Former Prime Minister Tony Blair viewed Northern Ireland as “similar to the Middle East” with people focusing on “the bad without taking the gains into account”. He made the comments during a meeting in January 2002 with Northern Ireland church leaders...
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Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh is about to step down from the top job after 30 years. But he leaves behind an economy in a state of collapse, and a country in the grip of one of the world’s worst financial crises, as BBC News Middle East correspondent Anna Foster...
The Iraqi government has expelled the Swedish ambassador in Baghdad as a diplomatic row over the recent burning of a Quran in Stockholm intensifies. Swedish authorities evacuated their embassy staff from Iraq to Stockholm for security reasons on Friday. Baghdad has also recalled its...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been discharged from hospital after emergency surgery to fit a pacemaker. Mr Netanyahu had been admitted to the Sheba Medical Centre on Saturday night. His hospitalisation came ahead of a key vote expected in parliament on Monday on...
At least 34 people have been killed and thousands evacuated after wildfires broke out across Algeria, the country’s interior ministry says. Outbreaks of 97 wildfires were recorded across 16 provinces affecting forest, crops and farmland on Monday. About 8,000 firefighters were...