All Stories

July 27, 2023

Bomb blast kills several people at shrine near Syria capital – State media

A bomb planted in a vehicle exploded outside the Sayeda Zeinab shrine, south of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Thursday, killing several people and wounding others, Syrian state media...

News
July 27, 2023

Egypt announces emergency moves to tackle power shortages

Egypt’s government will implement emergency moves, including rationing electricity and increasing fuel oil imports, as it bids to tackle a summer power shortage, the country’s Prime Minister said on...

News
July 27, 2023

Spain grants nationality to runaway Iran chess player

Spain has granted citizenship to a self-exiled Iranian chess player, after she fled to the country following her refusal to wear the headscarf. In December last year, 26-year-old Iranian...

News
July 27, 2023

Pakistan oil companies collaborate with Saudi Aramco for $10bn refinery project

Four leading Pakistani oil companies will join hands with Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Aramco for a $10 billion Greenfield refinery project at Pakistan’s strategic Gwadar Port, Anadolu Agency reports. A...

News
July 27, 2023

‘Handful of donations’ from Russia is not the same as Black Sea grain deal: UN chief

The UN Secretary-General said, Wednesday,, that a “handful of donations” will not be the same as the Black Sea grain deal to help ease a global food crisis, as...

News
July 27, 2023

Day workers try to earn living in northern Iraq in temps higher than 113F

Construction and transportation day workers in northern Erbil province in Iraq are trying to earn a living in temperatures of more than 45C (113F), Anadolu Agency reports. Residents do...

News
July 27, 2023

Jordan, Turkiye condemn Israel Minister storming of Al-Aqsa

The Jordanian and Turkish governments have condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by an Israeli Minister and Jewish settlers today, in the latest such incursion in recent...

News
July 27, 2023

What did we learn from Fridman’s podcast with Netanyahu, Harari and El-Kurd?

One could do a lot worse than interview Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, author Yuval Noah Harari and Palestinian poet and activist Mohammed El-Kurd, if one wanted to offer...

Article
July 27, 2023

Just one example of a diplomat unworthy of the role

The EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process, Sven Koopmans, is just one blatant example of why Israel fears nothing — and has nothing to fear —...

Blog
July 27, 2023

Sister Sinéad-Shuhada: misunderstood, much-maligned, much-loved and Muslim

Headlines and photographs of the singer Sinéad O’Connor told us that the iconic star had died. What followed have been well-deserved eulogies, despite some glaring omissions. Sinéad was beautiful,...

Article

All Stories Archive

Subscribe to our newsletter