Category: 3. Middle East

Deep in the Abu Dhabi desert, a vast AI campus a quarter the size of Paris is starting to emerge, the oil-rich UAE’s boldest bet yet on technology it hopes will help transform its economy.

Towering cranes clank as long, low buildings take shape…

Here are Wednesday’s latest updates from Israel, Gaza and the Middle East:

■ Two Palestinians, one 13 years old, were shot by the Israeli military in a refugee camp near Ramallah, the Red Crescent said.

■ Israel is expected to reopen the…

After halting funding for the Ophir Awards following the September ceremony that gave its top prize to a film about a Palestinian boy, Culture Minister Miki Zohar announced this week an alternative film award ceremony that will take place…

DOHA, Qatar — While US President Donald Trump’s administration succeeded in rallying much of the Arab and Muslim world around its Gaza peace plan, convincing those countries to contribute troops to the force needed to operationalize…

Knesset speaker, US counterpart launch joint initiative to nominate Trump for future Nobel Peace Prize

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and US House Majority Leader Mike Johnson announce a joint initiative to mobilize their counterparts…

Scotland’s Nnena Kalu took home the Turner Prize on Tuesday, with the autistic artist beating four competitors including an Iraqi painter to the prestigious contemporary art award.

Glasgow-born Kalu, 59, was nominated for her hanging sculptures…

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with James Pasch, the Anti-Defamation League’s vice president of litigation.

Pasch is…

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 9 (Reuters) – United Nations ​Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ​condemns a referral by Yemen’s Houthis ⁠of some of the dozens of U.N. staff they have detained to a ​special criminal court, his ‍spokesperson said on…

Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar on Tuesday called for the government to establish a state commission of inquiry into the failures surrounding Hamas’s October 7 attack, lobbing implicit criticism at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his…