Europe & Russia

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed Egyptians, Syrians and Palestinians in his local elections victory speech Sunday night in the capital Ankara. "Many people view our victory as...

President Barack Obama must address Saudi Arabia's human rights record during his visit to the Kingdom this week, Amnesty International said. The human rights organisation has called on Obama...

The European Union has expressed its regret for Egypt's failure to implement a series of recommendations aimed at making the country more democratic. The European Commission issued on Thursday...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said recordings of a secret security meeting are "immoral, villainous and show a lack of honour". He continued by asking: "For whose benefit...

An internal report by European Union diplomats stationed in Jerusalem and Ramallah warned of the changing status quo in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and violations of the Palestinians' rights in...

Israel will pay $21 million in compensation and lift the Gaza siege to restore relations with Turkey after the Mavi Marmara raid that left nine Turkish nationals dead, Turkish...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed that his country will continue "working for a fair and stable resolution of the Palestinian problem by means of creating an independent, viable,...

Italian Foreign Ministry called upon the Egyptian authorities to review the court's decision to sentence 529 anti-coup Egyptians to death on Monday. In a statement issued yesterday the ministry...

King's College London Students Union (KCLSU) endorsed the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign at its Student General Meeting on Wednesday night, the motion passing 348 to 252. The vote...

Below is the text of that letter: We write to you as the lawyers on behalf of the Freedom and Justice Party and Muslim Brotherhood (FJP). We last wrote...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu yesterday condemned Egypt for sentencing 529 anti-coup Egyptians, including Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members, to death. "This decision shows the consequences of the military...

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed his concern over the death sentences of 529 Egyptians handed down by the Minya court on Monday. In a press release, Hague said...

The head of the international legal team commissioned by Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party and the Muslim Brotherhood to investigate the crimes following the Egyptian coup d'état in July...

Approximately 1.2 million supporters attended the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan's rally in Istanbul Sunday. In his speech, Erdogan urged politicians to work harder for the success of...

The volume of trade between the United Kingdom and the Arab world has increased by 11 per cent in 2013 compared to the previous year, the UK Trade and...

Today's mass death sentences handed down by an Egyptian court are a grotesque example of the shortcomings and the selective nature of Egypt's justice system, Amnesty International said. According...

The Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Pope slammed Arab Spring revolts as "an Arab winter plotted by malicious hands to fragment the Arab World." In an interview with the Kuwaiti Al-Watan...

Twitter approved Sunday a complaint filed by the Turkish telecommunications authority against accounts that publicised fabricated recordings aimed at smearing officials from the ruling AK Party. Twitter's decision came...

The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Israel's announcement regarding the construction of 200 new settlements in east Jerusalem and 2000 units in different settlements in the West Bank....

A delegation from the International Coalition for Freedoms and Rights (ICFR) issued a statement Wednesday after its recent Cairo visit urging Egyptian interim authorities to "put an end to...

The Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) voted Wednesday to support the suspension of the Israeli Association of United Architects (IAUA) from the world body of...

Head of the Syrian Opposition Coalition Ahmed Al-Jarba called on Tuesday for the EU to supply ground to air missiles to the Syrian opposition. During a speech at the...

Turkey was the only member of the top 10 trading partners of the EU able to increase its exports to Europe in 2013, the European Union statistics office Eurostat...

Britain is preparing to assist in the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons by burning 150 tons of chemicals, just over 10 per cent of the total weight of the...

Nearly 600 migrants of Palestinian, Syrian and Eritrean origins were rescued by the Italian Navy and coastguard off the coast of Italy yesterday. The 596 people included 25 children...

Two Israelis and one Senegalese national are being questioned by police who claim they negotiated the illegal purchase of oil smuggled from a Libyan port by rebels; Cyprus News...

Turkey's Finance Minister, Mehmet Şimşek, said on Monday that his country has achieved a budget surplus in January and February. In a press statement following his ministry's announcement of...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced a pro-Gulen channel for framing the Palestinian resistance in Gaza as "terrorists"....

German customs officials have stopped a large arms shipment from Poland en route to Egypt, presumably to be used in confronting peaceful protesters, sources told the German newspaper Der...

The deputy ambassador of Palestine to the European Union, Hadi Shebli, announced that the European Parliament is still sending a fact-finding committee to gather evidence about the situation for...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to exert much effort to persuade British Prime Minister David Cameron of the Israeli narrative about the Iranian and Palestinians issues, Israeli...

The Syrian regime carried out war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinian and Syrian civilians in Yarmouk, in the outskirts of Damascus, an Amnesty International report revealed. In...