Monday, April 7, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
With the U.S. rebuffing would-be asylum seekers, shelters in Tijuana are no longer full. But some migrants now say they might try to enter the U.S. illegally.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
The Israeli military said on Friday it had killed Hassan Farhat, a commander of Palestinian militant group Hamas, in the Sidon region of southern Lebanon.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Middle East
In northern Kerala, far from India’s big cities and tourist trails, an ancient ritual brings the gods down to earth – and takes aim at injustice. RFI went to the town of Payyanur to witness this Hindu ceremony carried out by Theyyam...Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
Israel launched a full-fledged ground offensive in Gaza City on Friday as the IDF pushed to expand a new militarised security corridor across the devastated Palestinian territory. More than 1,200 people have been killed since Israel's...Monday, April 7, 2025 from Middle East
European Union finance ministers are preparing to explore an ambitious new initiative that could mark a turning point in the bloc’s approach to collective security.Sunday, April 6, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
Trump administration orders national parks to remain open despite cutting more than 1,500 jobs so far this year.Monday, April 7, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
President Donald Trump on Monday said the US would start direct, high-level talks with Iran over its nuclear programme on Saturday in a shock announcement during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White...Monday, April 7, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
PRCS calls for international investigation after postmortem results add to evidence contradicting Israel’s account Autopsies conducted on 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil emergency responders who were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza...Saturday, April 5, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
In one of the biggest cases he worked on, he represented Time magazine when Mr. Sharon, Israel’s defense minister, sued it over its reporting on a 1983 massacre in Lebanon.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
Ramping up its renewed offensive in Gaza since the ceasefire broke down last month, Israel's latest airstrikes killed 100 Palestinians on Thursday, as Israel continued its month-long blockade of humanitarian aid entering the enclave....Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced renewed criticism on Friday over his controversial decision to dismiss internal security chief Ronen Bar. The country’s attorney general accused Netanyahu of having a “conflict of interest”...Monday, April 7, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
Trump officials wrongly sent Maryland man to El Salvador but refuse to bring him back.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers • Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again Gaza is one of the...Monday, April 7, 2025 from Middle East
Turkey’s opposition is accusing Europe of abandoning those fighting to keep democracy alive, as European leaders and the EU offer only muted criticism over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, and the crackdown on protests.Friday, April 4, 2025 from BBC News - Middle East
Israeli air strikes on bases in Syria are a warning to Turkey to keep its military assets away.Friday, April 4, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
Israel said the operation had killed a militant who was “likely personally involved in the abduction” of the Bibas family on Oct. 7.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Middle East
As US President Donald Trump's widest-ranging tariffs to date took effect Saturday, the White House said it had lowered planned levies on two French overseas territories. Trump's move has already triggered retaliation and economists fear...Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East
The latest wave of violence to engulf Haiti – including a mass jailbreak and deadly protests – has allowed criminal gangs to tighten their grip on key urban areas, plunging the country further into chaos and testing the limits of the...Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents' house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen threw her 85-year-old father on the ground and shot him execution-style in the head.Sunday, April 6, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said he will be meeting Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II for trilateral summit on the situation in Gaza, following Israel's escalated attacks and push to...Monday, April 7, 2025 from Middle East
Differences within the EU over how to respond to President Donald Trump’s barrage of tariffs were laid bare during a meeting of the bloc’s trade ministers on Monday. France urged the EU to contemplate retaliatory measures against...Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
At least 25 killed in attack on Khan Younis in south as Israel says it is aiming to pressure Hamas into releasing hostages Israel has restarted ground operations in the northern Gaza Strip and killed at least 25 people in airstrikes on...Sunday, April 6, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
The number, far higher than any previous estimate, poses a test for the new government. Experts fear that sarin, chlorine and mustard gas stockpiles could be unsecured.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from NPR Topics: Middle East
Just a couple months ago, the Middle East seemed to be calming down, at least a bit. But now the region is heating up again, and the U.S. is very deeply involved. NPR's Greg Myre connects the dots.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from NPR Topics: Middle East
Palestinian medical officials say they obtained video footage that refutes Israel's claims about the killing of 15 rescue and aid workers in the southern Gaza Strip last month.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East
