Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi discussed the Middle East Peace Process and relations with the US in a meeting with the head of the World Jewish Congress in Cairo...
Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are pressing President Biden to become the first US president to acknowledge the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as...
A Palestinian professor said that he was denied a job because of his views on Israel and has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Illinois Congresswoman Marie Newman....
The family of a former top Saudi intelligence official who is living in exile and locked in an international feud with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman say they have...
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April 22, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi A brief but revealing press statement marked the meeting of US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield with the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...
Iran has installed extra advanced centrifuges at its underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz that was hit by a blast last week, a report by the UN atomic watchdog showed...
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced that his country has begun talks to purchase a new batch of Russian-made S-400 missile defence systems. Cavusoglu added that the Turkish administrations,...
Palestinian from Gaza Loay Elbasyouni has helped American space agency NASA successfully fly a small helicopter on Mars. Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew over the red planet two days ago,...
Fawzi Al-Daas, the director of Tunisian President Kais Saied's 2019 election campaign, announced that the military judiciary had opened an investigation on 20 April into accusations made by MP...
Facebook says it has disrupted a long-running cyberespionage campaign run by Palestinian intelligence which features spies posing as journalists and the deployment of a booby-trapped app for submitting human...
Iran's support for Yemen's Houthi movement is "quite significant and it's lethal," US special envoy on Yemen Tim Lenderking said on Wednesday, as he called a battle for Yemen's...
A member of the Tunisian Parliament accused President Kais Saied of treason, claiming that he had documents proving that the head of state had received funding from the US'...
Saudi Arabia yesterday reiterated its call for Iran to engage in the ongoing negotiations over the 2015 nuclear agreement, avoid escalation, and not expose the region's security and stability...
Turkey, Qatar, and the UN have agreed to postpone the Istanbul Conference for the Afghanistan peace process, a joint statement issued today has revealed. The high-level conference hosted by...
At least eight people in Israel are known to have the Indian variant of Covid-19, the ministry of health revealed on Tuesday. A ministry official said that the Pfizer/BioNTech...
Chinese company Sinopec has won a deal to develop Iraq's Mansuriya gas field near the Iranian border, the Gulf state's Ministry of Oil announced yesterday. Last year Iraq cancelled...
More than 2,000 retired Israeli officers have sent a letter to US President Joe Biden's administration calling for it not to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, Anadolu reported yesterday. The officers...
Talks between Iran, the US and four world powers aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear agreement will reconvene next week, senior officials said in Vienna on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reported. "Progress...
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April 20, 2021 |
Yvonne Ridley The war in Afghanistan has been called the most pointless conflict of all time. It is probably the most disastrous military venture launched by the US, Britain and their...
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April 20, 2021 |
Motasem A Dalloul After two weeks of deliberations in Vienna about reactivating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran, EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell told reporters...
Egypt has agreed to purchase 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinopharm and expects to receive a batch of 500,000 shots this month, Reuters reported its Ministry...
Egypt's Minister of Education, Tarek Shawki, yesterday praised his country's education system saying that it has reached the same level as the education standards in the US and United...

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April 20, 2021 |
Osama Saad According to a source in Washington, "he Biden administration will look with understanding at the possibility of postponing the elections for some time. Washington would not object to...
Pro-Israel US lawmakers have proposed a bipartisan bill that would provide $30 million over five years to companies that partner with their counterparts in the occupation state. The move...
Palestinian Prime Minister, Muhammad Shtayyeh, yesterday called on the US to immediately intervene and curb Israeli plans to build more than 12,000 settlement units in the occupied West Bank....
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is said to have supported an Israeli plot to overthrow the Jordanian King Abdullah II in exchange for guardianship of the holy sites...
Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh, said yesterday that the negotiations currently taking place in the Austrian capital, Vienna, between Tehran and the world powers over the 2015 nuclear...
A member of Fatah's Central Committee is pressuring Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails to call for postponing the upcoming elections if Israel bans them in Jerusalem, Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar revealed yesterday....
The White House sought to defend on Monday a since-backtracked decision to maintain Trump-era refugee admission levels, citing a hollowing-out of key governmental agencies, Anadolu Agency reported. That included ex-President Donald...
An Israeli general who helped destroy the nuclear programmes of Iraq and Syria has acknowledged that destroying Iran's programme will not be as easy. General Amos Yadlin was one...
Bahrain's flag carrier Gulf Air has announced that it has begun selling tickets ahead of its first direct flights to Israel's Tel Aviv commencing on 3 June. The airline's...
The administration of US President Joe Biden has conveyed several messages to the Israeli government recently, through which it expressed unease over Israel's attacks against Iranian targets, Yedioth Ahronoth...