Middle East
Iran says it has successfully launched ballistic missile
Iran successfully tested a 2,000 km-range ballistic missile on Thursday, Iranian state media said, two days after the chief of Israel’s armed ...Saudi embrace of Assad sends strong signal to US
Once labelled a pariah, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took centre stage as master of ceremonies last week when Arab states ...Indonesia, Iran sign preferential trade agreement
The leaders of Indonesia and Iran on Tuesday signed a preferential trade agreement to expand economic relations during an official visit by ...Three Palestinian militants killed in Israeli raid in West Bank
Israeli security forces killed three Palestinian militants during a large-scale raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian and Israeli sources ...G7 offers Ukraine long-term support, Zelenskiy laments Bakhmut ‘tragedy’
Leaders of the world’s richest democracies said on Sunday they would not back down from supporting Ukraine, in a warning to Russian ...Zelenskiy joins Japan G7 as democracies take aim at Russia and China
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy brought his call for support against Russia’s invasion to a Group of Seven (G7) summit on Saturday to Japan, ...Syria’s Assad wins warm welcome at Arab summit after years of isolation
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was given a warm welcome at an Arab summit on Friday, winning a hug from Saudi Arabia’s crown prince at ...More than half of the world’s large lakes are drying up, study finds
More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying ...Turkey faces election runoff, Erdogan seen with momentum
President Tayyip Erdogan’s opponents face an uphill struggle to end his two-decade rule of Turkey in a runoff vote on May 28 ...Turkey election rivals both claim early lead but runoff likely
Turkey appeared headed for a runoff presidential election with the parties of Tayyip Erdogan and opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu each claiming the ...











