Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman arrived in Tehran on Thursday for meetings with officials in a visit ahead of weekend talks between Iran and the United States over the
April 17, 2025
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sent his foreign minister to Moscow on Thursday with a letter for President Vladimir Putin to brief
April 17, 2025
Russia’s Supreme Court has lifted a ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban, who were designated as a terrorist group more than two decades ago
April 17, 2025
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani told Russian President Vladimir Putin at talks in the Kremlin on Thursday that Syria's new leader was keen to build
April 17, 2025
Saudi defense minister visits Iran in highest-level trip in decades as nuclear talks proceed
April 17, 2025
Turkey's central bank hiked its key interest rate by 350 basis points to 46% on Thursday, in a surprise move that reversed an easing cycle and
April 17, 2025
When resettlement programs were cut, Philadelphia area neighbors stepped up to help Afghan refugee
April 17, 2025
The UN nuclear watchdog should play a role in nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said on Thursday, ahead of a second
April 17, 2025
The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday denied media reports they were involved in talks with the U.S. over a possible land offensive by military factions in Yemen
April 16, 2025
The Lebanese military says it has detained several people linked to firing rockets into Israel last month
April 17, 2025
A portrait of a young Palestinian boy who lost both arms as a result of an Israeli attack in Gaza has been named World Press Photo of the year
April 17, 2025
The Gaza Strip is strewn with undetonated explosives from tens of thousands of Israeli air strikes,
April 17, 2025
As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24
April 17, 2025
U.S.
April 16, 2025
Iranian state television has confirmed that the second round of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks will be held in Rome after earlier confusion over where the negotiations would take place
April 16, 2025
U.S.
April 16, 2025
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met Russian nationals freed from captivity in the Gaza strip after militant group Hamas' October 2023 attacks on Israel and said Moscow's
April 16, 2025
Israel’s defense minister says its troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, after Israel unilaterally expanded its frontiers in the war unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack
April 16, 2025
Israel’s defense minister says troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely
April 16, 2025
A dog has been reunited with an Israeli family after the pet vanished for 18 months in Gaza
April 16, 2025
The United States on Wednesday issued new sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports, including against a China-based "teapot" oil refinery, as President Donald
April 16, 2025
U.S.
April 16, 2025
The Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a Chinese oil refinery that's accused of purchasing more than $1 billion worth of Iranian oil
April 16, 2025
A notorious paramilitary group fighting against the Sudanese military says its forming a rival government that will rule parts of the country controlled by the group, including the western Darfur region
April 16, 2025
The Lebanese army said on Wednesday it had detained a number of Palestinians and Lebanese suspected of involvement in two attacks from the country on Israel in March and did not
April 16, 2025
The man charged with setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor's mansion while the governor and his family were there sleeping told police he did it because of the governor's
April 16, 2025
Suspect in arson at Pennsylvania governor’s home targeted the governor for his views on war in Gaza, warrant says
April 16, 2025
A top Emirati diplomat said the Gulf state was disappointed at the failure of a London conference this week to find consensus on ending the
April 16, 2025
The Maldives has banned Israeli passport holders from entering its territory, the president's office said on Wednesday, accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians
April 16, 2025
The European Commission on Wednesday included countries such as Egypt and Tunisia, where human rights have come under scrutiny, on a list of "safe countries" to which
April 16, 2025
Al Shabaab fighters captured a town in central Somalia on Wednesday that government forces had been using as a staging area to drive back an offensive by the militants that has
April 16, 2025
U.S.
April 16, 2025
Tens of thousands of people have gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem for the traditional priestly blessing
April 15, 2025
Israel has proposed a 45-day truce in Gaza to allow hostage releases and potentially begin indirect talks to end the war, while Hamas, which has already rejected one of its
April 16, 2025
Iran's right to enrich uranium is not negotiable, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Wednesday ahead of a second round of talks set to take place in Rome this weekend with the
April 16, 2025
Lebanon’s president says he seeks to disarm Hezbollah this year
April 16, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani will discuss efforts to find a possible peace deal to
April 16, 2025
India plans to end taxes on U.S. ethane and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imports under broader negotiations with Washington as it looks to reduce its trade
April 16, 2025
Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday arbitrary detention was being used to eliminate dissent in Tunisia and called on its government to halt the crackdown and free all
April 16, 2025
(This April 15 story has been corrected to fix the launch date and add a dropped phrase to show it is a list of the group's members at launch, in
April 15, 2025
A ship full of lifesaving wheat is sailing towards Yemen. When it arrives next month, it may rot or be pillaged
April 16, 2025
Gaza has become a "mass grave" for Palestinians and those trying to help them, medical charity MSF said on Wednesday, as medics said the Israeli military killed
April 16, 2025
Jordan has arrested 16 members of the Muslim Brotherhood who were trained and financed in Lebanon and had plotted attacks on targets inside the kingdom
April 15, 2025
One of U.S.
April 15, 2025
An Israeli airstrike has struck the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing a medic and wounding nine other people
April 15, 2025
An aid agency official says Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts
April 15, 2025
A spokesman for a hospital in Gaza says an Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital
April 15, 2025
The U.S. military is set to consolidate its presence in Syria over the coming weeks and months, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday, in a
April 15, 2025
President Donald Trump met with his top national security aides on Tuesday to discuss Iran's nuclear program ahead of a second meeting between U.S
April 15, 2025
Hundreds of Tunisians protested on Tuesday, demanding accountability, after three students died on Monday following a school wall collapse in the central town of Mazzouna, an
April 15, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited northern Gaza on Tuesday, accompanied by the country's defense minister, head of the military and other senior officials, his
April 15, 2025
The armed wing of Hamas said on Tuesday it had lost contact with a group of militants holding Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander in the Gaza
April 15, 2025
The European Union and Britain pledged on Tuesday to increase aid for Sudan, at a conference in London marking the second anniversary of a conflict that has
April 14, 2025
Trump envoy stresses need for verification in Iran nuclear talks
April 15, 2025
Israel proposes Gaza ceasefire deal to release 10 hostages for hundreds of Palestinians, Hamas says
April 15, 2025
A Palestinian student at Columbia University was taken into custody by ICE officials outside an immigration facility in Colchester, Vermont on Monday. Mohsen Mahdawi had led pro-Palestinian protests on campus, but stepped back in March 2024, before students started an encampment and occupied university buildings a month later.
