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A two-year-old Palestinian toddler has been severely wounded after being shot in the head by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank yesterday. According to the Wafa news agency,...

Lebanon's Hezbollah, on Friday, denied that five men accused by a military tribunal of killing an Irish UN peacekeeper in 2022 were linked to the armed Shia group, Reuters reports. A...

The European Union, on Friday, added the pomegranate from Turkiye's Sanliurfa region to the list of protected designation of origin (PDO), Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the European...

Private security firm G4S is to divest completely from Israel, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement reported yesterday in an announcement billed as a "major win for human rights...

A former head of Israel's military intelligence, on Thursday, claimed that Iran possesses a quantity of uranium capable of making three to five nuclear bombs, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking...

Jordan's Crown Prince, Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, married Saudi heiress and architect, Rajwa Al Saif, on Thursday in a wedding attended by global royalty, Anadolu Agency reports. The...

A 15-year deal on liquefied natural gas (LNG) was signed between Bangladesh and the Middle Eastern energy hub of Qatar on Thursday in Doha, according to a media statement...

The UK government's appointment of Lord Ian Austin to lead an independent review into last year's Leicester riots has been met with strong criticism. Mainstream British Muslim organisations, local...

The grain corridor in the Black Sea, which was established as part of a Turkiye- and UN-brokered deal last year, has transported more than 30.5 million tons of grains...

The UN Food Agency, on Friday, strongly condemned the looting of one of the Agency's logistics hubs in south-central Sudan, Anadolu Agency reports. The attack in El Obeid "puts...

Hungary's ambassador to Israel yesterday denied Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen's claim that Budapest will relocate its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. "We have been operating a trade office...

Unsurprisingly, last month's article in the Foreign Affairs magazine, which laid down the facts about Israel's apartheid system and Jewish supremacy, generated strong debate and criticism. Writing in the...

Morocco yesterday criticised Margaritis Schinas, vice president of the European Commission, for describing the disputed cities of Ceuta and Melilla as "European", Anadolu news agency reported. On Wednesday, Spanish...

Supporters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Sweden are continuing their activities in support of the organisation despite a new anti-terrorism law going into force yesterday, Anadolu reported....

Hamas yesterday criticised Israel's attempts to Judaise education in occupied East Jerusalem, describing it as an "escalating crime" against Palestinian "existence, identity, geography and history". "This Zionist policy will...

The Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said Israeli occupation forces and illegal settlers carried out 492 attacks on Palestinian citizens and their properties in May. In its monthly...

The Lebanese army has declared a state of "maximum alert" on the country's southern border after the Israeli army threatened to dismantle a tent it uses along the Israeli-Lebanese...

Recent reports have surfaced regarding the alleged deportation of Palestinian families by the Lebanese Army to areas under the control of Syrian forces that are supported by the US....

Egyptian poet, Galal El-Behairy, has started a complete hunger strike, abstaining from food and water, in objection to his continued imprisonment for over five years, a human rights group...

Morocco yesterday announced that it was increasing the number of primary schools that teach the Amazigh language during the next academic year to make it available in all schools...

Yemen's Houthi group yesterday threatened to return to military escalation and resume attacks on economic facilities in Saudi Arabia, in response to Riyadh's failure to settle the humanitarian issue...

Israeli settlers burned land in the northern occupied West Bank town of Qusra, south of Nablus, Quds Press reported. Settlers set fire to pastoral fields, which resulted in the burning of vast...

A confidential European Union report warned of what it described as "drastic acceleration" of Israeli pressure on the Palestinian population in Jerusalem in the past year, the Spanish newspaper El...

There has been a proliferation of diverse analyses running in parallel with the Turkish electoral scene, from its inception to its conclusion, with the "historic" victory of President Recep...

Afghan girls who educate the children of poor families living in caves in a classroom in Bamyan, one of Afghanistan's most deprived provinces, instil hope for the future of...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are expected to visit Turkiye to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan soon, Turkish media reports. According to the report,...

Turkish archaeologists in Istanbul unearthed a fragment of the statue of Pan, who is known in ancient Greek mythology as the shepherd and the god of herds, authorities said,...

Italy has lifted its embargo on arms sales to Saudi Arabia after years of restriction, amid the recent peace initiatives to resolve the conflict in Yemen. Over the course...

Despite the Australian government's diplomatic efforts to secure the release of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, in the UK, US authorities have launched a new investigation into his case, Anadolu...

Shamsa Al-Ali, 65, builds tandoors — traditional clay ovens to bake bread — in Syria's northern district of Tal Abyad to look after her six orphan grandchildren, Anadolu Agency...

The United States, on Thursday, imposed sanctions on companies it accused of fuelling the conflict in Sudan, stepping up pressure on the Army and a rival paramilitary force to stop...

While Israel prefers to obliterate the 1948 Nakba from its historical memory despite being the perpetrator of Palestine's ethnic cleansing and colonisation, the same cannot be said for the...