BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Israeli authorities have ordered the demolition of a soccer field in a crowded refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, eliminating one of the few spaces where Palestinian children are able to run and play. "If the field gets demolished,
DUBAI, Jan 13 - An Iranian parliamentarian said on Tuesday the government will face even bigger protests unless it addresses people's grievances, after more than two weeks of nationwide demonstrations that have challenged the legitimacy of the country's clerical rulers. The
US President Donald Trump announced a 25-percent tariff on any country doing business with Iran, ramping up pressure as a rights group estimated a crackdown on protests has killed at least 648 people. Iranian authorities insisted they have regained control after successive
Since Israel recognised Somaliland last month, the self-declared republic on the Gulf of Aden has become central to a struggle over military access, ports and regional influence across the Red Sea corridor. Somaliland sits astride one of the world's most strategic maritime
BENGALURU, Jan 13 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday he assumes Iran's leadership is in its "final days and weeks" as it faces widespread protests. Demonstrations in Iran have evolved from complaints about dire economic hardships to calls for the fall
Over two weeks of protests mark the most serious challenge in years to Iran's theocratic leadership in their scale and nature but it is too early to predict the immediate demise of the Islamic republic, analysts say. The demonstrations moved from protesting economic grievances
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The director of one of Australia's top writers festivals resigned on Tuesday saying she could not be party to silencing a Palestinian author and warning government moves to ban protests and slogans in the aftermath of the Bondi mass
US President Donald Trump has options to intervene in protest-hit Iran that range from low to high risk, but choosing his course depends on him deciding his ultimate goal. It has been 10 days since Trump said the United States was "locked and loaded" and ready to "come to the
WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that any country that does business with Iran will be subjected to a tariff rate of 25% on any business conducted with the United States. "Effective immediately, any Country doing business with the
Jan 12 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that the world had to help Iranians build on protests to engineer change to free them from rule that brought evil to their own and other countries, including Ukraine. Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly
By Supantha Mukherjee, Cassell Bryan-Low and Parisa Hafezi Jan 12 (Reuters) - Some Iranians are still using Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service despite a nationwide communications blackout, three people inside the country said, the latest example of Starlink being
Israel will take part in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest on May 12 in Vienna, according to the draw on Monday, as five countries are staying away this year over Israel's participation. The world's biggest live televised music event heads into its 70th
Despite the outreach, Iran doesn't appear willing to abandon its red lines in talks with the United States.
US President Donald Trump is considering air strikes on Iran to stop a crackdown on protesters, the White House said Monday, adding that people were being "killed on the streets." But a channel for diplomacy remains open, with Iran taking a "far different tone" in private
Iran has largely gone offline since protests over economic woes escalated into broader demonstrations against the government, with the Trump administration signaling restoring internet access could be a priority.
The White House has a bevy of options to turn up the heat on Iran's government short of regime change, former US military and intelligence officials say.
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Monday it has revoked more than 100,000 visas since President Donald Trump took office last year, setting what it said was a new record as his administration pursues its hardline immigration
The UK government has paid "substantial" compensation to a Guantanamo detainee who was tortured by the CIA and has been held there without charge for two decades, his lawyer said Monday. Abu Zubaydah, 54, was the first of a number of prisoners to be subjected to CIA "enhanced
Iraqi militias and the Houthis are growing more vocal in their defense of Iran amid the protests sweeping the country, while Hezbollah and Palestinian groups are remaining relatively quiet.
The Somali government said that the decision was a response to "reports and strong evidence of illegal measures to harm the sovereignty" of Somalia.
MOSCOW, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of Russia's Security Council, held a telephone conversation with the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Interfax reported on Monday. During the call, Shoigu strongly condemned what he described as attempts
The Iranian government has made several economic pledges to protesters, though some carry risk of increasing inflation further.
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Iran's bazaar merchants, the trader class who were the financial backbone of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, have turned against the clerics they helped bring to power, fuelling unrest over an economy that has morphed into full-blown
Ankara is wary of the consequences of potential US strikes on Iran, warning they could trigger wider regional instability.
Ankara is wary of the consequences of potential US strikes on Iran, warning they could trigger wider regional instability.
Reza Pahlavi, who as a boy was groomed to be the next shah of imperial Iran but has spent nearly five decades in exile, has emerged as a rallying figure in the protests shaking the Islamic republic. The chant of "Pahlavi will come back!" has become a mantra for many of the
ANKARA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Turkey said on Monday that any foreign intervention in neighbouring Iran would lead to greater crises in the country and the region, and it called for U.S. and Iranian negotiations to resolve existing problems. Iran is facing its biggest
By Saad Sayeed, Ananda Teresia and Ariba Shahid ISLAMABAD/JAKARTA Jan 12 (Reuters) - Indonesia's defence minister met Pakistan's air force chief in Islamabad to discuss a potential deal that includes the sale of combat jets and killer drones to Jakarta, three security officials
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Israel plans to begin the long-awaited privatisation of two of its largest defence companies as early as the second quarter of this year, a senior government official said. Roi Kahlon, director of the Government Companies
By Mahmoud Issa and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO Jan 12 (Reuters) - She spends her lessons in the wintry cold on the floor of a crowded tent, her teacher interrupted by regular gunfire and explosions from Israeli-controlled territory less than 1,000 metres away. But Toulin
If the Iranian chess federation doesn't pay the fine within 21 days, the country could be suspended from the International Chess Federation. The fine comes amid growing political unrest in Iran, where the death toll from nationwide protests has risen to at least 544
Israel is on high alert over the possibility of an American strike on Iran, which could trigger Iranian retaliation against the Jewish state.
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, Jan 12 (Reuters) - An Israeli-backed Palestinian militia said on Monday it had killed a senior Hamas police officer in the southern Gaza Strip, an incident which Hamas blamed on "Israeli collaborators". A statement from the Hamas-run interior
Iran summons European ambassadors over alleged support for protests, as unrest continues nationwide and Western leaders show solidarity with demonstrators.
Iran's foreign minister said on Monday the Islamic republic is ready for both war and talks after repeated threats from US President Donald Trump to intervene militarily over a crackdown on protests that activists fear has killed hundreds. Over two weeks of protests initially
A violent crackdown on a wave of protests in Iran has killed at least 648 people, a rights group said on Monday, as Iranian authorities sought to regain control of the streets with mass nationwide rallies. Rights groups have sounded the alarm over the deadly crackdown, warning
Iranian authorities on Monday sought to regain control of the streets with mass nationwide rallies in the wake of protests on a scale unprecedented in recent years, as alarm grew over a deadly crackdown. The foreign minister said Iran was ready for both war and talks after
Barham Salih has known torture and the wrenching loss of exile. Four decades after his own ordeal, he has taken the helm of the UN refugee agency as it grapples with a funding shortfall and ever-rising needs. A former Iraqi president, Salih, 65, became the first former head of