A turbo-charged election campaign by Israel's far-right national security minister has seen gun-shaped keychains distributed to high school students and a promotional video threatening to "put to death" a Palestinian inmate. His policy pledges include encouraging Palestinians
Ahead of next month's midterm US elections, Donald Trump has increasingly blamed Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries for surging energy prices back home, which are causing the president political headaches. However, analysts say the main driver of higher fuel prices
Oct 22 (Reuters) - Egypt advocates exploring "every opportunity" to resolve the Yemen conflict diplomatically, its foreign minister said, ahead of a parliamentary vote next week on authorising the armed forces to support Saudi Arabia against the Iran-aligned Houthis. Any direct
The Gulf state agreed to buy up to 4 million tons of US liquefied natural gas annually through 2054.
Oct 22 (Reuters) - Greece and Egypt are discussing extending their Exclusive Economic Zone eastwards towards Cyprus after eastern Libya's parliament ratified a disputed maritime agreement with Turkey earlier this week, Greece's foreign minister said. Greece, Egypt and Cyprus
Ankara expects Doha to submit a draft sales contract for the fighter jets, as Turkey seeks to acquire aircraft that can be delivered sooner than its newly ordered Eurofighters.
The Houthis emerged from obscurity in Yemen's hardscrabble north to control swathes of the country and pose a perennial threat to neighbouring Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter. From their origins in the 1990s, the Iran-backed former mountain fighters now command the
JERUSALEM, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Nine of the 10 suspects arrested in an investigation into militant settler attacks on a US journalist and European diplomats have been released from custody and placed under house arrest, a law firm that represents settlers said. Masked Israeli
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to cut crucial internet and communications routes in the region if US aggression escalates.
Oct 22 (Reuters) - Saudi state oil company Aramco has told staff to evacuate its headquarters in Dhahran on the Gulf, six people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday, as fighting between the world's largest crude exporter and Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis
CAIRO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least four people in the Gaza Strip in separate incidents on Thursday, health officials in the enclave said. In Gaza City, a strike on a car killed at least one person, medics said. They earlier said there had been
The repeated and escalating Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia’s energy facilities and airports United States ordered the departure of non-essential government employees and their families from the kingdom, with oil giant Aramco reportedly evacuating its headquarters.
Nearly all of the world's shallow-water coral reefs face an extremely high risk of collapse by 2075 due to climate change, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned Thursday. In the first global assessment of its kind, the world authority on threatened
By Lina Obeid and Tamar Uriel-Beeri JERUSALEM, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main opponent Gadi Eisenkot both oppose an independent Palestinian state, meaning next week's election is unlikely to produce a sweeping shift in policies that
Three such cunning phrasings help stoke settler attacks on American journalists and European diplomats, keep Palestinian farmers off their land, and portray the Israeli army and civilians in the West Bank as the people in danger
By Stanley Widianto and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam JAKARTA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Indonesia should reconsider its involvement in US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan because it is being shaped by Israel and the US and lacks a Palestinian voice, the United Nations special
The IRGC Navy said it had tracked the vessels before the strikes, adding that three others had hit mines west of the Strait of Hormuz
When Israel goes to the polls this month, voters will weigh in on military conscription, the economy and how the state should investigate its inability to prevent Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack. AFP looks at the key issues shaping the campaign as Israel gears up for elections