Middle East

Workers clean the stairs at the site of the shooting incident in Jerusalem’s Old City. REUTERS/Ammar Awad A Palestinian gunman from the Islamist group Hamas killed a civilian and wounded …

Turkish opposition leaders called for immediate early elections on Thursday after the lira plunged 6 per cent to new lows following the central bank’s decision to cut interest rates amid …

Israeli couple Mordi and Natali Oknin walk outside their home to speak to the media following their release Turkey on Thursday freed an Israeli couple who had been arrested for …

Holocaust survivors and participants of the annual Holocaust survivors’ beauty pageant watch the competition from the first row of the audience in Jerusalem. REUTERS/Nir Elias An 86-year-old great-grandmother was crowned …

Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrive at the Al Husseiniya Palace, in Amman, Jordan. Arthur Edwards/Pool via REUTERS Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife …

Saudi Arabia has granted citizenship to a group of expatriates including doctors, clerics and academics, becoming the second Gulf Arab state to introduce a formal naturalization programme for foreigners with …

Basak Demirtas, wife of Selahattin Demirtas The wife of prominent jailed Turkish opposition figure Selahattin Demirtas has been sentenced to 2-1/2 years in jail after being found to have provided …

It has taken $50 billion and two years but the Bank of Israel may have finally accepted it is time to pare interventions and let the shekel juggernaut roll on. …

Dubai plans to merge the departments of economy and tourism and hopes to attract 25 million tourists in 2025, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai’s Crown Prince, …

The Pentagon The U.S. State Department approved its first major arms sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under U.S. President Joe Biden with the sale of 280 air-to-air missiles …