By Ali Kucukgocmen IKIZKOY, Turkey, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Local official Nejla Isik is among the villagers living beside a coal mine who demand that world leaders gathering in Turkey for COP31 climate talks leave the conference venue to inspect the devastation decades of lignite
As the COP31 climate summit approaches, host nation Turkey is putting electrification front and centre, touting its renewables boom while pushing its Zero Waste agenda as a way to reduce methane emissions. But local environmental campaigners say it sidesteps the "elephant in
Nov 7 (Reuters) - An American military aircraft fired on and disabled a commercial vessel that tried to break the US blockade of Iran on Saturday, US Central Command said. The St. Kitts-flagged cargo vessel tried to depart regional waters after visiting an Iranian port, and a
Nov 8 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's civil defence on Sunday lifted alerts in several areas of the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province, including Dhahran, home to the headquarters of oil major Saudi Aramco, shortly after warning of potential danger. The all-clear also applies to
Nov 7 (Reuters) - Israel's president on Saturday chose Gadi Eisenkot, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strongest rival, to try to form a new government following a deadlocked election that left neither man with a clear path to power. Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving
Nov 7 (Reuters) - At least 33 people were killed and 39 wounded in what the Houthi-run Saba news agency said were Saudi airstrikes on a village near Yemen's capital Sanaa on Saturday, in one of the deadliest reported attacks since fighting between Saudi Arabia and the
Nov 7 (Reuters) - At least 27 people were killed and 36 wounded in what the Houthi-run Saba news agency said were Saudi airstrikes on a village near Yemen's capital Sanaa on Saturday, in one of the deadliest reported attacks since fighting between Saudi Arabia and the
Israel's president announced on Saturday he would task Gadi Eisenkot with forming the next government following last week's election, in what Netanyahu's rivals see as a first step to remove the country's longest-serving prime minister. The opposition bloc led by Eisenkot, a
The report came after President Donald Trump said the U.S. military carried out new limited strikes on Iran on Friday, targeting an Iranian air defense system
Thousands of Syrian troops are set to deploy to Saudi Arabia and Yemen, with some already on the ground, multiple Yemeni officials told AFP, as Riyadh rallies international help to repel the Houthis and bolster the government in Aden. It came after the two countries signed
Marc Marquez will have the chance to win his eighth MotoGP title on Sunday after storming to victory in a thrilling sprint race in Qatar. Starting from second on the grid, Ducati's Marquez needed to finish Saturday's sprint with five more points than closest rival Jorge Martin
Nov 7 (Reuters) - Syria has no plans to send troops to Yemen, a Syrian diplomatic source told state news agency SANA, dismissing reportsof a possible deployment while adding that military cooperation with Saudi Arabia could eventually expand. Saudi Arabia has been locked in
CENTCOM said it launched the intra-agency Task Force Iron Gate on Saturday in an effort to 'constrain Iran's ability to replenish its military'
Heavy rain on Saturday flooded tens of thousands of displaced people's tents in war-devastated Gaza, Palestinian authorities said, leaving them without shelter. In a statement, the Hamas-run government media office said that about "70,000 tents sheltering tens of thousands of
By Dawoud Abu Alkas and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Heavy rains have flooded tens of thousands of tents housing displaced Palestinians crammed into encampments across the Gaza Strip, washing away shelters and soaking blankets and mattresses, local
(Adds dropped word in paragraph 12) By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Building on a months-long naval blockade on Iran, the US military said on Saturday it is launching a task force to help crack down on Tehran's movement of advanced weapons and other sanctioned
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Building on a months-long naval blockade on Iran, the US military said on Saturday it is launching a task force to help crack down on Tehran's movement of advanced weapons and other sanctioned material over its land borders and
The son of the ousted shah of Iran on Saturday received a "Freedom Prize" in Frankfurt awarded to the Iranian people in a ceremony that critics said was illegitimate. Some 25,000 demonstrators, many chanting support and waving pre-revolutionary Iranian flags, greeted Reza