April 15, 2025
The recent U.S. deployment of B-2 bombers, the only planes able to launch the most powerful bunker-busting bombs, to within range of Iran is a
April 15, 2025
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sought on Tuesday to play down expectations of a breakthrough in nuclear talks with the U.S., following stirrings of hope among
April 15, 2025
A second U.S. aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
April 15, 2025
Armenia called on Azerbaijan on Tuesday to investigate ceasefire violations along the two countries' frontier, as a surge of reported incidents of cross-border gunfire raises
April 15, 2025
Israeli ministers accuse embattled security agency chief of waging political vendetta against government
April 15, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party accused the head of the domestic intelligence organization on Tuesday of turning parts of the service into "a private
April 15, 2025
The Kremlin on Tuesday declined to comment when asked if Russia was ready to take control of Iran's stocks of enriched uranium as part of a possible future nuclear deal between Iran
April 15, 2025
Turkey's Pro-Kurdish DEM Party called on parliament on Tuesday to pave the way for a renewed peace process by enacting legislation that would support the disarmament of the outlawed
April 15, 2025
Turkish authorities arrested 234 people in an operation coordinated with four European countries against criminal drug-trafficking organisations, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya
April 15, 2025
Russia does not appear serious about seeking peace in Ukraine despite pressure from Washington, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto told
April 15, 2025
Ras Hankorab Beach, a pristine spot on southern Egypt's Red Sea coast with crystal clear waters and flat white sands, is the jewel of Egypt's Wadi el-Gemal
April 15, 2025
The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Tuesday about the protection of civilians in Lebanon as Israeli military operations have continued to kill
April 15, 2025
A steep drop in crude oil prices largely due to U.S.
April 15, 2025
Lazard is strengthening its footprint in the United Arab Emirates by opening an office in the capital city of Abu Dhabi which will serve as the investment bank's main financial
April 15, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "deeply alarmed" at Sunday's strike by Israeli forces on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, his
April 15, 2025
A Hamas official says that the Palestinian militant group is sending a delegation to the Gulf Arab state of Qatar to continue the indirect ceasefire talks with Israel
April 14, 2025
Talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program had appeared ready to leave the Middle East, as an Italian source and others said the next round of negotiations would take place in Rome
April 14, 2025
A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University has been arrested at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship
April 14, 2025
A U.S. judge in Vermont on Monday ordered the Trump administration not to deport a Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested upon arriving
April 15, 2025
Lebanon’s president says the disarmament of the militant group Hezbollah will come through negotiations as part of a national defense strategy and not through “force.”
April 14, 2025
Harvard on Monday rejected numerous demands from the Trump administration that it said would cede control of the school to a conservative government that
April 14, 2025
Suspected U.S. airstrikes around Yemen’s rebel-held capital have killed at least seven people and wounded 29 overnight
April 14, 2025
A Palestinian student leader at Columbia was steps away from his final citizenship interview. He instead faces deportation
April 15, 2025
Mediators Egypt and Qatar have presented a new Israeli proposal for a Gaza ceasefire to Hamas, Egyptian state-affiliated Al Qahera News
April 14, 2025
A second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran continues to be held in Oman's Muscat, Iran's state news agency IRNA said on Monday quoting Foreign Ministry spokesman
April 14, 2025
Hamas said on Monday it was studying the proposal it received from mediators for a ceasefire in Gaza, adding it will submit its response "as soon as possible."
April 14, 2025
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi will visit Russia this week ahead of a planned second round of talks between Tehran and Washington aimed at resolving Iran's
April 14, 2025
A federal judge in Vermont questioned on Monday whether the Trump administration would instigate a "constitutional crisis" by not releasing a Turkish student at Tufts
April 14, 2025
A federal judge in Vermont who's considering whether he has jurisdiction over the case of a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration officials has raised the idea of having her brought back to his court for a hearing
April 14, 2025
Oil prices settled slightly higher on Monday on exemptions for some electronics from U.S. tariffs and data showing a sharp rebound in China's crude imports in
April 13, 2025
President Donald Trump said on Monday he believes Iran is intentionally delaying a nuclear deal with the United States and that it must
April 14, 2025
Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and visiting Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam discussed land and sea border demarcation and security coordination on Monday, weeks after the two
April 14, 2025
Between 60,000 and 80,000 households - or up to 400,000 people, - have been displaced from Sudan's Zamzam camp in North Darfur after it was taken over by the Rapid Support Forces,
April 14, 2025
Turkey is set to begin restoration and reinforcement work on the dome of the Hagia Sophia, in one of the biggest repair projects carried out on the 1,486-year-old structure,
April 14, 2025
Syria's ambassador to Moscow has requested asylum in Russia, state news agency TASS reported on Monday, citing a source.
April 14, 2025
The European Union will increase its financial support for the Palestinian Authority with a three-year package worth around 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion), the
April 14, 2025
The Greek coast guard said it had found the bodies of two women and 39 other migrants on the tiny island of Farmakonisi in the Aegean Sea on Monday, and that an investigation was
April 14, 2025
Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria's debts to the World Bank, three people familiar with the matter said, paving the way
April 14, 2025
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of a major camp for displaced people in North Darfur, the paramilitary group said on Sunday, after a four-day assault the government
April 13, 2025
The head of the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog, told Reuters it was worried about any violations of
April 14, 2025
Qatar and Egypt agreed to work towards a package of $7.5 billion in direct Qatari investments, according to a joint statement released by the Egyptian president's office on Monday.
April 14, 2025
A second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran will be held in Rome, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was reported as saying on Monday by the country's main
April 14, 2025
The latest round of talks in Cairo to restore the defunct Gaza ceasefire and free Israeli hostages ended with no
April 14, 2025
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April 14, 2025
European Union foreign ministers on Monday adopted sanctions against seven Iranian individuals and two organisations over the detention of EU citizens, which the bloc calls a
April 14, 2025
U.S. private equity firm KKR on Monday said it had appointed David Petraeus as the chairman of its Middle East business, and has set up an investment team in the region
April 14, 2025
France, Britain and Germany will be vigilant regarding nuclear disussions between the United States and Iran to ensure they conform with European interests, French Foreign
April 14, 2025
U.S.
April 14, 2025
Israeli strike leaves Gaza City’s last fully functioning hospital out of service as offensive escalates
April 13, 2025
Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of earthquakes
April 13, 2025
A new wave of Israeli strikes across Gaza has hit the last major hospital providing critical health care in the territory's north
April 13, 2025
Two Israeli missiles hit a major Gaza hospital on Sunday, putting the emergency department out of action and damaging other structures, medics said, in a strike
April 12, 2025
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has made his first visit to the United Arab Emirates
April 13, 2025
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met his United Arab Emirates counterpart in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, the Syrian leader's office said, on his second visit to a Gulf state as the country's
April 13, 2025
A Palestinian Red Crescent staff member who went missing in late March when 15 humanitarian workers were killed by Israeli fire is being detained by Israeli
April 13, 2025
Judge has ruled legal permanent US resident Mahmoud Khalil can be deported. What comes next?
April 13, 2025
The United States and Saudi Arabia will sign a preliminary agreement to cooperate over the kingdom's ambitions to develop a civil nuclear industry, U.S.
