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A Lebanese emergency worker was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in the south of the country on Friday, according to Lebanese authorities. Israel has mounted daily attacks across the country in violation of the ceasefire that was supposed...

A Tunisian court sentenced a prominent journalist to one year in prison on Thursday, according to his supporters, after he criticised judges he said had wrongly convicted other journalists. The verdict came on the same day that the United Nations' rights...

TOKYO – Indonesian officials are working overtime to dismiss any suggestion that Jakarta is catching a whiff of 1997 in the air. But the force of their interventions to steady the rupiah tells a very different story. Bank Indonesia is hemorrhaging...

Paris will return its ambassador to Algeria and send a senior envoy to ceremonies marking a colonial-era massacre in its former colony to improve frayed relations, the French presidency said on Friday. Ties between France and Algeria have been...

In the uneasy politics of energy transition, few ideas are as seductive — or as risky — as compromise. Ammonia co-firing, now being advanced through Japan’s Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) at Indonesia’s Suralaya and Paiton coal plants, is one...

Iraq's oil ministry has denied US accusations against its deputy minister, who the United States hit with sanctions over alleged support to Iran as Washington escalates pressure on Baghdad to break with Iranian-linked groups. The US State Department on...

US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was still in place despite an Iranian attack on three American destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz that increased fears Friday that the truce was faltering. The US...

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces on Friday continued violating the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip for the 211th consecutive day through artillery shelling, gunfire, and attacks targeting civilians in several areas across the territory. Local sources reported that Israeli tanks opened...

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli forces carried out a series of raids across the occupied West Bank on Friday, including arrests, while settlers attacked Palestinian property by setting a vehicle on fire and spray-painting racist slogans east of Ramallah. In Nablus, Israeli forces...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Jerusalem resident Mohammad Mahmoud Al Abbasi began emptying his house in the town of Silwan, south of Al Aqsa Mosque, on Thursday in preparation for demolishing it himself. This was in compliance with a decision issued by the...

Nobel laureate warns former supporters of Israel are turning away from country over bloodshed in Gaza Read Article HERE Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license The post Middle East Eye: Novelist JM...

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Berlin faces a new test as the AfD moves closer to powerDiego Faßnacht reports that Germany’s September election in Saxony-Anhalt...

After weeks of blockades by Iran and the United States in the Strait of Hormuz, it’s clear the narrow waterway is now pivotal to the outcome of the conflict. The US has begun to escort ships through the narrow passage,...

Despite constitutional constraints on its armed forces, Japan has continued to move closer toward military normalization this year. Although it is controversial, most countries in the Asia-Pacific region should welcome this trend. In April, Japan’s cabinet approved revisions to its...

Israel has hit rock bottom—politically, morally, and economically. The era of Benjamin Netanyahu, who led the country from one reckless adventure to another, is coming to an end. But his legacy is a prolonged agony from which merely changing one...

For years, many Western observers believed the internet would inevitably weaken authoritarian regimes. The logic seemed straightforward: once information could flow freely, state monopolies on propaganda would collapse. The internet, in this view, would become a force of democratization. Reality...

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun - - - - Singapore, which endured a massive S$3 billion money laundering affair perpetrated by Chinese cyber scam nationals dubbed the “Fujian Gang” in 2023, appears to have effectively closed the doors to scandal,...

Stone being paid $50,000 a month to ‘rebuild’ relations between Washington and Myanmar’s military-backed government The US lobbyist Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of Donald Trump, has been condemned for accepting $50,000 a month to “rebuild” relations between Washington...

The now endlessly repeated notion that Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium (HEU) is tantamount to having a nuclear weapon within weeks is downright malefic. Indeed, this gross deception is so thoroughly fallacious and dangerously misleading that it needs be...

A US military strike on May 4 killed two mariners in an alleged “narco boat” campaign which now has a cumulative death toll of at least 188. The pace of extrajudicial executions is ramping up, according to The Guardian. But...

Much of the current discourse on the Middle East remains fixated on the US midterm congressional elections this coming November. This vote, in particular, is being framed as a pivotal turning point for everything from the survival of Gaza and...

An Israeli settler suspected of kicking and wounding a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem will go on trial for assault motivated by hostility towards a religious group, Israel's justice ministry said on Thursday. The assault on the nun, a...

Lebanon's health ministry reported at least 12 people killed, including two children and a paramedic, in a series of Israeli airstrikes on Thursday in spite of a ceasefire . The new deaths came a day after Israel killed a...

The OPCW has finally acknowledged concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths in the alleged Douma chemical attack of April 2018. For the first time in a prolonged...

A long-awaited summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to take place in Beijing May 14 and 15, with both sides preparing to address a crowded agenda spanning Iranian oil, Taiwan, trade, human rights and...