While open-source tracking reveals several fighter jets intended to protect Israel from Iranian strikes landed in Jordan, and a heavily-equipped aircraft carrier strike group is expected to arrive near Iran at any moment, the recent deployment seems - for the time being -
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
TAIPEI, Jan 25 (Reuters) - U.S. climber Alex Honnold scaled the Taipei 101 skyscraper without ropes or safety netting on Sunday, watched by thousands of cheering and waving fans as he clambered up one of the world's tallest buildings. "Sick," Honnold said as he got to the top
A Saudi Arabian media campaign targeting the UAE has deepened the Gulf's worst row in years, stoking fears of a damaging fall-out in the financial heart of the Middle East. Fiery accusations of rights abuses and betrayal have circulated for weeks in state-run and social media
A Pakistani court on Saturday jailed a prominent rights activist and her husband for 10 years over "anti-state" social media posts. Imaan Mazari, a 32-year-old lawyer and vocal critic of Pakistan's military, "disseminated highly offensive" content on her X account, according to
Jan 24 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump by telephone on Saturday, with the leaders discussing the need for bolstered security in the Arctic, 10 Downing Street said in a statement. Starmer referred to the subject as an
LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday praised "brave" British soldiers, calling them warriors, a day after remarks he made about NATO troops in Afghanistan were described as "insulting and appalling" by Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Trump
Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party on Saturday called for the blockade on the Kurdish-majority city of Kobane in northern Syria to be lifted immediately, warning of a "humanitarian tragedy". The situation in Kobane had escalated from a crisis into a "deadly catastrophe", DEM said
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - When officials from the United States, Denmark and Greenland met last month in the Arctic island's capital, the session was reassuringly normal, with no discussion of a U.S. military or financial takeover of the Danish territory,