April 13, 2025
Iran and the U.S. said they held "positive" and "constructive" talks in Oman on Saturday and agreed to reconvene next week in a dialogue meant to address Tehran's
April 12, 2025
Russia and Ukraine’s top diplomats have used a high-level conference in Turkey to once again trade accusations of violating a tentative U.S.-brokered deal to pause strikes on energy infrastructure
April 12, 2025
US-Iran negotiators hold ‘constructive’ nuclear talks, will meet again next week
April 11, 2025
Iran and the United States will hold more negotiations next week over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
April 12, 2025
A Louisiana immigration judge is set to decide Friday whether to release Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil one month after he was arrested by federal agents following a deportation order from the Trump administration. CNN's Christina Macfarlane spoke with Khalil's attorney, Ramzi Kassem.
April 11, 2025
Syria's finance minister, foreign minister and central bank chief are planning to attend the annual spring meetings held by the International
April 12, 2025
A devastating assault by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Zamzam Camp for displaced people near al-Fasher has left hundreds dead or wounded, the foreign ministry and aid groups
April 12, 2025
Hamas on Saturday released a video purportedly of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, who has been held in Gaza since he was captured by Palestinian militants on October 7,
April 12, 2025
The head of the U.S.-funded Al Hurra Arabic-language television and online news outlet has terminated most of his staff and curtailed TV programming
April 12, 2025
Israel says it has completed construction of a new security corridor that cuts off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza
April 12, 2025
Oscar Piastri took pole in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday as his McLaren teammate and standings leader Lando Norris could only manage sixth
April 12, 2025
A United Nations official in Sudan says at least 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, have been killed in a two-day offensive by a notorious paramilitary group
April 12, 2025
Israel’s Gaza offensive pushes hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into an ever-shrinking bubble
April 12, 2025
President Tayyip Erdogan told Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday that Turkey will continue its diplomatic efforts to lift international sanctions against Syria,
April 11, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of Gaza City residents have lost their main source of clean water in the past week after supplies from Israel's water
April 11, 2025
Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff that focused on settling the Ukraine conflict concluded late on Friday after more than four hours.
April 11, 2025
A U.S. immigration judge ruled on Friday that Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, allowing President Donald Trump's administration to
April 11, 2025
The president of the Red Cross described the humanitarian situation in Gaza on Friday as "hell on earth" and warned that its field hospital will run out of
April 11, 2025
President Donald Trump wants Iran to know that there will be "all hell to pay" if it does not abandon its nuclear program, his press secretary
April 11, 2025
An immigration judge has ruled that a Palestinian Columbia University graduate student who participated in protests against Israel can be deported
April 12, 2025
Iran and the United States will meet in Oman for the first talks in President Donald Trump’s second term over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
April 11, 2025
A Louisiana immigration judge says Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported as a national security risk
April 11, 2025
The U.N. humanitarian agency says it's cutting its 2,600 staff who operate in more than 60 countries by 20% because of “brutal cuts” in funding that have left it with a nearly $60 million shortfall
April 11, 2025
A Louisiana immigration judge says Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
April 11, 2025
UN humanitarian agency will lay off hundreds of staff due to funding crisis
April 11, 2025
President Donald Trump is betting that a beleaguered Iran is so vulnerable following a tumultuous 18 months in the Middle East that it might finally be ready to abandon its nuclear program
April 11, 2025
Members of a 104-year-old Pasadena synagogue that was burned down in the Los Angeles fires in January are getting ready to celebrate Passover
April 10, 2025
Israel’s military says it will fire air force reservists who signed a letter condemning the war in Gaza and claiming it only serves political interests instead of bringing the hostages home
April 11, 2025
Abu Dhabi state oil company ADNOC is in the early stages of considering a bid for investment firm Aethon Energy Management's U.S. natural gas assets, according to a person familiar with
April 11, 2025
Iran said on Friday it was giving high-level nuclear talks with the United States on Saturday "a genuine chance", after President Donald Trump threatened bombing if
April 11, 2025
A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey has renewed a push for her release, saying in court documents that she feared for her life when she was detained by immigration officials on the streets of a Boston suburb
April 11, 2025
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday sought to position his country as a point of stability in an increasingly tumultuous world, saying Turkey was essential for European security and able to span geopolitical divisions over Ukraine, Syria and U
April 11, 2025
U.S.
April 11, 2025
Dissent against war grows in Israel’s military as reservists from elite unit join protest movement
April 11, 2025
Mohamed Salah’s trophy-laden spell with Liverpool is set to extend to a decade after the prolific Egypt forward signed a new contract with the Premier League leader after months of uncertainty over his future
April 11, 2025
European Union foreign ministers will target nine Iranians linked to what the bloc calls a policy of state-sponsored hostage-taking in new
April 11, 2025
The United Nations' human rights office warned on Friday that Israel's actions in Gaza are increasingly endangering the existence of Palestinians as a group.
April 11, 2025
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared before a court on Friday for the first time since his high-profile arrest last month,
April 11, 2025
Mohamed Salah to stay at Liverpool beyond this season after signing two-year contract
April 11, 2025
Relatives of hostages in Gaza say they feel the absence of their loved ones acutely during Passover, which commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their liberation from slavery
April 11, 2025
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has extended a deadline for a fact-finding committee to produce its report on the killings of Alawites on Syria's coast last month, the deadliest
April 11, 2025
Why chess is forging an unlikely partnership with esports
April 11, 2025
Abbas Araqchi, Iran's seasoned top diplomat, faces one of his most delicate challenges ever this weekend as he prepares to lead talks with the U.S. to secure a new
April 11, 2025
When Lebanon's civil war erupted 50 years ago this month, its national museum became a flashpoint of its capital's deadly frontline, with militants
April 11, 2025
Tesla has officially launched in Saudi Arabia, marking a new chapter in the company’s global expansion after Elon Musk’s troubled relationship with the kingdom
April 10, 2025
A dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators who were arrested at Stanford University last year after they occupied and allegedly caused hundreds of thousands in damage to a campus building are now facing charges
April 11, 2025
South Korea has established diplomatic relations with Syria’s new Islamist government months after longtime leader Bashar Assad was ousted
April 11, 2025
China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao had discussions with his Saudi Arabian and South African counterparts to exchange views on responding to the United States' "reciprocal
April 10, 2025
Israel’s political leaders steering ceasefire talks frustrate mediators
April 10, 2025
Twelve protesters were charged on Thursday with felony vandalism for their actions during a June 2024 pro-Palestinian protest at Stanford University in which
April 10, 2025
Washington's decision not to coordinate with European nations about its negotiations with Iran on Saturday will reduce its leverage and make U.S. and Israeli military
April 10, 2025
Israel has released a Palestinian who took part in an attack when he was 13 and developed schizophrenia in prison as requests for early release were denied
April 10, 2025
Israel has freed 10 Palestinians detained from Gaza, the latest in periodic releases from the thousands of people troops have seized during the military campaign in the territory
April 10, 2025
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil
April 10, 2025
South Korea and Syria have signed an agreement in Damascus establishing diplomatic relations, the South Korean foreign ministry said on Friday, opening new ties with a traditional
April 10, 2025
A U.S.
