EU lawmakers on Tuesday called on Beijing to implement stricter checks on exports during their first visit to China in eight years. "We have repeatedly stressed that it is important for exports to be subject to stronger controls on the Chinese side," said Anna Cavazzini, chair of the European Parliament's Internal Market Committee, in Beijing.
Defence Minister Israel Katz also says houses in Lebanese villages near the Israeli border will be demolished.
“We launched a plan we call ‘For Iran’, which is a registration program for homeland defense fighters,” Nadali told state media. “We set the minimum age at 12 years and above.
Solomon Ogbonna Eziko's installation as an Igbo leader in East London has sparked tensions.
Pakistan and China issued a five-point initiative on Tuesday to restore peace and stability in The Gulf and Middle East region, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities. "China and Pakistan call for immediate cessation of hostilities and utmost efforts to prevent the conflict from spreading," said a statement issued following high-level talks in Beijing.
Following the March 2026 Eid al-Fitr celebrations in South Africa, an image purporting to show South African police arresting undocumented Muslims for “praying illegally” in Johannesburg was shared on social media, fanning anti-foreigner sentiment. But the claims are false; the image was generated using artificial intelligence (AI). Police also denied the incident.
Egypt has moved to calm tourists nerves over scaled-back opening hours of shops and restaurants due to the war in Iran, after the country announced it would enforce an earlier closing time due to the oil crisis. Egypt's large-scale energy-saving measures are not intended to apply to popular travel destinations such as Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Luxor, Aswan and Sharm El Sheikh, the tourism ministry said as the rules took effect at the end of March.
Sexual violence against women and girls is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan 's fierce conflict between the military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, international aid group Doctors Without Borders said in a report Tuesday. Sudan slid into chaos in April 2023 when a power struggle between the two forces exploded into open fighting in Khartoum and elsewhere. The International Criminal Court is investigating mass killings, gang rapes and other crimes during the conflict as potential w
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across the embattled Palestinian territories Tuesday in outrage after Israel's parliament passed a measure establishing the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis. Palestinians young and old held sit-ins and marches in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the territory where the new law is most sweeping. It orders West Bank military courts — which try only Palestinians — to make the death penalty the default sentence for
The Middle East accounts for 9% of the world’s production of aluminum.