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As rescue efforts in the Mediterranean Sea flagged last week, and bodies were found more frequently than survivors from among the more than 500 people missing after an overcrowded fishing trawler sank, the European Commission’s president…

President Emmanuel Macron’s new special envoy for Lebanon heads to Beirut in the coming week as France seeks a new push to end a political crisis that has left the country without a president for over half a year, a diplomatic source said…

The United Nations has delayed a decision to give Syrian refugees in Lebanon cash help partly in US dollars after objections from senior Lebanese officials that this could exacerbate tensions with hard-pressed locals. In a statement on…

Palestinian refugees in the Middle East are facing a rising mental health crisis, with women and children particularly vulnerable, the leading official at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has warned. Dr.…

Anger against PM and acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe grows after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees to Maldives. Sri Lanka’s acting President and Prime minister Wickremesinghe, has asked the speaker of parliament to nominate a new…

Belarus on Thursday (Dec 2) denounced expanded Western sanctions imposed on the ex-Soviet country over the migrant crisis that unfolded on its border with EU member Poland. "The depth of the absurdity of the EU's decision on the latest…

Yemen is facing a huge crisis in fuel availability, including the domestic LPG; therefore, many locals were pushed to use firewood, represented in a random cutting for trees, which threatens the ground cover of vegetation in Yemen.…

China will not take the lead in recognising Afghanistan's Taliban government and will only do so in a concerted move with Pakistan, Russia and Iran, an expert familiar with China's foreign policy considerations told Reuters on Tuesday (Oct…

Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has denied a charge of incitement to cause public alarm, media reported on Tuesday (Oct 26), in her first court testimony since a February coup plunged the country into chaos and ended a decade of…

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday (Oct 26) denounced the military coup and "horrific violence" in Myanmar at a summit with Asean leaders, the White House said. Addressing the virtual summit, Biden "expressed grave concerns about the…