Europe & Russia

A United Nations official said on Thursday that Turkey has agreed to fund fuel purchases that will be used to provide power for emergency services in the Gaza Strip,...

Spokesperson of the Turkish Foreign Ministry Levent Gümrükçü indicated that his country has reached a complete agreement with Iran to develop bilateral relations, according to the London-based newspaper Al-Sharq...

Assistant Secretary General of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) Mouldi Jendoubi has announced that national dialogue will resume before next Thursday. Jendoubi explained that the differences which caused...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has affirmed his country's respect for and friendship with the people of Egypt despite the current diplomatic crisis. Commenting on the quarrel between Ankara...

A European diplomatic convoy arrived in Cairo on Monday morning to get the latest updates on Egypt's transitional roadmap, which was initially proposed five months ago in the wake...

Switzerland's Deputy Director of the Federal Office of Justice, Susanne Kuster, has said that the Swiss authorities are following the developments in Egypt closely with regards to overturning an...

Turkey has closed the Cilvegözü border crossing with Syria, which is also known as Bab Al-Hawa, after the Islamic Front, a union of six major rebel groups in opposition...

Israel's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Dutch Ambassador in Tel Aviv over the Dutch water supplier Vitens' decision to end its partnership with the Israeli water company Merokot because...

Qatar's embassy in London announced on Tuesday that Qatari citizens will be able to travel to the UK without a visa by 2014. The announcement first appeared on the...

Romania stopped sending labourers to work in Israel two years ago, it has been reported by Haaretz. According to the Israeli newspaper, this was because the Israeli government refused...

Turkish authorities have decided to allocate homes for homeless Syrian refugees before the start of the winter season. The Director General of Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, Dr...

Israeli newspaper Maariv revealed on Monday that US Secretary of State John Kerry has decided to ask Israel to postpone the release of the third batch of Palestinian prisoners...

British foreign minister William Hague said on Friday that a peaceful solution in Syria has to be without Bashar al-Assad. During a visit to Kuwait, Hague said: "We have...

The Dutch government's adviser in the Gaza Strip, Omar Shaban, has revealed that Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will head a high-level delegation to the Palestinian territories next week....

The European Union has denied claims that they intend to suspend financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority if the American brokered peace talks with Israel fail. The High Representative...

Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov criticised Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad for causing tension in Syria after he announced that he might run for president in 2014. Al-Assad has...

On Friday French President François Hollande said that the Geneva II Conference on Syria will not be successful if Al-Assad remains in power. In an EU summit discussing the...

The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey (AFAD) has said that it will organise the delivery of aid to Syria and Gaza with the aim of helping Syrians...

Amnesty International (AI) has denounced the reaction of the European Union (EU) to the growing Syrian refugee crisis. So far, EU member states have only opened their doors to...

Switzerland's Public Prosecutor Michael Christophe Lauber is scheduled to hold a press conference on Monday at the Swiss embassy in Cairo to discuss the investigation into whether Egyptian funds...

Turkey has decided not to attend the inaugural event for the tenth session of an international conference convened at the level of senior officials in Cairo. The G8's Broader...

Military and security officials Egyptian are on the list of names of people to be prosecuted by the international legal team investigating the July coup. The list has been...

Informed sources have told Arabi 21 that the Cypriot President who arrived in Egypt today will discuss with the authorities the possibility of shipping Israeli gas to Egypt via...

Israel has officially become a full member of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, which owns the world's largest particle physics laboratory on the French-Swiss border....

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey's economy is achieving new records on a daily basis even though the world is going through a very difficult...

In cooperation with the government in Paris, Israel plans to facilitate the migration of thousands of French Jews to settle in Israel, the newspaper Maariv revealed on Friday. The...

French President Francois Hollande's visit to Riyadh this week has made headlines in the French media. The French newspaper Le Monde has been particularly interested in the objectives of...

Following the Egyptian authorities' arrest on Sunday of four Cairo-based Al-Jazeera English journalists, the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK (AOHR UK), a non-governmental organisation that promotes human...

The Palestinian foreign ministry announced that the Palestinian Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Gamal Al-Gamal, has died following a blast that took place on Wednesday morning, the first day...

The legal team appointed by the Egyptian Freedom and Justice Party will be holding a press conference on Monday January 6th 2014 at 11am the Cavendish Hotel, Mayfair, 81...

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that he would agree to the retrials of hundreds of army officers who were jailed for plotting a coup against...

The Palestinian community in Britain has announced the start of an unprecedented initiative to aid Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus. About 20,000...