I recently looked back at a photo I’d taken on a smartphone in 2014, and I was struck by just how good it looked. The details were soft, the shadows were dark. It was the kind of …
Oman has spent decades cultivating a reputation as one of the Middle East’s most reliable diplomatic go-betweens, maintaining a long-standing strategic partnership with the US whi…
Leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom will co-chair the meeting of countries pledging defense support to Ukraine in Kyiv on Monday, the French presidency said Friday. …
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has called on Israel to cease its provocations against Türkiye and military operations that would undermine the country’s na…
France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands have issued a joint statement calling Israel's decision to publish tenders for construction in the so-called E1 area of…
Farhad Atrushi, the Second Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament and a lawmaker from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), stated that a "unified" Kurdish stance in Baghdad and a…
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Harvest festivals in Germany, a solar-energy base in a Chinese desert, high-diving in Slovenia, hurricane damage in Hawaii, a traveling circus in France, and much more
The protagonists of the new horror film It Ends are stuck on an infinite road, and they can’t figure out why.
Experts say the project would partition the occupied West Bank, making the prospect of Palestinian statehood impossible.
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Israeli warplanes and artillery struck several areas of southern Lebanon early on Aug. 21, while Israeli forces carried out detonations in border towns, Lebanon’s state-run Nation…