Israel will send $5 million worth of wheat to Sudan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced yesterday, just days after the two countries agreed to normalise relations. “We are...

UNESCO is to send a mission to the Yemeni island of Socotra which is a World Heritage Site amid concerns over increasing threats to the archipelago’s unique biodiversity. According...

Paraguayan officials say workers discovered the remains of seven people — apparently would-be migrants — in a shipment of fertiliser from Serbia, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Saturday. Three of...

Women on a Qatar Airways flight to Sydney, Australia were pulled off the aircraft after a newborn baby was found abandoned in a toilet in Hamad International Airport in...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has called on Israel to help prevent the sale of Islamic art pieces from Jerusalem’s Museum of Islamic Art’s storied collection. According to the Art Newspaper,...

The United Nations said yesterday that Libya’s two rival factions – the UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) and Libyan National Army (LNA) – would hold political talks days...

Gaza students are back at school

Labour Party MP Stephen Kinnock has reportedly been given a “dressing down” after saying that profiting from illegal settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is “tantamount to profiting from...

Izzat Al-Douri, a former close aide to longtime Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, has died in Iraq at 78, the Arab Socialist Baath Party announced today. Al-Douri was one of the...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has deployed military units in the northwestern border area near Azerbaijan and Armenia as tensions rise in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, the official...

UN Security Council is today expected to discuss Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’ proposal to hold an international peace conference, Riyad Mansour, the PA’s envoy to the UN,...

During a meeting held via video conferencing yesterday, Egyptian Minister of Transport Kamel Al-Wazir discussed with his Sudanese counterpart Hashim Ibn Auf ways to support joint cooperation between the two countries...

Opposition political opponent Dr Magdy Al-Safty has died in Egypt’s Tora Prison after being systematically denied medical care. Al-Safty, 61, died on Saturday at the prison hospital after five...

The US welcomed decisions by Guatemala and Estonia to sanction Lebanese Hezbollah on Saturday. Guatemala said it would designate Hezbollah a terrorist organisation last week. While Estonia’s foreign ministry announced...

Manchester United star Paul Pogba has dismissed reports that he has quit playing for the French international team following the latest Islamophobic statements made by President Emmanuel Macron on...

France has urged Arab and Muslim-majority countries to stop campaigns for a boycott of French products and businesses, following calls for action over France’s publication of satirical cartoons of...

Over 800 ex-judges and legal professionals have signed a letter calling on UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel to apologise for comments accusing lawyers representing...

The Algerian Movement of Society for Peace (MSP) called on the country’s President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to take a stand against French President Emmanuel Macron following his attack on Islam....

In a televised speech broadcast on Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “we are changing the map of the Middle East”, in reference to the normalization deal being...

A third-grade primary school student from the village of Aqtiyeh in North Sinai has died after a landmine exploded in the centre of Bir Al-Abed. The rights group We...

A spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Hami Aksoy, on Saturday rejected accusations made by Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, that Ankara’s presence in Syria represent a threat to...

Thousands of Iraqis gathered in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square yesterday to mark the first anniversary of anti-government protests which have called for an end to corruption. Protesters renewed their demands...

Head of Hamas’ Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh yesterday condemned Arab-Israeli normalisation deals, as well as cartoons published in France which insult Islam’s Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him). In...

Head of Hamas’ Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh announced yesterday that a senior delegation is heading to the Egyptian capital Cairo, the faction’s official news website said. The delegation is...

The General Union of Palestinian Women, women’s institutions and rights centres yesterday called on the international community to put pressure on Israel to release female Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar, Quds...

UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) urgently needs $130 million to cover its budget deficit for this year, spokesman Kazem Abu-Khalaf said yesterday. Speaking to Palestine Voice radio, Abu-Khalaf said the...

The European Union on Saturday called on Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to work diligently to reach an agreement on Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam. “Over 250 million citizens of the Blue...

Tourism revenue has declined 61 per cent in Tunisia as a result of coronavirus, the Central Bank of Tunisia reported on Friday. The north African state, which relies heavily...

Chief of Israeli Mossad Yossi Cohen has revealed that Saudi Arabia will normalise ties with Israel after the US elections, the Times of Israel reported yesterday. According to the online newspaper,...

Iranian ground forces conducted one-day manoeuvres in the West Azerbaijan Province near the border with Iraq’s Kurdistan. The army said the manoeuvres, dubbed “Lovers of Velayat-99”, aimed to display...

The United States and Bahrain’s King Hamad Global Center for Peaceful Coexistence signed an agreement in the field of combating anti-Semitism and promoting peaceful coexistence on Friday. “Groundbreaking: We...

Protests continued for the fourth consecutive day in the Sudanese capital Khartoum yesterday after a protester was killed last week. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Central Committee...