Category: 3. Middle East

When Liberia’s government signed an agreement with a little-known Dubai company run by a royal sheikh in 2023, the “carbon credit” deal promised to protect vast tracts of forests and offset big polluters’ emissions.

It was one of a flurry of deals…

(Reuters) -Israel’s expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps in early 2025 amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, calling for urgent international…

JTA — The phrase “Next year in Jerusalem” is customarily spoken at the end of the Passover seder. But this past weekend its sentiment was conveyed at the end of a different kind of gathering: a low-scoring NFL game between the Miami…

By Matt Spetalnick, Patricia Zengerle and Simon Lewis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -When President Donald Trump defended Saudi Arabia’s crown prince this week over the 2018 killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he did more than just stir…

A study from the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Immunotherapy Research Center released this week highlights the discovery of a new class of immune-activating molecules that could help the body’s immune system fight cancer.

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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia has agreed to allow Turkey to host next year’s COP31 climate summit, but Canberra will lead the conference’s negotiations among governments, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday.

“So what we’ve come up with…

CMCC, Kiryat Gat — A truck laden with humanitarian aid winds slowly through a crowded street.

Above the black-and-white drone footage displayed on a massive screen, a color map shows a thin yellow line dividing Hamas-controlled Gaza from…

A US and Saudi citizen who was jailed in Riyadh over tweets that were critical of the Saudi government has been allowed to return home to Florida.

Saad Ibrahim Almadi’s son said that the return of the 75-year-old retired engineer was made possible…

BELEM, Brazil/CANBERRA (Reuters) -Turkey would host next year’s UN climate summit while Australia would lead the conference’s negotiations among governments, under a compromise deal that three sources familiar with the matter said was taking…

By Andrea Shalal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The world’s 20 largest economies will grow by just 2.9% in 2030 amid headwinds from protectionism and policy uncertainty, their weakest medium-term outlook since the global financial crisis of 2009, the…