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Saudi Arabia will invest up to one trillion riyals ($266.40 billion) to generate "cleaner energy", Saudi state TV reported on Monday, citing the Kingdom's Energy Minister, Reuters report. According...

Turkish prosecutors, on Tuesday, launched an investigation into Islamophobic Danish and Dutch politicians on charges of hurting public enmity and insulting religious values, Anadolu News Agency reports. The move...

South Korea and Turkiye signed a deal for the engines to be used on Turkiye's domestic main battle tank (MBT) project, Altay, which was on hold after a deal...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday for talks with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, Anadolu News Agency reports. The visit...

UNRWA today appealed for help to meet the humanitarian needs of Palestinians living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza, Thomas White, said the occupied...

Factions in Gaza also called on Arab states to stop normalising ties with the occupation

The United States, on Tuesday, added seven Iranian entities to its trade blacklist for producing drones that Russia has used to attack Ukraine, according a posting by the US Department...

The money exchange shop in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley was buzzing with business. Cell phones pinged endlessly and employees shouted out various rates as customers flocked in carrying plastic bags...

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched an electronic four-day transit visa on Monday for those arriving in the kingdom by air. The visa will be issued free of...

Adalah yesterday filed an objection against the Jerusalem District Planning Committee over the US' plan to build a new embassy on illegally confiscated Palestinian land in Jerusalem. Action was...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, visited the West Bank on Tuesday on a tour where he is appealing for a halt to violence and reaffirming Washington's backing for...

Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has told Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar that his country is acting for the sake of Palestine. Observers believe that this means that...

Iraq's Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein has reiterated the importance of building close relations with regional countries, stressing that Baghdad needs the Gulf Arab states. In an interview with Saudi...

Unidentified drones attacked, on Sunday night, a convoy of refrigerated trucks in Al-Herri village in Al-Bukamal countryside in eastern Deir Ez-Zor, eastern Syria, destroying the trucks and killing and...

With Israeli attacks on Palestinian prisoners for the third day in a row, 120 of them in the Negev Prison announced yesterday the start of a hunger strike in...

The Palestinian baseball team qualified for the final of the 15th West Asia Cup after defeating Bangladesh in the semi-finals, reported Wafa news agency. Organised by the Pakistan Baseball...

Turkiye signed a natural gas purchase agreement with Oman to buy an annual 1.4 billion cubic metres of gas for 10 years, Turkish Energy Minister, Fatih Donmez said, Reuters...

Tunisia's President, on Monday, blamed ultra-low turnout for parliamentary elections on hatred among voters of the Parliament, not to a decline in his own popularity, Reuters reports. The electoral commission announced that...

The UK's High Court of Justice in London will consider, on Tuesday, the legality of the British government's decision to resume the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia that...

"Over the past years, Gaza Strip Municipalities have been struggling and trying to spare no effort to maintain the people's living conditions by innovating new alternatives to keep providing the citizens with the municipal services, even at a minimum."

Israeli banks impose higher interest rates on Palestinians citizens of Israel when compared to Jewish citizens of the occupation state. The Finance Committee of the Israeli Knesset also revealed...

Palestinians in towns in occupied Jerusalem began a strike and civil disobedience in protest of the "demolition massacre" committed by the Israeli occupation authorities. The Israeli occupation authorities intensified...

Israeli violence against Palestinians increased in 2022, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a report issued on Monday. The rights group stressed the need for accountability and an end...

Thousands of workers at the Leonie Wiring Systems company in Egypt have gone on strike to protest low wages. In response, the company's management has shut down ten factories...

The UN special envoy to Libya said on Monday that stability and institutional legitimacy in the North African country will not come through elections alone. "We in the United...

Speaker of the Malaysian House of Representatives, Dato Johari Bin Abdul, has described Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a "champion of Muslims". Speaking during a meeting with the...

Syria and Iraq have agreed to resume easier cross-border trade and direct flights, Syrian media reported on Monday. Flights will re-start in early February. "Baghdad is one of the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman discussed ways to ensure stability of the global oil markets, within the framework of OPEC+. The Kremlin said...

The International Monetary Fund's new loan agreement with Egypt leaves the economic rights of millions unprotected, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and DAWN have said. The $3 billion loan is...

Employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza went on strike on Monday in protest at the agency's lack of response to their...

Cluster munitions continue to pose a serious threat to the lives of civilians in war-torn Syria, a human rights group warned yesterday, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement,...

Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has renewed his call for the dismissal of incumbent President Kais Saied and the restoration of the democratic process. "Any politician with a drop...