Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has warned of worsening blackouts in eastern Libya due to a months-long blockade of oil and gas facilities, Reuters reports. Blackouts and power cuts have been...

Speaking as one, Palestinian groups Thursday slammed the new agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel to normalise relations, Anadolu Agency reports. Hamas condemned the agreement, saying it...

Bashar Al-Assad Syrian president stops speech due to ill health

Israel and the United Arab Emirates today reached an historic peace deal that will lead to a full normalisation of diplomatic relations, Reuters reported. Under the agreement, Israel has agreed to...

An eight-year-old Palestinian child from the West Bank town of Idna outside of Hebron, died last night from the coronavirus, the Ministry of Health has said. He was reported...

The Iranian navy boarded and briefly seized a Liberian-flagged oil tanker near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a US military official said today. The US Military’s Central Command (CENTCOM)...

Key members of the US Congress have been found to have subtly frozen and blocked all of the country’s major arms sales to Turkey over almost two years, in...

A report released today by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has shed light on the plight of Ethiopian migrants in northern Yemen who have been forcibly expelled in their thousands...

The United States Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, arrived in Ankara yesterday, where he discussed the Libyan conflict with senior Turkish officials, the US Embassy in Libya said. According...

An armed fight between members of the same extended family in the Egyptian province of Fayoum resulted in the death of six people and injury of 35 others. Members...

Israel delivered artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology and equipment to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on Tuesday, reported the Jerusalem Post. Developed in Israel,...

The Grand Mufti of Lebanon, Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian, received the delegation from Alwafa Relief for Beirut headed by Dr. Essam Yousef, in the presence of the Director General of...

The US’ Trump administration is planning to impose sanctions on Hezbollah allies in Lebanon, including on prominent politicians and businessmen tied to the Iranian-backed Shia militia in an attempt...

Hungary’s largest pro-Israel Jewish group has expelled a rabbi for his denouncement of the Zionist state. Rabbi Gabor Finali was shown the door by the umbrella Jewish group Mazsihisz,...

Former Lebanese Interior Minister and current MP, Nohad Machnouk, has become the first senior Lebanese politician to blame Israel for the blast at Beirut Port last week. During a press conference,...

The Director of Tunisia’s National Observatory for New and Emerging Diseases warned on Wednesday that the epidemiological situation in the country is “critical” after an increase in the number...

The Libyan Ministry of Defence has said that at least 55 people are known to have been killed by landmines planted by the militia loyal to rebel Field Marshal...

Prominent Muslim Brotherhood leader, Essam El-Erian, died today in the notorious Scorpion Prison, south of Cairo, at the age of 66, according to several sources. Local media, including Al-Youm Al-Sabe’ and El-Watan newspapers,...

Renewed clashes have erupted between forces loyal to the internationally-recognised Yemeni government and the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Abyan Governorate, south-east of Yemen. A RT correspondent said the clashes...

Outgoing Lebanese Minister of Economy, Raoul Nehme, said the country’s stock of wheat and flour will suffice the local market for the next four months. “Lebanon has 32,000 tonnes...

A spokesperson of the Iranian Ministry of Health Kianoush Jahanpur said yesterday that Russia’s coronavirus vaccine dubbed ‘Sputnik-V’ has not completed the third phase of clinical trials and therefore using it...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune called on the relevant state institutions on Wednesday to initiate preparations for the holding of a referendum on a “profound constitutional amendment” that is under...

Libya’s Tripoli-based parliament yesterday announced a new comprehensive political initiative aimed at “resolving the Libyan crisis, ending the transitional phase, and implementing parliamentary and presidential elections on a constitutional...

Cruise ships operated by Saudi Arabia are to sail in the Red Sea for the first time as from 27 August, the Saudi Tourism Authority (STA) has announced. The...

Several former and current ministers will be questioned by a Lebanese prosecutor over the explosion in Beirut’s port last week, Agence France Presse reports. Questioning is set to start with the former Minister...

Human rights activist and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has begun a hunger strike to protest “the injustice and illegal conditions that political detainees are subjected to in Iranian prisons”. “My...

Palestine expects to become one of the first places to receive Russia’s coronavirus vaccine, Wafa news agency reported on Tuesday. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas thanked his Russian counterpart...

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, rejected a bill on Wednesday which would prevent its members indicted on criminal charges from forming a government, the Times of Israel has reported. Prime...

Turkey yesterday accused Greece of “systematically closing Turkish minority schools” in the country’s Western Thrace region. “Athens’ practice of temporary suspending minority schools in Western Thrace – a region...

Israel tried to expel 60,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Uruguay after reaching understandings with the government of the South American state in 1969, Israeli Public Broadcaster (Kan)...

The United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO) announced on Tuesday that it had mobilised fundraising efforts and expertise to protect the cultural heritage damaged by flooding in...

Classes at the school are now suspended until the building is made safe for the return of students.