Category: 3. Middle East

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba — The death toll from Hurricane Melissa rose on Thursday to nearly 50 people, officials said, after the ferocious storm devastated Caribbean islands and was bearing down on Bermuda.

Flooding was expected to subside…

Fenerbahce’s upcoming EuroLeague home games against Israeli basketball teams Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv have been moved to Munich next month due to security concerns, the Turkish club said on Wednesday.

The matches, originally…

Released hostage Alon Ohel appeared at the end of the satirical comedy show “Eretz Nehederet” for a moment of sincerity, playing the piano as the cast sang David Broza’s “Under the Sky.”

Host Eyal Kitzis noted that having Ohel…

An internal probe has concluded that the military failed to defend the Gaza border community of Ein Habesor during Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel, leaving the moshav’s residents to fend off an armed onslaught…

Repression in Iran worsened after 12-day war with Israel in June, UN probe finds

United Nations factfinders denounce Iran’s intensification of oppression since the country’s 12-day war with Israel in June, noting more than…

Hamas returned to Israel on Thursday the remains of two deceased hostages, Amiram Cooper, 84, and Sahar Baruch, 25, with Israeli authorities confirming their identities within hours.

Military representatives notified their families of the…

Two Jewish-American women who were participating in an initiative to help Palestinian farmers harvest their olive crop in the northern West Bank were detained on Wednesday by security forces, and deportation processes were initiated against…