The US District Court for Columbia has issued a summons order for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman over the failed assassination attempt of former intelligence officer Saad Al-Jabri...

The trial of former Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and 27 others charged with carrying out a coup d’état against the elected government in 1989 has been postponed after lawyers...

Some 20 people were killed and 13 others injured due to “torrential rains and floods across various cities of Sudan”, Sudanese Civil Defense announced yesterday. Heavy rains typically hit...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday announced that it had received additional funds to support its humanitarian activities in Yemen. “UNFPA has received $3.1 million from the Swedish...

The Magistrate’s Criminal Court in Amman decided on Sunday to impose a news blackout on cases related to the Jordanian Teachers’ Union. The ban covers news, publications and comment...

Egypt has set-up a high follow-up committee to check dangerous shipments in all of its airports, Civil Aviation Minister Mohamed Manar announced on Sunday. According to the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper, the...

Ennahda Movement in Tunisia has that the formation of a minority government cannot be accepted, Anadolu has reported. Speaking on the sidelines of the movement’s Shura Council meeting in...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement is talking with Qatar about the renewal of its grant for the besieged Gaza Strip, local media reported on Monday. The talks are taking...

Kuwait’s government is working to address the labour market imbalance and its impact on the country’s demographics, a local paper has said, adding that a plan to tackle this...

Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, on Saturday warned of the risk of a disaster in the Libyan oil ports like the one that befell the...

An Iranian official yesterday criticised parties that are using last week’s devastating explosion in Beirut port for political gain, local media reported. “It is not acceptable for individuals or...

Israel is taking an increasingly balanced approach towards Libya’s internationally recognized government of Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, says Anadolu Agency. Haaretz, citing foreign sources, said...

With 3,484 new coronavirus cases, Iraq on Monday reported the highest-ever daily COVID-19 infections, according to the Health Ministry, reports Anadolu Agency. Meanwhile, the ministry reported 72 additional fatalities...

The UN on Monday voiced “total” solidarity with Lebanon, saying it will continue to support the country “in every possible way” following massive explosions that struck the Beirut port...

An Algerian court on Monday sentenced a journalist and activist to three years in prison on charges of harming national unity, a rights group that defends detainees said. The...

Egypt’s government has revamped Tahrir Square, dotting the space occupied nearly a decade ago by throngs of anti-regime protesters with Pharaonic monuments and private security guards. Officials say they...

Iran shut down a newspaper on Monday after it quoted a former member of the national coronavirus taskforce as saying the country’s tolls from the epidemic could be 20...

Turkey dispatched a vessel to conduct a seismic survey in a disputed area in the eastern Mediterranean, a move which Greece said was illegal and is likely to heighten...

The French Ambassador to Lebanon, Bruno Foucher, announced yesterday that his country is participating in the ongoing investigations of the Beirut port blast that occurred last Tuesday. Foucher said, in...

The nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that led to the large blast in Beirut which devastated the city, had been ordered by an explosives manufacturing company in Mozambique...

Saudi Arabia has ended a loan and oil supply to Pakistan due to the South Asian nation’s criticism that the Saudi-led Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is not doing...

The vast majority of young men and women in Saudi Arabia are single, a new survey has found to highlight some of the many social and cultural attitudinal changes...

Over 87 per cent of Pakistanis seeking jobs abroad went to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia last year, data released by Pakistan has revealed. According to the data...

Prime Minister Hassan Diab addressed the nation to formally announce the government’s resignation

A number of former Egyptian members of parliament and opposition party members have signed an official denouncing the country’s maritime border agreement with Greece which was signed last week....

Lebanese authorities are asking for proof that the people killed in last week’s blast don’t have outstanding parking tickets before their bodies are handed over

Intisar Al-Batsh drove through the streets of Gaza to celebrate her graduation from university, riding her father's digger

More than 500 Palestinian prisoners have been detained in Israeli prisons for 15 years, specialist in Prisoners’ Affairs, Abdul Naser Ferwaneh, said yesterday. In a press release, Ferwaneh also...

Oman’s Minister of Foreign Affairs has said that his country’s borders are open to all Yemenis leaving and returning home. “Our borders are open to all Yemenis who go...

Turkey has offered to help Lebanon rebuild Beirut’s port, which was destroyed by a massive blast last week, the office of Turkey’s vice president said in a statement. Turkey...

Egyptian authorities have extended the detention of Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein for 45 days adding to the already 1,300 days he has spent behind bars. Hussein was arrested on 20 December 2016...

Israeli authorities extended the detention of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist Mahmoud Nawajaa for eight more days over the weekend, reported Wafa news agency. General coordinator of the Palestinian National...