Europe & Russia

Britain, on Tuesday, said the time to restore the nuclear agreement with Iran is "running out", Anadolu News Agency reports. The remarks by Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, came during...

The British government has granted over £700,000 ($950,000) to a company that encouraged Afghans not to escape Afghanistan prior to the Taliban's takeover of the country in August last...

Human rights groups and charities on Tuesday called on the British government to provide safer routes for refugees and migrants crossing the English Channel as the number of people...

A member of the European Parliament, Moritz Korner, suggested to the European Central Bank (ECB) on Sunday that BionTech founders couple, Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin, to be depicted...

The UK threatened Israel with recognition of a Palestinian state if it annexed the occupied West Bank, a new book has revealed. The warning was issued in 2020, weeks...

Egypt's prosecution has ordered that detained Egyptian-Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath be released from jail. Ramy has been detained since 5 July 2019 after security forces arrested him from his flat without...

Watson, who played the lead role Hermione Granger in the global franchise, shared an image which read "solidarity is a verb", imposed over images of a Palestinian solidarity demonstration, and stated it was a ‘repost’ from the ‘Bad Activist Collective’.

An Afghan woman froze to death on the Turkish-Iranian border, local Turkish media reported on Sunday. According to one report, an Afghan mother died from severe cold in an...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he will make a visit next month to Saudi Arabia, whose ties with Ankara have been strained in recent years, reports Reuters....

The Kuwaiti embassy in the United Kingdom has encouraged its citizens to leave the country due to a "significant and unprecedented" increase in Omicron cases there, Kuwait's state news...

Ugur Ibrahim Altay, Mayor of Turkish city of Konya, reportedly pledged to rebuild the house of a Palestinian family destroyed by the Israeli occupation in occupied West Bank city...

An online petition asking that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's newly announced knighthood be rescinded has been signed by more than 146,000 people as of Sunday morning, with...

Sweden granted citizenship to over 27,000 Syrian refugees in 2021, remaining one of the most welcoming European countries for asylum seekers and migrants. According to a report by the...

The Armenian government has announced that it is lifting its embargo on Turkish goods from the beginning of 2022, marking a new step in the thawing of relations between...

France has condemned Iran's space rocket launch, describing it as "regrettable" amid Iran's ongoing nuclear talks with world powers, news agencies reported. The satellite launch was in breach of...

A recap of the biggest stories of 2021

On Saturday, 1st January, in the British capital, London, following two months of trialling, a new online platform will be launched under the name 'Al-Arab in UK' to gather...

A group of Iranian doctors received training in heart valve replacement surgery at a hospital in southern Turkey, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, the City Training and...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turks should keep all their savings in lira in 2022 amid recent exchange rate volatility, Reuters reports. According to the report, Erdogan...

Saudi Arabia is on the verge of acquiring Inter Milan football club for an eye watering $1 billion, according to the International Business Times (IBT). An announcement is expected in...

The practice of olive harvesting, which dates back centuries, began in the ancient city of Stratonikeia, located in Turkey's Mugla province, Anadolu News Agency reports. The city was included...

Turkey's Treasury and Finance Minister has claimed that the United States' Federal Reserve does not belong to the American public but is, instead, owned by five wealthy families, sparking...

Iran's lead nuclear negotiator has noted "good progress" in the eighth round of talks with world powers in Vienna, focusing primarily on the removal of sanctions, Anadolu News Agency...

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, held talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the latest developments in the Palestinian cause, according to Palestine's state news agency, WAFA, on Thursday,...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a major road will connect Turkey and the entire region through Georgia, stressing this more than a two-kilometre-long road tunnel will further connect the countries...

Turkey is ready to act as a mediator on the ethnic crisis in Bosnia and will do what it can to ensure stability, Defence Minister, Hulusi Akar, said on...

A spokesperson for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) criticized on Wednesday the Greek authorities for their violent policy against illegal migrants in the Aegean Sea as...

First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy, has said that his country did not agree to any military action in Syria,...

Maritime traffic through the Bosporus, one of Turkey's two main waterways, was suspended on Wednesday after a vessel malfunctioned and was left stranded, Anadolu News Agency reports. The Directorate...

Doctors have increasingly been leaving Turkey over the past decade at an alarming rate to work in European countries and the United States, statistics from the Turkish Medical Association...

French police have detained a French-Syrian man on suspicion of supplying the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad with components to develop its chemical weapons capabilities. According to the news...

This year's global anti-Semitism list published annually by the anti-Palestinian group, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre (SWC), has several surprising inclusions. The BBC, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), social media...