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January 19, 2017

Sudan renews complaint against Egypt over Halayib Triangle

Sudan has renewed its complaint to the UN Security Council against Egypt over the ownership of the disputed Halayib Triangle, Sudan News Agency reported. The agency quoted an unnamed...

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January 19, 2017

EU Parliament to host international conference on Israeli settlements in March

The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) has started a campaign to organise an international conference against the Israeli settlements at the European Parliament in Brussels. The PLO Expatriates Affairs Department...

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January 19, 2017

Pakistan refuses to release doctor who helped find bin Laden

Pakistan’s Minister for Law and Justice, Zahid Hamid, said his country will not release the Pakistani doctor believed to have helped the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hunt down Al-Qaeda...

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January 19, 2017

Egypt sentences 35 to death for Muslim Brotherhood membership

A military court in Cairo sentenced 35 Egyptians to death by hanging and 54 to life in prison on charges of storming and burning a police station, killing a...

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January 19, 2017

Israeli bill to annex Ma’ale Adumim settlement includes ‘E1’ area

A proposed Israeli law to annex the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim includes a clause that also annexes the so-called ‘E1’ area, according to a report in Haaretz,...

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January 19, 2017

Israeli ministers to discuss new ‘Jewish nation-state’ bill

Israeli ministers will discuss a new version of a draft law defining Israel “as the nation-state of the Jewish people”, according to a report in Haaretz. The Ministerial Committee...

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January 19, 2017

Trump’s UN envoy pick slams body’s anti-Israel ‘bias’

South Carolina Government Nikki Haley, whom President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to lead US efforts at the UN, said Wednesday the world body is biased against Israel. “Nowhere has the...

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January 19, 2017

US must release Abu Ghraib torture photos, judge says

The US Department of Defense must release a cache of photos showing how Army personnel treated detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison and other sites in Iraq and Afghanistan,...

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January 19, 2017

US envoy warns against being too trusting of Sudan’s armed opposition

The US envoy to Sudan and South Sudan urged the international community on Wednesday to be clear-eyed in dealing with armed Sudanese opposition groups which put political ambitions above...

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January 19, 2017

Outgoing US envoy says UN needs to ‘push’ Iran on arms embargo

The United Nations Security Council needs to push Iran to abide by an arms embargo, outgoing US Ambassador Samantha Power said on Wednesday amid UN concerns that Tehran has...

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