The Authorities in Arab countries, particularly Jordan, the UAE, the Sultanate of Oman and Algeria, have decided to ban the Friday prayer under the pretext of limiting the spread...

Working mothers staged protests on Wednesday against Jordan’s decision to close all nurseries until year-end, saying the move unfairly targets women in the pandemic, Reuters reports. Jordan has already...

A festering government crisis over the passage of a national budget could push Israel into its fourth election since mid-2019, further straining an economy hard hit by the coronavirus...

Iran’s health minister appealed on Tuesday for more public and government support to enforce restrictions aimed at stemming a third major outbreak of coronavirus infections as new cases set...

The UN’s non-binding and generalised Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have provided a diversion in current EU and Palestinian politics. On the brink of experiencing additional dispossession and forced displacement...

Fifty-six US lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate called Monday on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release prisoners of conscience over humanitarian concerns, reports Anadolu...

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be marketing normalisation deals with Arab states as “great achievements”, but polls continue to show a sharp decline in his popularity among Israelis,...

Tunisia’s Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi on Monday gave regional governors the power to order curfews starting from Tuesday to combat the coronavirus pandemic, his office said. His statement clarified...

Turkey’s daily number of new coronavirus cases increased to nearly 2,000 on Monday, reaching levels last seen in early May when restrictions were in place. Data from the Health...

The Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Executive Committee, Dr Saeb Erekat, is in a critical condition having contracted Covid-19 last week and has now been placed on a...

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews have challenged the Israeli government’s restrictions to combat the coronavirus and attended educational institutions across the country on Sunday. The Jerusalem Post reported...

Health authorities in Oman confirmed 30 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday, while Libya reported 26 fatalities, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the Omani Health Ministry said 1,657 new...

Palestinian authorities reopened mosques in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after weeks of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, Anadolu Agency reports. The Ministry of Waqf and Religious Affairs, however, decided...

Defence Minister and alternate prime minister Benny Gantz was admitted to hospital on Sunday after feeling “unwell”, i24 News reports. He underwent a series of tests, in hospital, then...

A total of 79 patients, including infants and children, were brought to Turkey on Saturday for treatment upon the request of Iraqi authorities, Anadolu Agency reports. The patients will be treated...

Iraq reported more than 3,500 cases of the novel coronavirus and 56 more deaths on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. The nationwide death toll now stands at 10,142, according to the Health...

New cases of Covid-19 infections around the world have continued to rise to an all-time high of more than 330,000 per day, Associated Press (AP) has reported. This increase...

An exciting project is unfolding between children in Brazil and the Gaza Strip, Palestine, who are exchanging letters to share their hopes and dreams. Conceived by award-winning journalist Angela...

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics has announced that inbound tourism in Israel has retreated by 76.5 per cent since the start of the year, Quds Press reported on Wednesday....

The number of confirmed daily coronavirus cases and fatalities in Jordan surged Wednesday to its highest level since the start of the pandemic, Anadolu reports. As many as 32...

A forecast by the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee and obtained exclusively by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) is that between 70 and 80 per cent of Palestinian refugees in...

Iranian health minister yesterday announced that a coronavirus vaccine was tested successfully on monkeys, adding that it would undergo human tests “in the next couple of weeks”. “All activities...

Iran registered a daily record 272 deaths from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Monday, taking total fatalities to 28,816 in the worst-hit country...

Human trials of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine, named Sputnik V, will be held in the United Arab Emirates, the second country after Belarus to take part in the programme of...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Kuwait and Qatar last week to discuss regional and international issues. He received a very warm welcome with royal receptions in both countries...

Turkey will start declaring the number of asymptomatic COVID-19 cases from Oct. 15, its health minister said in remarks published on Sunday, following criticism that its disclosure of only...

An Iraqi health official on Sunday urged the citizens to adhere to preventive health measures aimed at stemming the spread of coronavirus, saying that re-imposing a curfew is not...

The Israeli occupation police have prevented Palestinians from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque and performing Friday prayer for the third consecutive week, Anadolu Agency reported. Eyewitnesses disclosed that the Israeli occupation...

Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)’s Executive Committee Saeb Erekat has contracted COVID-19 and has been rushed to hospital for treatment, a PLO statement announced on Friday...

As the financial situation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) worsens, the PA asked Qatar to mediate for Israel to help end the crisis of unpaid tax revenues, Asharq Al-Awsat...

The Iranian rial fell to a new low against the US dollar on Saturday as the economy reels under pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic and US sanctions. The dollar...

The Palestinian Education Ministry in Gaza has started preparing for the gradual return to school