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Interviews
April 4, 2021 |
Anjuman Rahman Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, faced beatings, electrocution mock executions and sexual humiliation in America’s notorious Guantanamo Bay prison
The former crown prince of Jordan and the king’s half-brother Prince Hamzah Bin Hussein was accused of plotting to oust King Abdullah II
Egypt is gearing up to hold a historic procession for the remains of 22 royal mummies through the streets of Cairo today, Anadolu Agency reports. The ancient mummies — 18...
April 1, 2021 |
Mohammed Asad The first phase of the project is expected to provide 55 million cups of clean water annually
The fighters were handed over in the city of Zawiya, to the west of the capital, Tripoli.
Al-Qudwa heads the list and Marwan Barghouti’s wife, Fadwa, is his deputy.
Friends and family of Majd Barbar are cheerfully welcoming him back
Around 200,000 animals are likely to die after being stuck in the Suez Canal bottleneck without enough food or water to last them the rest of the journey. Gabrile...
An Iranian government spokesman defended on Tuesday the signing of a 25-year cooperation agreement between Iran and China, saying the agreement is not directed against any third country. The...
46.5% of the country's population lives below the poverty line and calls are increasing for the UK to grant Sudan a debt amnesty
81-year-old Al-Khodari suffers from cancer and is in need of urgent medical care which has not been provided to him in detention
The list was named “Jerusalem is Our Goal” said Abdel-Latif Al-Qanou, Hamas' spokesman
The 400m-long cargo ship has been blocking one of the world’s busiest trade routes and holding up around $9.6bn worth of goods each day after a sandstorm left the ship wedged sideways across the canal
Ra'am's backing of a Likud government could propel Likud’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu into another term as Prime Minister of Israel
Ghost town: Gaza has introduced a new night curfew to curb Covid cases
China was Iran's top trade partner in 2020 with exchanges worth was $73bn
March 28, 2021 |
Nasim Ahmed A Saudi-led peace initiative endorsed by the Arab League's 22 member states offered Israel a comprehensive formula for peace based on international norms
64-year-old Jamila Al-Shanti was elected to the highest political decision-making body of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement on 14 March 2021
Syrian artist, Mohamed Said, uses the technique of sand drawing to show the suffering of Syrians
A container ship blocking the Suez Canal like a "beached whale" sent new shockwaves through global trade today as officials stopped all ships entering the channel and the salvage...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that he should be commissioned to form a new government or go for a fifth election
Gunmen assassinated a commander of the Haftar militia in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi
7 females from West Bank village of Al Walaja have set up their own carpentry business
Once again Netanyahu needs coalition partner to become PM
Palestine Sailing and Rowing Federation holds an exercise for youth in Gaza
As we mark 10 years since the launch of the Palestine Book Awards, watch our live conversation with Nathalie Handal discussing her seventh poetry collection 'Life in a Country Album', which won the Palestine Book Awards Creative Prize last year.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to secure a solid parliamentary majority in Israel's election, according to TV exit polls early today which predicted no clear winner. The right-wing bloc...
Regular beatings, being strapped to foldable boards and having wrists tied behind their backs are some of the abuses outlined
Saudi Arabia presented a new peace initiative on Monday to end the war in Yemen
El Saadawi was a prolific feminist and woman's rights activists who was imprisoned in the 1970s for her advocacy
Al-Maliki had travelled to The Hague for a meeting on Thursday with British lawyer Karim Ahmad Khan, the new prosecutor at the ICC
Syria and Russia says it only targets militants or being behind the deliberate targeting of dozens of hospitals.