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Rescue organisations say passengers on boat attempting crossing from Libya to Italy are feared deadSeveral dozen people are missing and feared dead in the central Mediterranean after the boat in which they were travelling from Libya capsized in bad wea…
It may speed up peace talks between Riyadh and the Houthi movement, but it risks locking out other groupsThe new detente between Saudi Arabia and Iran is likely to have major implications for the civil war in Yemen, possibly speeding up peace talks bet…
Arab neighbours who snubbed president for waging a war against his own people are courting him. What is behind the new attitude?Walking through Aleppo in Syria last month, Bashar al-Assad did not look like a man shouldering the fate of a nation.As he p…
Amnesty International hits out at ‘shocking’ annual figure reaped through fossil fuelSaudi Aramco has reported a record $161bn (£133bn) profit for 2022, the largest annual profit ever recorded by an oil and gas company, fuelled by soaring energy prices…
Israel’s military says soldiers responded after coming under fireIsraeli forces shot and killed three Palestinian gunmen who opened fire on troops in the occupied West Bank, the military said, adding that another gunman turned himself in and was arrest…
Embassies to reopen in move that could have wide implications for Iran nuclear deal and Yemen warIran and Saudi Arabia, the two great oil-producing rivals of the Middle East, have agreed to restore ties and reopen embassies seven years after relations …
US defence secretary Lloyd Austin’s visit was disrupted by protests against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial changesThe Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin, has expressed his concerns over rising levels of violence against Palestinians in…
Proposals to neuter the country’s judiciary have spooked entrepreneurs who had seemed immune to the political weatherAbout 20 years ago, the skyline of Tel Aviv began to change. The city’s collection of elegant white Bauhaus buildings has been joined b…
Proposals to neuter the country’s judiciary have spooked entrepreneurs who had seemed immune to the political weatherAbout 20 years ago, the skyline of Tel Aviv began to change. The city’s collection of elegant white Bauhaus buildings has been joined b…
Prominent Afghans and Iranians say current laws do not capture the systematic suppression of womenA prominent group of Afghan and Iranian women are backing a campaign calling for gender apartheid to be recognised as a crime under international law.The …