April 10, 2025
Tesla launched operations in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, a sign that Chief Executive Elon Musk has patched up relations with the kingdom and that the oil capital was
April 10, 2025
The Trump administration is working to force Columbia University into a consent decree that would legally bind the school to follow federal guidelines in how it combats antisemitism, the
April 10, 2025
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on Iranian oil trading networks on Thursday, including on a China-based crude oil storage terminal
April 10, 2025
Newly-released memo from Rubio details government’s only evidence in effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil
April 10, 2025
The United States and Iran are due to hold talks on Saturday on Tehran's nuclear program as Britain, France and Germany consider whether to trigger a
April 10, 2025
The European Union and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to launch free trade talks, the EU and UAE said on Thursday, amid the upheaval and uncertainties created by U.S.
April 10, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday the United States will hold direct talks with Iran this weekend to discuss Iran's nuclear program.
April 10, 2025
Israel releases Palestinian prisoner controversially arrested aged 13
April 10, 2025
Congolese officials and negotiators for the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have arrived in Doha for talks to hammer out a ceasefire and end months of fighting that have raised
April 10, 2025
Israel orders closure of six UN schools in East Jerusalem after raids
April 09, 2025
The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan
April 10, 2025
As calls for Lebanon's Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior Hezbollah official told Reuters the group is ready to hold talks with
April 08, 2025
An Israeli airstrike on a residential block in northern Gaza killed at least 23 people, health officials in the Palestinian territory say
April 09, 2025
Tesla starts selling cars in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, a country where on a 900-kilometre (559 mile) stretch of its main east-west highway
April 09, 2025
The U.S. government said on Wednesday it will begin screening the social media of immigrants and visa applicants for what it called antisemitic activity,
April 09, 2025
Suspected U.S. airstrikes in Yemen overnight into Thursday killed at least three people
April 09, 2025
The bombs still haven't killed Rehab Akhras and her family.
April 09, 2025
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says the Trump administration will immediately start considering “antisemitic activity” on social media and physical harassment of Jewish people as grounds for denying immigration benefits
April 09, 2025
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister arrived in the United States on Tuesday for an official visit aimed at planning U.S.
April 08, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration wants the U.N.
April 09, 2025
U.S.
April 09, 2025
President Donald Trump says that Israel would be the “leader” of a potential military strike against Iran if Tehran doesn’t give up its nuclear weapons program
April 09, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday France could recognise a Palestinian state in June, adding that in turn some countries in the Middle East could recognise the state
April 09, 2025
Turkey has been holding technical talks with Israel for deconfliction in Syria when needed, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday.
April 09, 2025
USAID reverses course and restores some humanitarian aid contracts after WFP warning of possible deadly consequences
April 08, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has reversed cuts in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest countries
April 09, 2025
The U.S.
April 09, 2025
The Senate has confirmed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as President Donald Trump's ambassador to Israel
April 09, 2025
The U.S.-owned Haas Formula One team said they were carrying on as normal despite owner Gene Haas's machine tools business reporting a 'dramatic decrease in demand' as a result of
April 09, 2025
The U
April 09, 2025
United States Energy Secretary Chris Wright said his visit to the United Arab Emirates will include discussion on enhancing global energy security, the UAE state news agency reported
April 09, 2025
The United States issued fresh sanctions targeting Iran on Wednesday, the Treasury Department said, two days after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. planned direct talks
April 09, 2025
Hundreds of Tunisians staged two protest rallies on Wednesday against what they say is the authoritarian rule of President Kais Saied and demanded the release of
April 09, 2025
Iran’s president again has pledged his nation is “not after a nuclear bomb” ahead of talks between Tehran and the United States
April 09, 2025
An Israeli airstrike killed at least 29 Palestinians, including children, in a house in Shejaia in Gaza City, local health authorities said on Wednesday.
April 09, 2025
Passover celebrations this year will again occur amid anxieties and divisions among many Jews related to the unresolved Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and the specter of widespread antisemitism
April 09, 2025
An emboldened US and a weakened Iran will hold nuclear talks. Is there space for a deal?
April 08, 2025
Weary from long years of biting sanctions and worried about U.S. threats of military action, Iranians have responded to the prospect of talks this weekend with
April 09, 2025
Israeli soldiers reveal systematic destruction of Palestinian property to create Gaza buffer zone
April 07, 2025
President Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey is not expecting a negative situation for its trade, production and exports as a result of U.S.
April 09, 2025
Russia said on Wednesday the world was getting tired of endless threats against Iran and that bombing the Islamic Republic would not bring
April 09, 2025
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto says that his country will offer temporary shelter to Palestinian medical evacuees and children orphaned by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
April 09, 2025
Suspected U.S. airstrikes have pounded the area around Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida, killing at least eight people and wounding 16 others
April 08, 2025
The Trump administration has frozen over $1 billion in funding for Cornell University and $790 million for Northwestern University while it
April 09, 2025
Indonesia is ready to temporarily shelter Palestinians hit by the war in Gaza, President Prabowo Subianto said on Wednesday, estimating there could be 1,000 in the first wave, as he
April 08, 2025
The U.S.
April 08, 2025
Louisiana immigration judge will determine by the end of this week whether to release Mahmoud Khalil, his attorney says
April 09, 2025
A rare blue diamond was displayed at an exhibition of $100 million worth of the world’s rarest diamonds in the United Arab Emirates’ capital
April 08, 2025
Talks to resolve the conflict over Western Sahara should take place on the sole basis of a Moroccan plan that would give the region some autonomy under the North
April 08, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday moved to reinstate at least six recently canceled U.S. foreign aid
April 08, 2025
An immigration judge on Tuesday gave the U.S. government a day to show evidence that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be
April 08, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington for a hastily organized visit bringing a long list of concerns
April 08, 2025
An immigration judge in Louisiana says she will decide later this week whether the government can continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University activist facing deportation for his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests
April 08, 2025
Saudi Arabia, with its wealth linked inextricably to oil revenue, faces mounting pressure to raise debt or cut spending after a plunge in crude prices, complicating
April 08, 2025
American families of victims of the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel filed a lawsuit on Monday against a prominent Palestinian-American businessman, Bashar
April 07, 2025
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Tuesday that Iran can expect tighter sanctions if it does not come to an agreement with President Donald Trump on its nuclear program.
April 08, 2025
Iran’s foreign minister says he’ll meet with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in Oman for the first negotiations under the Trump administration seeking to halt Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
April 08, 2025
The U.S.
April 08, 2025
Palestinian medics say Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and into Tuesday have killed at least 25 people
April 08, 2025
Palestinian American teen shot dead by Israeli soldiers in West Bank, official says
April 07, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday rejected a new Israeli proposal to control aid deliveries in Gaza, saying it risks "further
April 08, 2025
‘Warfare’ aims to be the most authentic Iraq War film yet
April 08, 2025
Iran and the U.S. will hold talks on Saturday on Iran's nuclear programme, with U.S. President Donald Trump having threatened military action if they cannot agree a deal.
