(Reuters) -Bulgaria has arrested 35 people linked to a criminal network involved in large-scale trafficking of cultural goods across Europe, BTA news agency reported on Thursday, quoting the head of the country's anti-organised crime unit. "We have conducted 131 searches.
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish lawmakers overseeing the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group will visit its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in his island prison, state broadcaster TRT Haber said on Friday. The move, whose timing is not yet known,
An Indian fighter jet crashed during a flying display at the Dubai Airshow on Friday, killing the pilot in front of hundreds of shocked onlookers. The Indian-made Tejas warplane was executing a manoeuvre when it plunged to the ground and erupted in a fireball. The pilot was
By Shivam Patel, Federico Maccioni and Tim Hepher NEW DELHI/DUBAI (Reuters) -An Indian home-produced Tejas fighter jet crashed in a ball of fire at the Dubai Airshow during an aerial display on Friday, killing its pilot, and the Indian Air Force said it was setting up a court
Conflicting messages from U.S. politicians and military commanders complicate Lebanon's efforts to curb Hezbollah, manage Israeli escalation and avert a return to war
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -More food supplies are getting into Gaza since the October ceasefire but are still falling short of huge humanitarian needs as winter rains risk spoiling delivered foodstuffs, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Friday. "Things are
GENEVA (Reuters) -Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday that its medical teams in Gaza had treated Palestinian women and children this week for injuries from Israeli airstrikes and gunfire, almost six weeks into a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire. Since Wednesday, medical staff
Israelis are searching for answers for the shift in US policy, some pointing to Saudi promises to invest trillions in the US, while others point to members of Trump's circle.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teenagers during an overnight raid on a town near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, residents said, as violence surges in the territory with a growing number of dead. Forces shot Sami Ibrahim Mashaikha, 16,
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Air cargo services between India and Afghanistan will be launchedsoon, an Indian foreign ministry official said on Friday, during a visit by Afghanistan's Taliban Trade Minister Al-Haj Nooruddin Azizi to New Delhi. "I am pleased to announce that the air
IDF officers have once again begun discussing the possibility of a brief period of focused clashes with Hezbollah, as the military now believes Hamas has between 20,000 and 25,000 armed operatives in Lebanon
After years of being banned from leaving Iran, filmmaker Jafar Panahi is enjoying his tour of the United States -- visiting Los Angeles, New York and Telluride -- as he promotes his Oscar-hopeful "It Was Just an Accident." The film, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, has been
(Reuters) -The Syrian central bank on Thursday sent its first Swift message to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, central bank Governor AbdulKader Husrieh told Reuters. "We sent (a) greeting message to all our international correspondent banks. We started with the Federal
In Israel's first official comments on the U.S.-Saudi sale, a Netanyahu office spokesperson said that there are understandings between Israel and the U.S. ensuring Israel's ability to maintain its qualitative edge in the region, as well as its advantage in access to advanced
Millions of Iraqis headed to the polls last week to vote, but it could be months before a new government takes shape.
Syria condemned Netanyahu's visit as a violation of its sovereignty, while Qatar denounced Israeli strikes in Gaza and Lebanon that killed and wounded dozens, calling for urgent regional and international action to uphold cease-fire agreements and prevent further escalation
TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Israel expects to maintain access to more advanced U.S. weaponry, a government spokesperson said on Thursday when asked about Washington's plan to sell F-35 warplanes to Saudi Arabia. Israel is the only Middle East country operating the F-35, one of the most
Ten months after he was forced out of the occupied West Bank's Tulkarem refugee camp, Hakam Irhil doesn't know if he will ever be able to return. Irhil was displaced and his home demolished after Israel launched a major military operation in mid-January in multiple northern
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran has asked Saudi Arabia to persuade the U.S. to revive stalled nuclear talks, underlining Tehran's anxiety over a possible repeat of Israeli airstrikes and its deepening economic woes, two regional sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Dick Cheney, celebrated as a master Republican strategist but defined by the darkest chapters of America's "War on Terror," was honored Thursday in a funeral attended by Washington's elite that pointedly left out President Donald Trump. Cheney's career reads like a catalogue of