All Stories

September 16, 2018

Europe must offset US pullout from nuclear deal – Iran minister

Europe should take action to neutralise the consequences of the US decision to quit a 2015 Iran nuclear accord to ensure its own long-term economic interests, Iran’s Foreign Minister...

News
September 16, 2018

Iraq parliament elects Sunni lawmaker al-Halbousi as speaker, breaking deadlock

Iraq’s parliament elected Sunni lawmaker Mohammed al-Halbousi as speaker on Saturday, marking an important step towards establishing a new government four months after an inconclusive national election. Parliament had...

News
September 16, 2018

Saudi says it destroyed missile Houthis fired at Jizan province

Houthi forces fighting a Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen fired a missile over the border targeting the Jizan Industrial City in southern Saudi Arabia on Saturday, but Saudi air...

News
September 16, 2018

Sudan’s newly-appointed finance minister rejects post

Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Abdullah Hamduk has formally declined his appoinment as Sudan’s finance minister, state news agency SUNA and Reuters reported...

News
September 16, 2018

Turkey to press ahead with Istanbul canal project

Turkey will press ahead with plans to dig a 45-km shipping canal running parallel to the Bosphorus, its environment minister said on Saturday, despite a government freeze on new...

News
September 16, 2018

Iran accuses French police of slow reaction to attack on Paris embassy

Iran said on Saturday that Kurdish activists attacked its embassy in Paris and it accused French police of arriving late on the scene. Paris police confirmed officers had responded...

News
September 16, 2018

Palestinian official: US will never present Middle East peace plan

The United States will not present its long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace any time soon and is instead trying to unilaterally change the terms of reference for any future...

News
September 16, 2018

Air strike kills 4 at radio station in Yemen’s Hudaydah

Four people were killed on Sunday in an air strike that targeted a radio station in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, residents and medical sources told Reuters....

News
September 16, 2018

Egyptian court orders arrest of Mubarak’s sons over stock market manipulation

An Egyptian criminal court ordered the arrest of ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s two sons on charges of stock market manipulation, state news agency MENA reported Saturday. Alaa and Gamal Mubarak,...

News
September 16, 2018

German minister can’t rule out longer-term military role in Middle East

German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday said she could not rule out a longer-term deployment of German forces in the Middle East, amid a broader debate...

News

All Stories Archive

Subscribe to our newsletter