US hard-power diplomacy over Israel will end up being an expensive clash if Washington cuts its funding to the UN   “Strong, sovereign nations let diverse countries with different values, different cultures and different dreams not just coexist but work side by side on the basis of mutual respect,” Donald ...

  Angry countries at the United Nations on Thursday defied White House threats to cut off foreign aid, as they voted overwhelmingly against President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. At an emergency special session of the U.N. General Assembly, 128 U.N. members voted in favor of ...

The UN’s investigator into human rights in Myanmar has been barred from entering the country.   Yanghee Lee had been due to visit in January to review Myanmar’s human rights, including alleged attacks on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state. The government said it had banned her because she was “not ...

The tech company says it takes the measures to prevent sudden shutdown of some devices   Apple has admitted that it takes some measures to slow down the performance of older phones. Primate Labs, a company that makes an app for measuring the speed of an iPhone’s processor, published data ...

Teenager has long history of confronting Israeli occupation soldiers   Occupied Jerusalem: Israelis call her “Shirley Temper” but to Palestinians she is a national hero for fearlessly standing up to Israeli occupation soldiers who raid and terrorise her village. Her real name is Ahed Tamimi. And a video of her ...

Quake comes five weeks after a major earthquake in the country killed at least 600 people   A large earthquake of magnitude 5.2 has struck Iran’s capital Tehran, according to state television. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The report said the quake hit just before 11.30pm Wednesday ...

News agency says arrests are attack on press freedom and US embassy says it is deeply concerned   The news agency Reuters has said it is “outraged” by the arrest of two of its journalists in Myanmar and accused officials of an attack against press freedoms. Wa Lone, 31, and ...

  MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin exhibited his growing diplomatic clout with a lightning tour through the Middle East on Monday, surprising Russian troops with his first visit to a Russian air base in Syria before skipping across the region to discuss bilateral ties in Cairo and Ankara. Along ...

  NASA is set to reveal a major breakthrough in its search for planets that can support alien life. Few details of the event have been released but NASA said the news will focus on a discovery made using artificial intelligence from Google. The Kepler space telescope is used by ...

Arab foreign ministers demanded the U.S. rescind President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, calling it a grave development that puts Washington on the same side as “occupation” and violates international law.   In a resolution issued Sunday long on rhetoric but short on concrete actions, the ...