April 08, 2025
Israel's Supreme Court began a hearing on Tuesday into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bid to sack the head of the domestic intelligence service amid an
April 08, 2025
Iran is approaching weekend talks with the United States over its nuclear programme warily, with little confidence in progress and deep suspicions over U.S. intentions,
April 08, 2025
A CNN review provides a detailed account of the Israeli military’s targeting and burial of clearly marked rescue crews from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Civil Defense, and the United Nations. A CNN interview with a survivor of the attack and exclusive audio from a medical worker recorded in his final moments contradict Israel’s account.
April 07, 2025
A Lebanese judge published a new court decision in the charges against former central bank chief Riad Salameh for embezzlement of public funds,
April 08, 2025
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia backed both direct and indirect talks between Iran and the U.S. over Tehran's nuclear program as offering a chance for the de-escalation of
April 08, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the country's main opposition party was attempting to obstruct a major corruption investigation targeting Istanbul's jailed mayor,
April 08, 2025
Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, on Tuesday ratified a 20-year strategic partnership between Russia and Iran.
April 08, 2025
As Trump’s immigration crackdown continues, ethics questions are being raised over the use of masked federal agents
April 08, 2025
Trump says US has begun direct talks with Iran over its nuclear program
April 07, 2025
The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them struggling with conflict
April 07, 2025
President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement on Monday that the United States and Iran were poised to begin direct
April 07, 2025
Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the U.S.
April 07, 2025
Harvard University plans to borrow $750 million from Wall Street as part of contingency preparations, it said on Monday, days after President Donald Trump's
April 07, 2025
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April 07, 2025
U.S.
April 07, 2025
President Donald Trump says the U.S. is holding direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program
April 07, 2025
Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military, according to a group representing the workers
April 07, 2025
Hospital officials say Israeli strikes around Gaza killed more than 30 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children
April 07, 2025
Palestinian medics say Israel struck tents outside two major hospitals in the Gaza Strip overnight
April 07, 2025
‘Dad, help me… we were targeted by the Israelis’: Audio and video capture last moments of aid workers killed in Gaza
April 07, 2025
Sydney non-profit worker Az Fahmi was once a dedicated volunteer for Australia's ruling Labor party, handing out pamphlets to get her local
April 07, 2025
President Donald Trump has proposed a U.S. takeover of Gaza while also suggesting a permanent displacement of Palestinians from the enclave.
February 20, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised on Monday to eliminate Israel's trade surplus with the United States, a move likely to be closely watched by
April 07, 2025
The Israeli military said on Monday that an initial investigation into the killing of 15 emergency workers in south Gaza last month showed that the incident occurred "due to a sense
April 07, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S.
April 07, 2025
‘War without limits’: Aid agencies sound the alarm as Israel’s Gaza blockade enters a second month
April 07, 2025
Israeli troops could be seen clearing ground and building watch towers on Monday in parts of Gaza they have seized in recent days in a
April 07, 2025
The heads of six U.N. agencies called on Monday for an urgent renewal of the ceasefire in Gaza, warning of aid shortages and hunger since Israel resumed its all
April 07, 2025
A medical charity working in Greece says it has diagnosed six young children living in a migrant facility on the eastern Aegean island of Samos as suffering from malnutrition
April 07, 2025
Israel's Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday on whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acted lawfully in sacking the head of the domestic
April 07, 2025
The morning sun cast long shadows as Abdulilah Mohamed, an elderly resident of Sharg Elnil in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, returned to his family home after fleeing from
April 07, 2025
Arab states formally support the Palestinian cause but security, regional and sectarian tensions have strained their ties with the Palestinians
April 07, 2025
France and Egypt signed strategic partnership agreements on Monday, in areas covering health, transport and energy, which French President Emmanuel Macron said would help shore up
April 07, 2025
Israeli troops flattened farmland and cleared entire residential districts in Gaza to open a "kill zone" around the enclave, according to a report on Monday
April 07, 2025
A Palestinian journalist was killed on Monday and nine others were wounded, some critically, when an Israeli air strike hit a tent used by
April 07, 2025
Middle East stock markets are tumbling as they struggle with the dual hit of U.S. tariffs and a sharp decline in oil prices
April 07, 2025
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, on Sunday slashed its prices for Asian buyers to close to their lowest level in four years, adding to speculation it is
April 06, 2025
The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was ready to do all it could to help resolve tensions between the United States and Iran around Tehran's nuclear programme, as Washington
April 07, 2025
(This April 4 story has been corrected to fix the title of Noa Lazimi in paragraph 20) Turkey scoped out at least three air bases
April 04, 2025
Iran’s president fires deputy for ‘lavish’ trip to Antarctica
April 06, 2025
Israel has dramatically expanded its footprint in the Gaza Strip since relaunching its war against Hamas last month
April 07, 2025
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 32 people including over a dozen women and children
April 06, 2025
Saudi Arabia's non-oil private sector activity grew rapidly in March with new orders boosted by lower prices and improved economic conditions, although the rate of growth slowed from
April 07, 2025
Suspected U.S. airstrikes over the weekend targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed at least six people
April 06, 2025
Starvation was likely the leading cause of death for a Palestinian teenager who died in an Israeli prison, according to an Israeli doctor who observed the autopsy
April 06, 2025
Palestinian militant group Hamas said it fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel's south on Sunday in response to Israeli "
April 06, 2025
The Israeli military has provided new details that changed its initial account of the killing of 15 emergency workers near the southern Gaza city of Rafah last
April 06, 2025
U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that Hezbollah and other armed groups should be disarmed "as soon as possible" and that Lebanese troops were
April 06, 2025
Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa will make his first visit to the United Arab Emirates and is also scheduled to visit Turkey next week, the Syrian foreign ministry said in a
April 06, 2025
Video showing final moments of Gaza emergency workers casts doubt on Israeli account of killings
April 05, 2025
Turkey's main opposition leader on Sunday pledged further protests against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's chief rival, aiming to sustain Turkey's
April 06, 2025
Moroccans have protested Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza and U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal to displace Palestinians and clear the territory for development
April 06, 2025
Far from being cowed by US airstrikes, Yemen’s Houthis may be relishing them
April 06, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he hopes U.S.
April 06, 2025
Libya's central bank announced a 13.3% devaluation of the country's dinar currency on Sunday, setting the exchange rate at 5.5677 to the U.S. dollar effective immediately.
April 06, 2025
The Israeli military has backtracked on its account of the killing of 15 Palestinian medics by Israeli forces last month after phone video appeared to contradict its claims that their vehicles did not have emergency signals on
April 05, 2025
Iran is pushing back against U.S. demands that it directly negotiate over its nuclear programme or be bombed, warning neighbours that host U.S. bases that they could be in
April 06, 2025
‘It is time for you to leave the United States’: Ukrainians receive erroneous email from Department of Homeland Security
April 05, 2025
President Donald Trump plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday
April 05, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington and discuss U.S. tariffs imposed by U.S.
