On the ground, Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 38 people on Wednesday, including...
- A leading Israeli rights organisation said Monday that it had requested a military investigation into a senior commander over suspected...
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani was welcomed by Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani at the airport, images broadcast on Iraqi...The two sides signed agreements on oil and gas supply to Iraq, the establishment of a joint oil company and the construction of a refinery
Iraq's National Investment Authority also signed agreements with the Qatari firms working in the property and construction sectors
Since April 15, the regular army headed by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been locked in fighting with paramilitary Rapid Support...In long-troubled West Darfur state, the violence killed Governor Khamis Abdullah Abakar, hours after he made remarks critical of the paramilitaries in a telephone interview
Miller said up to 1,100 civilians have been killed in West Darfur's capital, El Geneina, alone, while the @UN is reporting more than 273,000 have been displaced from the region
Gates -- one of the world's richest men -- is the latest in a string of Western business leaders to...The visit is Gates' first to China in four years, and included a rare sit-down between the Chinese head of state and a foreign business leader
A state media readout also quoted Gates as praising China's efforts in "tackling the Covid-19 pandemic, setting a good example for the world"
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has gone against the grain set by the Fed and ECB, announcing on Friday that...On Wednesday, the Fed paused interest rate hikes after 10 straight increases, bringing its benchmark lending rate from close to zero to a range between 5.0 and 5.25 percent
On Thursday, the People's Bank of China cut a key lending facility by 10 basis points to 2.65 percent, and extended 237 billion yuan ($33 billion) of fresh funding to lender
The treaty, officially known as the treaty on "Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction" or BBNJ, also introduces requirements to carry out...The landmark high seas treaty would establish a legal framework to extend swathes of environmental protections to international waters
Following four years of official negotiations, UN member states finally agreed on the text for the treaty in March after a flurry of final, marathon talks
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA - Crisis-hit Sri Lanka's economy shrank by 11.5 percent in the first quarter just before an IMF bailout...The contraction in the first three months compared with shrinkage of 0.5 percent in the corresponding period of 2022.
A currency crisis from late 2021 led to severe shortages of food, fuel and medicines and triggered months of protests.
- Last year's donors' conference in Brussels for displaced Syrians raised pledges of $6.7 billion, and the one before that $6.4...
Since 2011, more than 500,000 people have been killed in Syria after Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on peaceful protesters pushed country into civil war.
The UN says more than 12 million Syrians were displaced by the conflict, most of them inside Syria, and with 5.4 million living as refugees in neighboring countries.
In Venezuela, Raisi and Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro announced that they signed 25 accords, across sectors ranging from education and...The Iranian leader, whose country is also sanctioned by the United States, kicked off his trip in Venezuela earlier this week before flying to Nicaragua
Raisi added that Iran and the Central American country "share a common history of struggle, of resistance, of revolutions, of combat against a common enemy"
- Lebanese authorities say the country hosts around two million Syrians, while more than 800,000 are registered with the UN --...
Aid groups warned that support for Syrians at home and abroad has dwindled, as the international community meets in Brussels this week for a pledging conference
Amid a crushing economic crisis that has pushed most of Lebanon into poverty, anti-Syrian sentiment has soared, the government has called for refugees to leave
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, is scheduled to visit Tehran on Saturday,...This visit follows the agreement reached in March, facilitated by China, which aimed to end the prolonged hostility between the two countries
Earlier in June, the foreign ministers of the two countries met in South Africa to discuss plans for the full restoration of relations