US President Donald Trump has called Marine Le Pen’s recent embezzlement conviction a “witch hunt” and said the charges should be dropped as he, Vice President JD Vance and billionaire Elon Musk line up in support of the French far-right...Friday, April 4, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
Israel launched a full-fledged ground offensive in Gaza City on Friday as the IDF pushed to expand a new militarised security corridor across the devastated Palestinian territory. More than 1,200 people have been killed since Israel's...Monday, April 7, 2025 from NPR Topics: Middle East
It's Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's second visit to the White House since President Trump took office this year, and comes as Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza hits the 18-month mark.Monday, April 7, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
The Palestine Red Crescent released a video made by a paramedic before he was killed, and called the deaths of 15 rescue workers “a full-fledged war crime.” Israel has said it is investigating.Monday, April 7, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
Combatants’ testimonies describe how areas were destroyed to create ‘a death zone of enormous proportions’ Israel’s military razed huge swathes of land inside the perimeter of Gaza and ordered troops to turn the area into a “kill zone”...Monday, April 7, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake Graphic images. Distressing footage. Blurred-out posts that only clicking a consent button will...Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
Four days of shocking violence in north-west Syria left more than 1,500 people dead – including at least 745 civilians – in some of Syria’s deadliest days of fighting since the beginning of the civil war in 2011. Widespread revenge...Sunday, April 6, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
Omar Mohammad Rabea, 14, killed alongside two other teenagers in West Bank town as settler violence escalates A Palestinian teenager with US citizenship was killed after being shot by an Israeli settler in the West Bank town of Turmus...Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
When the U.S. banned Pride flags at our embassies, that sent a clear message. No wonder a top tennis player fleeing Russia's anti-LGBTQ+ laws chose to go to Australia.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
A video shot by one of the medics who was killed in Rafah on 23 March shows clearly marked ambulances using flashing emergency lights as they searched the area for colleagues who had gone missing. The Israeli military has said its...Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from NPR Topics: Middle East
It's been more than a decade since the two powers have had direct talks. President Trump offered few details about what the talks would entail, or when they'd be scheduled.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
TikTok gets another last-minute reprieve ahead of an April 5 deadline to sell itself or face a nationwide ban in the U.S.Monday, April 7, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
The complaint against the businessman, Bashar Masri, does not say that he knew about the Oct. 7 attack in advance but does assert that he was aware of the Hamas military infrastructure at his properties.Monday, April 7, 2025 from BBC News - Middle East
The IDF's killing of 15 emergency workers has drawn international condemnation. BBC Verify examines new footage of the incident.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Middle East
British and French military chiefs travelled to Kyiv this week to discuss strengthening the Ukrainian army and ways to support the war-torn country after any end of hostilities with Russia, France's Thierry Burkhard said on Saturday. Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
Hamas's armed wing released a two-minute clip of two Israeli hostages alive in Gaza, speaking to the camera and describing how they had survived an alleged Israeli strike. Hamas's said on Friday that Israel's offensive was putting...Saturday, April 5, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
A group of Jews who left Syria decades ago wants sanctions relief for a government with former ties to Al Qaeda, despite wariness from other Jewish groups and from Israel.Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
Financial markets continued to slide and pushback against Trump's tariffs continues to grow, both in the U.S. and abroad.Sunday, April 6, 2025 from Middle East
French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a trilateral summit on the situation in Gaza with Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II on Monday and Tuesday. This comes as Israel steps up its new offensive...Monday, April 7, 2025 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
With its Iranian melodies, instrumentation and backing singers, Sheeran’s joyful new single is a reminder of how culture transcends borders The Farsi word “azizam” – meaning my dear or my darling in English – may not have the same level...Friday, April 4, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
The Seattle-area homes of Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell and former Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman are the latest burglaries of prominent professional athletes.Monday, April 7, 2025 from NYT > Middle East
The New York Times interviewed two people who described being detained by Israeli soldiers and looking on as they opened fire on ambulances and a fire truck, killing 15.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
As markets plunged and world leaders expressed anger and dismay over Trump's tariffs, Mexico took a more measured and hopeful approach.Sunday, April 6, 2025 from Middle East
Washington is revoking all visas for South Sudanese passport holders and blocking new arrivals, the US State Department said, accusing the African nation of not accepting its nationals expelled from the United States. Sunday, April 6, 2025 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
The Compton resident was a member of the 'Triple Nickles,' a World War II combat-ready unit who trained as some of America's first 'smokejumpers.'