Category: 3. Middle East

By Olivia Le Poidevin

GENEVA (Reuters) -A special session on the situation in al-Fashir, Sudan, opened on Friday at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva following grave concerns about mass killings during the fall of the city to paramilitary…

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO (Reuters) -From regulating the price of chicken to levying fees on cigarettes, Hamas is seeking to widen control over Gaza as U.S. plans for its future slowly take shape, Gazans say, adding to rivals’ doubts over whether…

AP — By the time Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl, he had established an enormous network of wealthy and influential friends. Emails made public this week show the criminal conviction…

With the US considering the sale of F-35 fighters to Saudi Arabia, there are concerns in the American intelligence community that the jets’ sensitive technology could reach China while at the same time upsetting the balance of power in…

LONDON (AP) — The BBC apologized Thursday to US President Donald Trump over a misleading edit of his speech on January 6, 2021, but said it had not defamed him, rejecting the basis for his $1 billion lawsuit threat.

The BBC said Chair…

Ahmad al-Nahal was scrolling social media recently when he came across a posted plea that caught his attention. As the director of the Gaza Children Village organization, which houses, educates and feeds about 2,100 orphaned children in the…