The move follows the Trump administration's decision to exclude the AP from its press pool. WASHINGTON: The White House said Tuesday it will decide which media organizations will be part of the press pool covering the president, wresting control from…
He will lead a team of analysts covering the region's geopolitics and macroeconomics. DUBAI: Firas Maqsad has joined Eurasia Group, a leading global research and consulting firm, as its new managing director for the Middle East and North Africa, it…
Theatre alleges abuse of power and curtailment of artistic freedom Mahmud Abu Arisha: “We will fight for our creative space” LONDON: A Jaffa theatre has appealed to Israel's Supreme Court after police banned the showing of Palestinian films. Jaffa's Al-Saraya…
The World Health Organization has suggested that mass poisoning was the cause of the 60 deaths. However, African experts suspect a more mundane cause. The mystery of an unknown illness that has killed dozens of people in the Democratic Republic…
Uganda's LGBTQ community was already struggling with the fallout from a harsh anti-gay law when the end of US aid put people at further risk. In the weeks since President Trump signed an executive order disbanding the U.S. Agency for…
DNA testing had found that remains returned a day earlier purportedly of Ms. Bibas, a dead Israeli hostage, were in fact not hers, stirring outrage in Israel. A body that Hamas turned over to the Red Cross on Friday has…
Villagers say they worry that incursions into border areas of Syria by Israel’s military could turn into a prolonged occupation. Israel says the raids are needed to protect the border. Ruwayda al-Aqaar was sleeping next to her husband and 3-year-old…
Two of the captives had been in the hands of Hamas for about 10 years. The rest were taken during the attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Hamas released six more hostages on Saturday as part of its cease-fire…
Munich, Germany – Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, told Europeans on Saturday that their inclusion in talks to end the war in Ukraine was “not going to happen”. Kellogg dropped the bombshell at the Munich Security Conference after Europeans…
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced on Saturday he would travel to China “in the next few weeks” in hopes of finding a settlement over Beijing’s tariffs on French cognac and Armagnac. Cognac and Armagnac, among other brandies, have been…