April 05, 2025
Israel says troops have deployed to a newly established security corridor across southern Gaza
April 05, 2025
Congo's government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a lightning offensive in the country's east, a source briefed on
April 05, 2025
Iran’s rial currency traded at a record low against the U.S. dollar as the country returned to work after a long holiday
April 05, 2025
Tunisian authorities have dismantled makeshift camps housing 7,000 sub-Saharan African migrants and begun forcibly deporting some of them, a senior official told
April 05, 2025
A Palestinian paramedic who was present at an incident in which 15 of his colleagues were killed in southern Gaza last month said he saw Israeli troops firing at
April 05, 2025
Archaeologists uncover an ancient Egyptian tomb belonging to a mystery king
April 05, 2025
India and the United Arab Emirates agreed to develop an energy hub in Sri Lanka, India's foreign ministry said on Saturday, as New
April 05, 2025
A Manhattan federal judge says Columbia University must give detained activist Mahmoud Khalil and other students 30 days' notice before handing over any more documents to Congress as it investigates antisemitism on college campuses
April 04, 2025
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's remarks were interrupted by a pro-Palestinian protesting employee during the technology company's 50th anniversary celebration on
April 05, 2025
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April 05, 2025
A pro-Palestinian protest by Microsoft employees interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration Friday, the latest backlash over the tech industry’s work to supply artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military
April 04, 2025
The Trump administration on Friday lost a bid to throw out or move to Louisiana a Tufts University student's legal challenge to her immigration arrest, which
April 04, 2025
A crackdown on foreign students is alarming college leaders, who say the Trump administration is using new tactics and vague justifications to push some students out of the country
April 04, 2025
Syria welcomed a United Nations resolution on Friday to investigate violations and improve the country's human-rights record following the 13-year civil war
April 04, 2025
Attorneys for Tufts University student accuse government of ‘secretive’ effort to move her across state lines
April 03, 2025
Auburn coach Bruce Pearl, Florida’s Todd Golden and Duke’s Jon Scheyer are basketball rivals at the Final Four with a unique thread of connection
April 04, 2025
Cost of US military offensive against Houthis nears $1 billion with limited impact
April 04, 2025
Turkey wants no confrontation with Israel in Syria, but repeated Israeli strikes on military facilities there are eroding the new government's ability to deter
April 04, 2025
Israeli troops were expanding their control of ground in northern Gaza, the military said on Friday, days after the
April 04, 2025
Scores of U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters have left two neighborhoods in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo part of a deal with the central government in Damascus
April 04, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with U.S.
April 04, 2025
(This April 3 story has been corrected to change the source to the ICC's Presidency of the Assembly of State Parties, not the ICC Presidency, in paragraph 10) By Anita Komuves and Maayan Lubell
April 03, 2025
Two months after President Donald Trump announced a halt to U.S. engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council, Washington is
April 04, 2025
Netanyahu says Israel is now dividing up Gaza. What does that mean on the ground?
April 03, 2025
Turkey's foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, discussed Israeli strikes in Syria, the U.S. policy U-turn and sanctions, and a possible Ukraine-Russia peace deal in an interview with
April 04, 2025
Myanmar's military is limiting critically needed humanitarian aid for earthquake victims in areas where it sees opposition to its rule, the United Nations human
April 04, 2025
Israeli strikes have killed more than a dozen people in the Gaza Strip as Israel sends more ground troops into the Palestinian territory to ramp up its offensive against Hamas
April 04, 2025
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has announced his intention to withdraw his country from the International Criminal Court
April 04, 2025
Israel killed a commander of the Palestinian militant group Hamas in an airstrike on southern Lebanon on Friday, further testing a ceasefire that halted last year's war between
April 04, 2025
The Trump administration moved forward with the sale of more than 20,000 U.S.-made assault rifles to Israel last month, according to a document seen by Reuters
April 04, 2025
Hungary was never fully committed to the International Criminal Court, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said a day after announcing plans to withdraw from the international body
April 04, 2025
Russia said on Friday that the question of Iran's nuclear programme should be resolved politically and diplomatically, urging restraint on all sides.
April 04, 2025
Gaza's Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 27 Palestinians sheltering at a school in northern Gaza and wounded 70 more
April 03, 2025
Tunisians are embracing snails as a protein-packed alternative as the cost of red meat remains high
April 04, 2025
Growth in the UAE's non-oil private sector moderated in March, a survey showed on Friday, highlighting a softening in demand momentum in the Gulf region's most diversified economy.
April 04, 2025
The U.S. government plans to freeze grants to Brown University and separately set conditions that Harvard University must meet - including a
April 03, 2025
Hungary said it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court, which Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said was a “political” organization
April 03, 2025
A White House official says the Trump administration is planning to halt more than half a billion dollars in contracts and grants awarded to Brown University
April 03, 2025
Eight OPEC+ countries unexpectedly agreed on Thursday to advance their plan to phase out oil output cuts by increasing
April 03, 2025
Syrian state media has reported that at least nine people in southwestern Syria have been killed in Israeli strikes
April 03, 2025
A Tufts University student from Turkey, who was arrested last week in Massachusetts by U.S. immigration officials after advocating for Palestinians amid Israel's war
April 03, 2025
The Pentagon’s acting inspector general has announced that he will review Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to convey plans for a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen
April 03, 2025
The Pentagon's Inspector General's office announced on Thursday it was opening a probe into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of an unclassified
April 03, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of fleeing Gazans sought shelter on Thursday in one of the biggest mass displacements of the war, as Israeli forces
April 03, 2025
Israel stepped up airstrikes on Syria, declaring the attacks a warning to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus as it accused their ally Turkey on Thursday of trying to
April 02, 2025
Imprisoned Egyptian-British activist’s mother marks 100 days of hunger strike, says family
January 07, 2025
Delta removes an employee, changes its uniform policy after backlash over social media post perceived to be anti-Palestinian
July 12, 2024
Pentagon watchdog launches probe of Hegseth Signal messages
April 03, 2025
Yale Law School has fired a scholar it says refused to appear in person to answer questions about her possible ties to organizations deemed to support terrorism
April 03, 2025
Two French citizens held in Iran for almost three years have not had consular services for more than a year prompting Paris to prepare a complaint at the International Court of
April 03, 2025
The Israeli military is conducting an investigation into an incident in Gaza in which a number of emergency and aid workers were killed, a military spokesperson said on Thursday,
April 03, 2025
Greek and Turkish officials have reported the sinking of two boats carrying migrants in the early hours of Thursday in the narrow stretch of sea between Turkey and a nearby Greek island, leaving a total of at least 16 people dead, including three children, one missing and more than 40 survivors
April 03, 2025
22-year-old Uday Rabie, a Palestinian man, was tortured and killed by Hamas militants after he criticized the group publicly and participated in rare anti-Hamas protests in Gaza, his family said. CNN's Jeremy Diamond has the story. Please be warned this video contains graphic content.
