GENEVA (Reuters) -The two-year Gaza war and economic restrictions have triggered an unprecedented collapse in the Palestinian economy, wiping out decades of growth, a United Nations report said on Tuesday. "Extensive damage to infrastructure, productive assets and public
Hezbollah supporters passed Haytham Tabtabai's coffin during his burial, along with two other members, at a cemetery south of Beirut where the group's fighters are usually laid to rest. Israel struck Lebanon's capital Sunday, saying it killed the military chief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll held talks with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi on Monday, a U.S. official told Reuters, the latest effort by President Donald Trump's administration to broker a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. The meeting comes
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo will embark on his first trip outside Italy as the leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday, travelling to Turkey and Lebanon, where he is expected to make appeals for peace in the region and urge unity among long-divided
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo will embark on his first trip outside Italy on Thursday, travelling to Turkey and Lebanon. Here is a history of papal foreign visits, which have become a major part of the agenda for the leader of the world's 1.4 billion
By Saeed Shah ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Tensions flared between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Tuesday as the Taliban accused Pakistani forces of air strikes in eastern Afghanistan, which killed 9 children and a woman, and injured four others. There was no immediate comment from
Charbel Matar says a Lebanese saint saved his life when he was a child. Now, he is among pilgrims of all faiths who visit Saint Charbel's tomb, soon to be graced by Pope Leo XIV. "My family and I have great faith in Saint Charbel and always visit him," said Matar, 69, at the
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing his administration to determine whether to designate certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood, such as those in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan, as foreign terrorist organizations and
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Victims of Hamas' October 2023 attack on Israel sued Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao, accusing them of facilitating millions of dollars in payments to the group and other U.S.-designated terrorist groups. According to a complaint made
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Monday announced a unilateral three-month ceasefire a day after the army dismissed a US truce proposal from international mediators. The RSF, which has been fighting Sudan's regular army since April 2023, said it was declaring the
(Reuters) -The head of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces said late on Monday that his paramilitaries would immediately enter into a three-month humanitarian truce, after U.S. President Donald Trump said last week that he would intervene to seek an end to a war that has plunged the
TEL AVIV (Reuters) -The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the U.S.- and Israeli-backed organisation to distribute aid in Gaza, said on Monday it was ending its operations after months of criticism over deaths of hundreds of Palestinians trying to reach GHF hubs. The GHF, which had
ANKARA (Reuters) -A delegation from a Turkish parliamentary commission overseeing the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group paid their first visit to its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan on Monday, the parliamentary speaker's office said. In
The announcement significantly boosts Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 strategy to diversify the economy away from oil by the end of the decade.
Overwhelmed health workers rushed from patient to patient in makeshift tents in Sudan, trying to help even though they too had barely escaped the fall of El-Fasher to paramilitary forces. "We're not in good shape," said Ikhlas Abdallah, a general practitioner who arrived from
Sudan's army chief accused US envoy Massad Boulos of spreading UAE-backed narratives about the army, called Boulos’ proposal to end the war the “worst” yet and rejected any UAE role in mediating the conflict.
WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland summoned Israel's ambassador on Monday over a tweet from a Holocaust memorial institute that Warsaw said did not make clear that occupying Nazi German forces, and not Polish authorities, made Jews wear star badges during World War Two. Foreign Minister
Last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an advocacy group for American Muslims, as foreign terrorist organizations.
Last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an advocacy group for American Muslims, as foreign terrorist organizations.
A precarious calm returned to Syria’s central Homs province on Monday following a day of violent unrest triggered by the murder of a couple from a Bedouin tribe in the town of Zaydal.
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hundreds gathered in Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday to mourn Hezbollah's top military commander Haytham Ali Tabtabai and four other fighters from the Lebanese group killed in an Israeli strike on the city's outskirts the previous day. The targeted
PARIS (Reuters) -France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot will hold talks with his Iranian counterpart in Paris on November 26 to discuss bilateral and regional issues as well as Iran's contested nuclear programme, France's foreign ministry said on Monday. "This will be an
The Gulf country is the world's top investor in Africa, with Emirati companies committing $100 billion to projects on the continent between 2019 and 2023, according to data from the Financial Times.
Why didn't Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman normalize relations with Israel when he met with President Trump at the White House? Because he – like us, and many others in the region – knows that there can be no true regional integration without a just solution to the
TikTok recruiters, teenage drivers, and high-speed flight from police: Palestinian boys as young as 13, from the West Bank's most deprived areas, are powering a car theft industry responsible for tens of thousands of Israeli cars each year
(Corrects to change typographical error in word "risk" in paragraph 13) SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian far-right Senator Pauline Hanson wore a burqa to Parliament on Monday as a political prop in her push to ban the Muslim garment in public, sparking accusations of racism from
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Alexander Cornwell CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in Gaza near the line demarcating areas of Israeli control on Monday, underlining the struggle to broaden a fragile ceasefire deal approved over six weeks ago to
Hezbollah held the funeral Monday for its top military chief and other members of the militant group a day after Israel killed them in a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs. Haytham Ali Tabatabai is the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since a November