Asia & Americas

Uzbek President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, announced on Friday plans for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to expand, Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking at a meeting of the SCO leaders in...

Ankara is putting "sincere efforts" to end the crisis in Ukraine and let the grain to be exported to Africa, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Friday, Anadolu...

Chilean President, Gabriel Boric, yesterday refused to accept the credentials of new Israeli Ambassador, Gil Artzyeli, due to Israel's killing of Palestinians. Artzyeli had been scheduled to present his...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said yesterday that Tehran is boosting cooperation with Russia to neutralise the limitations of sanctions imposed by the United States. This came during a meeting...

The Palestinian leadership will not accept further escalations and crimes by Israel against Palestinians including daily killings, incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque and settlement construction, residential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, hailed growing ties with Tehran as he met his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Samarkand,...

The United States has decided to send an additional $756 million in humanitarian aid to Syria, amid the "dire" situation millions continue to face in the country. In a...

The Biden administration urged the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority to take steps to stabilise the security situation in the occupied Palestinian territories in an effort to stop...

Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers is "in the ER room" and is unlikely to be renewed soon, if at all, Israeli Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, said on...

Lebanese celebrated at home and abroad on Thursday, despite their homeland's crises, as they woke up to the news that local female dance troop, Mayyas, had won the "America's...

Iran signed a Memorandum of Commitment, Wednesday, for its permanent membership in the powerful regional grouping, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Anadolu News Agency reports. Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian,...

China said, on Thursday, that the US-blocked Afghan foreign reserves should be returned immediately so that Afghanistan could utilise them independently, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The frozen assets are...

The United States imposed sanctions on Wednesday on individuals and entities it linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard for what it called Tehran's "malicious" cyber and ransom ware activity, Reuters reports....

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has announced that the People's Republic of China has donated $1 million to provide quality,...

Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, on Wednesday cited "major progress" in US mediation efforts on a maritime border dispute with Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The completion of the southern...

Five people were arrested in Rome and Brussels for smuggling migrants from Turkiye to western Europe via private jet, in trips costing around 10,000 Euros ($10,000), Italian police said...

Saudi Arabia has handed a 50-year prison term and a 50-year travel ban to two members of the Huwaitat, a large nomadic Bedouin tribe which lives on both sides...

US Senator Chris Murphy has raised the case of Dr Ahmed Amasha who was forcibly disappeared and subject to brutal sexual assault and torture in Egypt, on the Senate...

Sudanese opposition groups marched Tuesday toward the Presidential Palace in Khartoum to protest the ruling military, reports Anadolu Agency. Protesters marched on Africa Street and the Eldaim area toward...

Western powers are lobbying other states on the UN nuclear watchdog's board to jointly pressure Iran to give the agency the answers it has long sought on uranium traces...

Nine Western countries yesterday urged the Sudanese political parties to begin a political process with the goal of "restoring a civilian-led democratic transition, with the participation of everyone, including...

US Senator Chris Murphy has explained to the Senate why the Biden administration should withhold aid to the Egyptian government over significant human rights abuses. I'm heading to the...

The Gulf Cooperation Council called on Monday for the international community to intensify the "pressure" on the Houthi group in Yemen to engage in the peace process and resolve...

Morocco's army chief Lieutenant General Belkhir El-Farouk started an official visit to Israel today to participate in a military conference in Tel Aviv. An official reception ceremony was held upon...

Iran has agreed to release the crews of two Greek tankers it seized in May in response to the confiscation of oil by the United States from an Iranian-flagged...

The number of people forced into modern forms of slavery by poverty and other crises has risen by a fifth in recent years to around 50 million on any given day, the...

Users online noted how the term “Sabra” was insensitive due to the massacre of Palestinians in Sabra and Shatila in 1982

British Muslims have had their citizenship reduced to "second-class" status, a new report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has claimed. The think tank has found that powers...

The head of the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, said today that the international agreement with Iran over its nuclear programme does not give the latter "immunity" from his agency's...

Head of Hamas' Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, arrived in the Russian capital Moscow on Saturday accompanied by a senior delegation from the movement's leadership. In a statement, Haniyeh's media adviser, Taher Al-Nono, said the Hamas leader "arrived in Moscow on a visit during which he...

Israel believes that there will be no return to Iran's nuclear deal before the US mid-term elections, senior Israeli officials said yesterday. "If the US does not give into Iran's demands,...

An adviser to the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has denied issuing a circular announcing the use of the Russian ruble instead of the US dollar, local media reported....