April 01, 2025
Donald Trump's latest tariff announcement could impact Israel's exports of machinery and medical equipment, an Israeli finance ministry official said on Thursday,
April 03, 2025
Turkish police have detained 11 people for supporting a shopping boycott as part of protests against the imprisonment of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival
April 03, 2025
Russia said on Thursday that threats of military strikes against its ally Iran were unacceptable and warned that attacking the Islamic Republic could lead to potentially
April 03, 2025
A meeting of eight top ministers of OPEC+ will likely keep oil output policy that calls for gradual oil output hikes from
April 03, 2025
At least seven migrants died, including one boy, one girl and two women, when their boat sank on Thursday off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece's coastguard said.
April 03, 2025
Israel is not ruling out a diplomatic path to prevent Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Thursday, adding that there were signs that there
April 03, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office is once again ensnared in scandal after police arrested two of his close associates this week on suspicion of accepting money from Qatar to promote a positive image of the Gulf Arab state in Israel
April 03, 2025
Turkish inflation is expected to end the year a bit higher than previously expected, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday, reflecting fallout from a currency selloff after
March 26, 2025
Suspected U.S. airstrikes have battered rebel-controlled areas of Yemen, which the Houthis say killed at least six people
April 02, 2025
Federal judge to consider case of Georgetown fellow arrested by ICE
April 02, 2025
What we know about the federal detention of activists, students and scholars connected to universities
March 31, 2025
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms says it has been hit with a hefty fine for resisting Turkish government demands that it limit content
April 02, 2025
Hamas decided not to respond or engage with Israel's counter-proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, an official told Reuters on Wednesday, affirming
April 02, 2025
U.S. Justice Department lawyers say a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered that she be kept in Massachusetts
April 02, 2025
The team of President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Mike Waltz, set up at least 20 group chats on the commercial Signal app to coordinate official work on issues
April 02, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is establishing a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas
April 02, 2025
At least two people were killed and others were injured in renewed attacks by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a camp in North Darfur that is sheltering around 450,000 people displaced by the war in the country
April 02, 2025
Israel announces expansion of military operation in Gaza to seize ‘large areas’ of land, ordering residents to leave
April 02, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is establishing a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip
April 02, 2025
A federal judge said Jewish groups may pursue a lawsuit accusing the University of California, Berkeley, of tolerating an "unrelenting" stream of antisemitic harassment
April 02, 2025
Bond giant PIMCO has privately lent nearly $6 billion to emerging market borrowers, mostly governments, this year alone, securing higher returns and better lender
April 02, 2025
Israel announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza on Wednesday, saying large areas of the enclave would be seized
April 02, 2025
A Gaza family's open admission this week that they killed an officer from the Hamas-run police force after they said a relative was shot dead has added to signs
April 02, 2025
France's foreign minister warned on Wednesday that if world powers were unable to quickly reach a new agreement with Iran over its contested nuclear
April 02, 2025
Cornell student activist chooses to leave US after judge denies bid to immediately block deportation
April 01, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is traveling to Hungary despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against him over the war in Gaza
April 02, 2025
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht Ravanchi on Wednesday discussed ongoing negotiations regarding Tehran's nuclear programme with Russian counterpart Sergei Ryabkov, the
April 02, 2025
The Taliban senses an opening as it pushes for diplomatic recognition in talks with Trump administration
April 02, 2025
The U.N. food agency is closing all of its bakeries in the Gaza Strip
April 01, 2025
Protests that erupted across Turkey following the arrest of the main challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have taken a new direction with calls for a one-day shopping boycott
April 02, 2025
The Bible contains some explicit genocidal narratives, and over time, some religious Zionists have wielded these stories to advocate for the destruction of the Palestinians.
April 02, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu begins a four-day visit to Hungary on Thursday, defying an International Criminal Court arrest warrant over
April 02, 2025
Eight OPEC+ countries meeting on Thursday will focus debates on how to convince Kazakhstan to stop exceeding its output quota and its plans to
April 02, 2025
Israel's economy looks set to rebound over the next two years if geopolitical tensions ease, but it needs structural reforms to support government finances and
April 02, 2025
Turkey's government denounced opposition calls for a mass commercial boycott following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu that sparked nationwide protests, describing them
April 02, 2025
Israel has cancelled its remaining tariffs on imports from the United States, officials said on Tuesday, a day before the Trump administration hits global trading
April 01, 2025
Thousands of Palestinians chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests last week in the Gaza Strip
April 02, 2025
US moves B-2 stealth bombers to Indian Ocean island in massive show of force to Houthis, Iran
April 02, 2025
As Israel orders wide new evacuations across the Gaza Strip, Palestinians say they are crushed by exhaustion and hopelessness at the prospect of fleeing once again
April 02, 2025
Bakeries close across Gaza as World Food Programme warns food supplies are set to run out in two weeks
April 01, 2025
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April 01, 2025
A new generation of young Turks is at the forefront of mass protests against President Tayyip Erdogan’s government, demanding change in a country they see
April 01, 2025
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, the situation on the Korean Peninsula as well as Iran's nuclear program, the Russian foreign
April 01, 2025
Princeton University said on Tuesday the U.S. government froze several dozen research grants to the school, which became the latest academic institution
April 01, 2025
Two arrested as investigation into ‘QatarGate’ in Israel deepens
April 01, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil’s case to remain in New Jersey after judge denies US government’s bid to move it
April 01, 2025
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into individuals promoting economic boycotts on social and traditional media, following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem
April 01, 2025
Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil may continue to challenge the legality of his arrest by immigration authorities in New Jersey, rather than in Louisiana
April 01, 2025
The U.S. government has been using its immigration enforcement powers since President Trump took office to crack down on international students and scholars who had participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations or criticized Israel over its military action in Gaza
March 28, 2025
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S.
April 01, 2025
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April 01, 2025
The United Nations on Tuesday dismissed as "ridiculous" an assertion by Israel that there was enough food in the Gaza Strip to last for a long period of
April 01, 2025
Syria suffered a nationwide power outage on Tuesday night due to malfunctions at several points in the national grid, a spokesperson from the energy ministry told Reuters.
April 01, 2025
A federal judge has rejected a Trump administration bid to move Mahmoud Khalil’s legal case to Louisiana
April 01, 2025
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The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on entities and individuals in Iran, the United Arab Emirates and China whom it accused of being part of an Iranian weapons procurement
April 01, 2025
OPEC+ ministers from eight nations that are gradually raising oil output will meet online on Thursday and are likely
April 01, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his nomination of former navy chief Eli Sharvit to lead the domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet only a day after making
April 01, 2025
Melania Trump has recognized eight women with the 2025 International Women of Courage Award
April 01, 2025
Palestinian man tortured to death by Hamas militants after criticizing group and attending protests, family says
April 01, 2025
What rights do immigrants have, and what do they not have?
April 01, 2025
The Israeli military has struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs
April 01, 2025
An Israeli airstrike killed four people including a Hezbollah official in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday, a
March 31, 2025
A Cornell University student facing deportation after his visa was revoked over campus activism said he decided to leave the United States
April 01, 2025
Fifteen emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the United Nations have been recovered from a grave in the sand in the south of the Gaza Strip, U.N.
