BEIJING, Jan 26 (Reuters) - China's vice president and foreign minister held talks with the secretary-general of the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Monday, according to a ministry statement and the official news agency, Xinhua. The talks in the Chinese capital
MANILA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The Philippine foreign ministry said on Monday it had made "firm representations" to China's embassy and its ambassador in Manila over what it described as an "escalation of public exchanges" between them and Philippine officials over disputes in the
Trump's confrontational approach rests on the assumption that force can reshape Iran's political order. But with no international coalition, a divided opposition and entrenched security forces, war may fuel instability rather than produce lasting change
Israel said Monday it would allow a "limited reopening" of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt once it had recovered the remains of the last hostage in the Palestinian territory. Reopening Rafah, a vital entry point for aid into Gaza, forms part of a truce
Jan 25 (Reuters) - Israel will reopen Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt for the passage of people only after an operation to locate the body of the last remaining Israeli hostage in the enclave is completed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said late on Sunday.
A UN humanitarian convoy arrived Sunday in the Kurdish-majority town of Kobane, which has been filled recently with people displaced by clashes in northern Syria, a spokesperson told AFP. Earlier Sunday, Syria's military said it had opened a humanitarian corridor to the town,
VILNIUS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. document on security guarantees for Ukraine is completely ready and Kyiv is waiting for a time and place for it to be signed, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, indicating that weekend talks with Russia in Abu Dhabi made some
While open-source tracking shows several fighter jets deployed to protect Israel from Iranian strikes have landed in Jordan, and a heavily equipped aircraft carrier strike group is expected near Iran, the current U.S. deployment appears, for now, smaller than in previous rounds
Government-sponsored violence by Israeli settlers, 'apartheid roads' and Palestinians being displaced from their homes. Peace Now provides a somber day trip in the occupied West Bank
Two senior Iranian officials told Time magazine that up to 30,000 people may have been killed during anti-regime protests in just two days and so many between January 8 and 9 that authorities reportedly ran out of body bags and used trucks instead of ambulances
