Israeli Interior Ministry

Omer Easa is watching the violence roiling his native Sudan with deep trepidation. The further Sudan sinks into chaos and violence, he fears, the longer he is likely to remain an unrecognized asylum-seeker in Israel, where he has few protections.

Israel has ordered the deportation of two of three Turks who were briefly detained during Palestinian demonstrations last week after U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, an Israeli Interior Ministry spokeswoman said on Dec. 25.

Macedonia's opposition Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev faces fresh criminal charges after being charged with attempted blackmail and for soliciting bribery already.

Now he faces a third charge, of revealing state secrets, after publishing wiretapped conversations which he claimed contained the voice of secret police chief, Saso Mijalkov.