March 31, 2025
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they have shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone
April 01, 2025
Russia has warned that strikes against Iran's nuclear infrastructure would have "catastrophic" consequences, after U.S.
April 01, 2025
The Israeli military says it struck a building in Beirut's southern suburbs, killing at least four people
April 01, 2025
Relations between Iran and the United States - once strong allies - have often been mistrustful and sometimes openly hostile since Iran's 1979 revolution.
April 01, 2025
A Cyprus court has acquitted and dropped all charges against five Israelis accused of gang-raping a British woman in a hotel room after ruling her testimony as not credible and replete with “fundamental contradictions.”
April 01, 2025
Officials say a teenager from the West Bank who was held in an Israeli prison for six months without being charged died after collapsing in unclear circumstances
April 01, 2025
A new AP-NORC poll finds that while most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the conflict is not weighing as heavily on his public perception as it did on President Joe Biden
April 01, 2025
Israeli strike kills four in Beirut in test of fragile ceasefire with Hezbollah
April 01, 2025
The Trump administration sought to put the scandal over its use of the Signal messaging app behind it on Monday, calling it case
April 01, 2025
The Israeli military has issued sweeping evacuation orders covering Rafah
March 31, 2025
The White House has said that U.S. strikes in Yemen earlier this month killed the Houthi top missile expert, but the U.S. military has so far
March 31, 2025
The Trump administration said on Monday it was reviewing $9 billion in federal contracts and grants awarded to Harvard University, part of a crackdown on
March 31, 2025
Iran complained to the United Nations Security Council on Monday about "reckless and belligerent" remarks by U.S.
March 31, 2025
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March 30, 2025
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich resigned from his post as minister on Monday in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
March 31, 2025
The Israeli military has indicated it could soon launch another major offensive in Rafah and ordered most of the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip evacuated
March 31, 2025
President Donald Trump said on Monday that U.S. attacks on the Iran-backed Houthis, an armed movement that has taken control of the most populous parts of Yemen, will continue until they
March 31, 2025
Oil prices climbed about 2% to a five-week high on Monday on worries supplies could decline if U.S.
March 31, 2025
A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced three people to death for the killing of Israeli-Moldovan Zvi Kogan
March 31, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left his corruption trial abruptly on Monday to give evidence in a separate investigation into possible ties between his aides
March 31, 2025
Gold prices soared to record levels above $3,100 per ounce in a rally marking one of the most significant upswings in the precious metal's history,
March 31, 2025
The United Arab Emirates on Monday sentenced three people to death for the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who was killed in November in the Gulf
March 31, 2025
Oil producer Saudi Aramco keeps its April official selling prices (OSPs) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) unchanged from March, while Algeria's Sonatrach cut its OSPs by 2-7% due
March 31, 2025
Israel has proposed an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for the return of about half the remaining hostages, Israeli officials said on Monday, as the
March 31, 2025
South Jersey restaurant reopens after owners' arrest by ICE sparks community outpouring
March 31, 2025
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday the U.S. would receive a strong blow if it acts on President Donald Trump's threat to bomb unless Tehran reaches a new
March 31, 2025
Israel again expands Gaza war as Netanyahu vows he’s changing the Middle East. The endgame is unclear as ever
March 31, 2025
Suspected U.S. airstrikes have struck around Yemen’s rebel-held capital overnight into Monday morning
March 31, 2025
Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants
March 31, 2025
Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband sought before his
March 31, 2025
Turmoil unleashed by the arrest of Turkey's leading opposition figure earlier this month has sent shockwaves through the private sector, forcing
March 28, 2025
Pakistan says it plans to expel 3 million Afghans this year
March 31, 2025
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March 30, 2025
Iran’s president says Tehran has rejected direct negotiations with the United States in response to a letter from President Donald Trump over its rapidly advancing nuclear program
March 30, 2025
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have little to celebrate as they mark the normally festive Eid al-Fitr
March 30, 2025
Trump criticizes Putin and threatens adversaries with new tariffs as he barrels toward April 2 deadline
March 30, 2025
Hamas agrees to Egyptian ceasefire proposal, Israel counters
March 29, 2025
Deadly Israeli strikes mar Gaza Eid celebrations as Netanyahu says pressure on Hamas is ‘working’
March 30, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated a demand on Sunday for Hamas to disarm and for its leaders to leave Gaza as he
March 30, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of protesters again congregated in Istanbul Saturday to how their support for the city’s imprisoned mayor and demand his release
March 29, 2025
U.S. immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying to benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump
March 29, 2025
Hamas has agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received two days ago from mediators Egypt and Qatar, the Palestinian militant group's chief said
March 29, 2025
The leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, said on Sunday that his war against the army was not over and his forces would return to
March 30, 2025
President Donald Trump is making his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an embarrassing accidental leak of his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen
March 29, 2025
Syria’s new transitional government has been sworn in nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as the new authorities in Damascus work to bring back stability to the war-ton country
March 29, 2025
An American woman who was detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released
March 29, 2025
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a transitional government on Saturday, appointing 23 ministers in a broadened cabinet seen as a key milestone in the transition from decades of
March 29, 2025
The Hamas militant group says it has accepted a new Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators Egypt and Qatar
March 29, 2025
Columbia University's interim president, Katrina Armstrong, has stepped down - a departure that comes one week after it agreed to significant changes amid a
March 28, 2025
The Red Cross said on Saturday it is gravely concerned about the fate of nine Palestine Red Crescent ambulance crew who have been missing for seven days in
March 29, 2025
When Friday's powerful earthquake struck central Myanmar, Htet Min Oo was performing ritual ablutions before Ramadan prayers at a mosque next to his house in
March 29, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of Turks protested in Istanbul on Saturday against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival,
March 29, 2025
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday temporarily barred the deportation of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who voiced support
March 29, 2025
A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight. Then she was flown 1,500 miles away
March 29, 2025
Aid workers reported killed and missing in Gaza as Israeli blockade nears one month
March 27, 2025
As they spend their first Ramadan in their country in years, many Syrians who’ve recently returned from abroad to a homeland they were forced to flee have been celebrating the end of the Assad family’s rule
March 29, 2025
THE HAGUE -The World Court said on Friday it would hear a case brought by Sudan demanding emergency measures against the United Arab Emirates and accusing the Gulf state of violating obligations under
March 28, 2025
Suspected U.S. airstrikes have pounded Yemen overnight
March 29, 2025
Afghan pilots who fought in 20-year war against Taliban in limbo after Trump blocks US resettlement plans
March 29, 2025
A federal judge in Massachusetts says a Tufts University doctoral student who was detained this week can’t be deported to Turkey without a court order
March 28, 2025
What we know about the Tufts University PhD student detained by federal agents
March 27, 2025
The Atlantic published more messages from a group chat among top Cabinet members, in which the magazine’s editor-in-chief was inadvertently added. The messages reveal that specific sensitive information about strikes on Houthis in Yemen. Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel discussed the scandal with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
March 28, 2025
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
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