy to removing Hezbollah’s arms and razing its facilities…

SYDNEY, Dec 16 (Reuters) – ​Australian police ​said on ⁠Tuesday that the two alleged gunmen behind ​the mass ‍shooting at ​Sydney’s Bondi Beach travelled to the Philippines ⁠last month, and that the reasons for their trip were under…