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The European Union is demanding that Israel provide a full clarification over the Israeli army's assault against European diplomats on Friday, especially the manhandling of a French diplomat. The...

France has condemned the latest violence in Egypt and expressed regret over the casualties. Philippe Lalliot, a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry, told a press conference on Monday...

Foreign Secretary William Hague announced on Friday that Britain is to host a meeting of the core group of the Friends of Syria in London on Tuesday. In a...

Russia has criticised what it called the "strange" attempts to use the agreement about the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons to obtain a resolution from the UN to use...

The Arab League has condemned the "violence and terrorism" in Egypt, Iraq and other Arab countries, Turkish news agency Anadolu reported. Political Undersecretary General of the Arab League Fadel...

The government of Cyprus has agreed to establish a base in a disused airport for the UN chemical weapons inspectors working in Syria. The base will allow them easy...

A senior source at Egypt's privately owned Marsa Alam International Airport has announced that Italian tourism companies are postponing flights to Cairo until mid-October because of the continuing unrest...

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that London and Tehran are exchanging chargé d'affaires in a move to rebuild their diplomatic ties. Hague explained on Tuesday that, "the two...

Below is the text from Ismail Patel's open letter to the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia in the United Kingdom. Click here to read about G4S's contract with Saudi Arabia...

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has asked the Egyptian authorities to reintegrate the Muslim Brotherhood into society. The movement was banned by a Cairo court on Monday. Westerwelle discussed...

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay has denied rumours that the government intends to build a fence along the border with Syria. He insisted that all security procedures have...

France has given a conditional welcome for Iran's intention to attend the Geneva 2 conference which will seek to negotiate an end to the bloodshed in Syria. Foreign Minister...

On Wednesday Germany's foreign minister warned its citizens against travelling to several locations in Egypt, especially the tourism areas overlooking the Red Sea. In a statement, the ministry said...

The International Parliamentary Union has renewed its demands to the Israeli government for the immediate release of all Palestinian parliamentarians held in Israeli jails. "The arrest and trials of...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has revealed that Moscow is not willing to accept a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution placing Syria's chemical weapons under international control. France...

The European Union has requested clarifications from Cairo in regards to the judiciary's recent decision to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and all its activities, as well as confiscate its...

German Die Zeit newspaper has published an article stating that Egypt's coup authorities have failed to stop protests despite the use of force and state repression. Meanwhile, the divisions...

Turkish President Abdullah Gül said that forcing the Syrian regime to hand over its chemical weapons is a significant and good step, but warned that resolution of Syrian crisis...

Moscow has accused some NATO countries of trying to repeat the Libyan scenario in Syria. In a statement on the fringe of the International Exhibition of Weapons and Military...

The EU's Middle East envoy, Andreas Reinicke, has confirmed that the union's policy regarding companies based in Israeli settlements will be implemented as scheduled on the first of January...

Three years after Russia cancelled a contract that would have delivered five S-300 missile systems to Iran, Moscow is now renewing the deal, and it also plans to build...

The Italian Coastguard Service announced on Wednesday that it has rescued around 700 asylum-seekers, most of them Syrians including many children, on board three boats in the Mediterranean Sea....

France is to take a tough line over Iran's nuclear programme, President Francois Hollande told Israel's prime minister on Friday. He is expecting hard concessions from his Iranian counterpart,...

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet his American counterpart US Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva on Thursday to discuss the details of the Russian proposal to...

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that it was still not clear whether Western countries would be able to convince representatives of the Syrian opposition to join...

The Sunday Times newspaper in the UK has obtained a draft report by the EU that underlines the concern that the Palestinian Authority has lost 2.5 billion euros in...

The Norwegian Foreign Minister, Borge Brende, is insisting that his country will not change its policy of banning arms sales to Israel, despite calls to lift the ban from...

British newspaper the Financial Times has declared that the prosecution of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is illustrative of how Egypt is taking the wrong track. The newspaper noted...

French President Francois Hollande severely criticised on Monday Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and called for the "final and complete" ending of the settlements. After visiting the...

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Monday that the crisis between Israel and the European Union over the EU's imposition of economic sanctions against Israeli settlements in the West...

A senior official from the European Union has visited Israel to inform the government that it will find a solution to ensure Israel's participation in the scientific Horizon 2020...

The Middle East Monitor, in coordination with Spinwatch, have released a report into the work of the British Israel Communications and Research Centre. The report, Giving Peace a Chance...