MIDDLE EAST

Visiting EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told AFP on Thursday that the bloc favoured avoiding a security vacuum and extending a UN peacekeeping mandate in south Lebanon, where Israel invaded…

ANKARA, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Turkey is assessing how it can help Saudi Arabia defend against attacks by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militants under a joint defence pact with Pakistan, Foreign…

By Jonathan Saul and Parisa HafeziLONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Tankers are facing a higher risk of attacks and intimidation as they try to get critical shipments through the Strait…

By Tuvan GumrukcuANKARA, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Intensifying attacks by Russia and Ukraine ahead of the winter are further endangering navigational safety in the Black Sea, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan…

ATHENS, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The US supports an EU-backed undersea power cable scheme in the eastern Mediterranean and will use diplomacy to try to remove any possible hurdles, Secretary…

By Federico Maccioni and Siddarth SDUBAI, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Several global and regional hotel groups are looking to enter or expand in Syria, senior executives told Reuters, betting that…

By Julia Payne and Joanna PlucinskaBRUSSELS/LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Airline executives said safety standards remained high after a flydubai co-pilot attacked the captain with an axe last week in…

STOCKHOLM, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the…

LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - British police said on Thursday a 22-year-old British man, the seventh person to be arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts as part of an…

By Ariba ShahidISLAMABAD, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Eleven years after Pakistan's parliament voted to keep the country out of a Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in 2015, Islamabad has agreed to…