News – Middle East

BEIRUT — At least 19 people, including six women and five children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, a local official has said. Suad Hammoud told the BBC that the dead included former school principal Ahmed Ezzedine and three generations of his …

LOS ANGELES — US actor Ron Ely, best known for playing the role of Tarzan in the 1960s television show of the same name, has died aged 86. “The world has lost one of the greatest men it has ever known — and I have lost my dad.” the actor’s …

WASHINGTON — As the Arctic warms, polar bears face a growing risk of contracting viruses, bacteria and parasites that they were less likely to encounter just 30 years ago, research has revealed. In a study that has provided clues about how polar bear disease could be linked to ice loss, …

SAMAO — Commonwealth heads of government are preparing to defy the United Kingdom and agree plans to examine reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade, the BBC has learned. Downing Street insists the issue is not on the agenda for the summit of 56 Commonwealth countries, which begins in the …

ANKARA — Turkey’s government says its military struck sites on Wednesday night in Iraq and Syria linked to Kurdish militant group the PKK, after blaming it for an attack near Ankara that killed at least five people. Various videos from the attack earlier on Wednesday show at least two people …

By Steve Rosenberg KAZAN — There aren’t many world leaders who’ve been in power for 30 years. Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has been accused of stealing elections, crushing dissent and dismantling democracy. The UK, the EU and the US do not recognize him as the legitimate president of Belarus. There’s …

LONDON — Geoff Capes, the British shot put record holder and two-time world’s strongest man, has died aged 75. Capes set the record for the longest shot put by a British man with a distance of 21.68m in 1980. In a statement, Capes’ family said: “The family of Geoffrey Capes …

JERUSALEM — As someone who served four Israeli prime ministers and was deputy head of the country’s National Security Council, Eran Etzion’s judgment was trusted at the highest levels of the state. A longstanding critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he is also someone whose years of public service earned …

Saudi Gazette report ANKARA — Saudi Arabia condemned on Thursday the terrorist attack that targeted a defense firm in Türkiye. The Saudi Arabian embassy in Türkiye expressed the Kingdom’s condemnation of the despicable terrorist attack on Wednesday that targeted a defense company in the Turkish capital, Ankara, leading to fatalities …

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s total foreign direct investment (FDI) balance recorded an increase of 13.4 percent, reaching SR897.34 billion at the end of 2023, compared to SR791 billion at the end of 2022. This was revealed in the annual foreign direct investment statistics bulletin for the year …