The entire jury of the Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition has resigned, organisers said on Thursday, a week after the panel announced it would not hand out awards to artists from Russia or Israel.
Iran said on Thursday it would respond with "long and painful strikes" on U.S. positions if Washington renewed attacks, and also restated its claim to the Strait of Hormuz, complicating U.S. plans for a coalition to reopen the waterway.
The French foreign minister met Saudi Prince Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh on Thursday, before heading to Doha, Abu Dhabi and Muscat. A busy schedule that raises a blunt question: does anyone in the Gulf still listen to Paris?
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russian forces would stay in Mali to help the military-led government battle insurgents as West Africa's al Qaeda affiliate claimed to have seized more territory.
A message attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since being gravely wounded on 28 March, has been broadcast by Iranian state television. The regime's credibility problem is hiding in plain sight.
Weeks of conflict have aggravated Iran's dire economic problems, risking calamity after the war, but the Islamic Republic looks able to survive a standoff in the Gulf for now, despite a U.S. blockade that has cut off energy exports.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said that a vessel carrying grain that Kyiv says was stolen from its territories occupied by Russia would not unload its cargo in Israel, describing it as a "welcome development" on Thursday.
The Israeli military intercepted and boarded vessels from the pro-Palestinian "Gaza flotilla" off the coast of Greece on Thursday, detaining approximately 175 activists from more than 20 boats and redirecting them toward Israel, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry and flotilla organisers.
A new Statistics Lebanon poll, cited by Mideast Journal, reveals a striking level of support for normalisation within the Christian community, a significant data point as Beirut and Jerusalem engage in unprecedented direct talks.
The United Arab Emirates' withdrawal from OPEC weakens the group's control over global oil markets and potentially risks widening a rift with Gulf neighbour Saudi Arabia, the de facto leader of the crude producers' organisation.
In a parking lot strewn with rubbish near Beirut's Mediterranean coast, Hassan Yahya has taped a cardboard sign to a traffic signal pole beside the tarp tent that now serves as his home.
Russia plans to stay in OPEC+ despite a decision by the United Arab Emirates to leave, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, expressing hope that the alliance of oil producers would continue to operate amid turmoil in the global energy market.
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