Europe & Russia

The Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, announced Sunday that it will take legal action against the UK, which recently listed it as a terrorist organization, Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking...

Pope Francis said on Monday that migrants were being exploited as "pawns" on a political chessboard in an apparent reference to the crisis at the Belarus border, Reuters reports....

Israel urged world leaders to keep up pressure on Iran and not lift sanctions as part of nuclear negotiations that were set to resume in Vienna on Monday, saying...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says his country is ready to act as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia, even with strained relations between Ankara and Moscow over the...

Imprisoned asylum seekers who were spotted steering dinghies during crossings over the English Channel are appealing to have their convictions overturned, as the British government continues to label them...

The French judiciary yesterday accused local company Nexa Technologies of embroilment in "acts of torture and forced disappearances." Nexa was recently reported to have sold cyber-surveillance equipment to the...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said he will pay a return visit to the UAE in February with a large delegation, Anadolu News Agency reports. "We had a meeting...

Professor David Miller has been exonerated of anti-Semitism by a second report into the row, leaked documents uncovered by the Electronic Intifada reveal. Written by a leading British lawyer,...

Egypt has banned flights from south African countries after the first case of the new coronavirus variant was detected in Belgium in a traveller returning from Egypt via Turkey....

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid arrived in the UK capital London yesterday on a two-day trip that will also see him visit France in a bid to mobilise against...

Iran, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have signed a gas swap deal for up to 2 billion cubic metres (bcm) per year, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, Reuters...

Turkey is reportedly seeking to increase the foreign currency reserves possessed by its central bank, in a currency swap agreement with the United Arab Emirates that could amount to...

The Turkish Foreign Minister, on Friday, discussed the latest situation in Ethiopia with his Ethiopian counterpart over the phone, according to diplomatic sources and Anadolu News Agency reports. Mevlut...

Russia, on Friday, chided the United States for threatening a diplomatic escalation with Iran at the UN nuclear watchdog next month unless it improves cooperation with the agency, saying...

Germany, on Friday, called on Iran to "fully cooperate" with the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and "answer all open questions" about its nuclear program, Anadolu News Agency...

Somalia's international partners, on Friday, called for the ongoing elections for the Lower House of Parliament to be completed in a transparent, inclusive, and credible manner before the set...

British Member of Parliament, Crispin Blunt, yesterday warned the UK against proscribing the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, saying it will have "a terrible chilling effect on putting anything into...

Twenty-seven prominent NGOs in Greece warned, Thursday, that refugees and asylum seekers face hunger following the government's decision in October to halt services to those whose asylum applications have...

The UK government labels Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as countries which are "concerning" due to their human rights issues, an updated assessment by the Foreign Commonwealth and...

The Tunisian navy rescued 487 migrants today from an overloaded boat that ran into difficulty in rough seas in the Mediterranean as they tried to reach Europe, Reuters reports. The vessel...

Moroccan authorities yesterday suspended all commercial flights with France to curb an increasing number of coronavirus cases. The Moroccan Monitoring Committee of COVID-19 said in a statement that the...

Unilateral actions should be avoided in Libya to ensure the24 December elections there take place in a lawful and peaceful atmosphere, said Turkey's National Security Council on Thursday, and...

Lilla Swierblewska, a minority Muslim Tatar from Eastern Poland, always wanted migrants to feel at home in her country. Now, having mobilised the kitchen of a restaurant she opened...

The day after 27 people died trying to reach Britain in an inflatable dinghy, charities said the Channel dividing Britain from France was sure to claim more migrants risking...

Turkey, on Thursday, rescued 37 asylum seekers who were illegally pushed back by Greece to Turkish waters in the Aegean Sea, Anadolu News Agency reports. The asylum seekers, who...

News outlets in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were full of praise for Wednesday's meeting in the Turkish capital, Ankara, between Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and...

The European Parliament has today approved a further funding program for Syrian refugees in Turkey, as the country continues to host around 4 million of them. EU lawmakers approved...

Belgium, on Thursday, tried to downplay scuttled meetings by a visiting top Israeli diplomat, insisting that the measures Tel Aviv objects to are long-standing EU policy differentiating between Israel's...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh has hailed Belgium's decision to label products made in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as a "move in the right...

The ongoing excavations and research works in the seas of Turkey, where the world's first scientific archaeological underwater excavations were carried out, have unearthed 255 artefacts this year alone,...

Israeli Foreign Ministry yesterday slammed the Belgium government's decision to label Israeli settlement products. "The decision to label the products harms Israelis and Palestinians and is out of step...

Germany has pledged €25 million ($28 million) as part of a funding agreement with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to...