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Russia signalled, on Thursday, that if demands to improve its grain and fertiliser exports are not met, then it will not extend beyond 17 July a deal allowing the...

The US Treasury Department accused Russia's private military company, Wagner Group, of providing missiles to Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and "contributing to a prolonged armed conflict", Anadolu...

Sinan Ogan, the so-called kingmaker in the Turkish elections, has a colourful political history and some strange views. Oga is alleged to have been a leftwinger in his youth and now represents some of the more far-right parties in the country, taking hardline positions on deporting Syrians and preventing the establishment of a Kurdish separatist state or what he calls a 'PKK-istan'.

The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation Affairs will discuss on Sunday an amendment to the law on national parks, nature reserves, national sites and memorials, which aims to impose...

The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), which represents over 45 million European workers and their trade unions, decided today to boycott products made in illegal Israeli settlements in the...

Algeria is working to enhance cooperation with both Italy and Portugal in an effort to weaken Spain's influence in North Africa, experts have said. Citing Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's...

A Moroccan court has sentenced activist Saida El Alami to two years in prison due to statements deemed offensive to the monarch and the judiciary, her defence team said...

The head of Hamas' Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has hailed the victory of the Hamas-affiliated Islamic Wafa bloc in the Birzeit University's student union election saying it represents an "extension" of...

Iran successfully test-launched a ballistic missile with a potential 2,000-km range on Thursday, state media said, two days after the chief of Israel's Armed Forces raised the prospect of...

Kuwait is maintaining a ban it imposed on issuing visas for workers from the Philippines amid an ongoing labour row between the two countries which talks have failed to...

Egypt has deferred payments for its large wheat purchases, in some cases by months, according to a government official and traders, as the country grapples with a shortage of...

China has called on Israel to "stop encroaching" upon Palestinian territory and resources, as Tel Aviv continues to allow and approve the construction of illegal Jewish settlements in the...

Calling it "undeclared martial law," Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, on Thursday approached the top court against the deployment of armed forces in parts of the country, requesting...

Earthquake survivor football coaches provide training to children in container city, located in the city centre of Turkiye's south-eastern Malatya, Anadolu News Agency reports. Provincial Directorate of Youth Services...

Libya's Government of National Unity (GNU) said it had conducted air strikes against smuggling networks on Thursday, with blasts hitting a western city that is home to armed factions...

France, on Thursday, accused Iran of violating a UN Security Council resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear deal after it carried out a long-range ballistic missile test, which Paris said was...

A prominent Bahraini Shia scholar has been released by authorities, days after being arrested over calling for the release of political prisoners. Sheikh Muhammad Sanqour's release was announced today by the...

Israel shot down a drone that had crossed over from Lebanon on Thursday, its military said in a statement, Reuters reports. "A short while ago, IDF (Israel Defence Forces)...

The United Nations is working with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to create a platform to help process transactions for Russian exports of grain and fertiliser to Africa, the...

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, urged Iranians on Wednesday to reconsider the supply of deadly drones to Russia in order to stop their slide into "the dark side of history",...

After two devastating earthquakes hit south-east Turkiye on 6 February, the country's Interior Ministry set up a "+1 Street" for quake victims with Down syndrome, Anadolu News Agency reports....

The Biden administration wants to "move forward" on the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkiye, the White House said Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the report, National Security...

The Israeli Knesset yesterday approved the new state budget for the next two years which includes investing 3.5 billion shekels ($941 million) into expanding Israeli settlement in the occupied...

The Iraqi authorities recovered more than $20 million from Kuwait, after the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) held the amount for more than three decades, the Iraqi News Agency...

Marking Africa Day, Turkiye on Thursday pledged to continue to enhance its cooperation and solidarity in all aspects with the continent, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, the...

Hundreds of Israeli settlers, on Thursday, forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Occupied East Jerusalem under heavy protection from the Israeli forces to mark a Jewish...

Qatar and Bahrain resume direct flights, Thursday, according to Qatar Airways, Anadolu News Agency reports. "Daily flights to Bahrain are starting today. We will increase frequency to three daily...

The United Arab Emirates and Malaysia announced on Tuesday that they have agreed to launch talks to reach a comprehensive economic partnership agreement. The Malaysian Ministry of Commerce said...

A new bill is being proposed which will grant Israel powers to extend its crackdown on human rights groups. The Ministerial Committee on Legislation will put forward a plan...

The Lebanese Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, on Thursday announced his resignation from the leadership of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) after chairing it around half a century, Anadolu News...

Iraq and Saudi Arabia have discussed reviving an oil pipeline connection that was effective in the 1970s and 1980s, a senior Iraqi official revealed yesterday. "There are also thoughts...

Israel has extended the travel ban imposed on Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, the head of the Freedoms Committee of the Follow-up Committee for Palestinians in Occupied Palestine. Israeli police have...