Asia & Americas

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who suffered years of death threats as a result of his writing, was attacked on stage at an event in New York, a witness...

Israeli tech professionals and trade officials visited Indonesia last month to explore investments, technology ventures and social impact initiatives. Organised by the Israel-Asia Centre, a three-month online programme was...

The number of American Jews who moved to Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank last year was the highest in more than ten years according to figures...

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has agreed to resupply Iran with water from the Helmand River as per the 1973 Helmand Water Agreement, Iranian Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian...

Around 5,000 Russians have purchased Turkish citizenship since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as a way of escaping hard-hitting Western sanctions and gaining economic flexibility. According...

Iran's latest space cooperation project with Russia could give Tehran the capacity to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads in the future, Israeli officials fear. According to the...

The family of retired Libyan General Khalifa Haftar has started to sell its property and assets in the US following the escalation of his legal problems. The family looks...

Israel launched yet another military offensive against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip last Friday. The initial target was an apartment in a high-rise residential building in Gaza...

The US Justice Department has announced criminal charges against an Iranian man, a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), in connection to an alleged plot to assassinate...

A former Twitter Inc manager accused of spying for Saudi Arabia was convicted yesterday on six criminal counts, including acting as an agent for the country and trying to...

A delegation of 32 envoys and senior diplomats from 30 Muslim-majority countries have paid a visit to China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region at the invitation of the Ministry of...

A spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell justified the latest Israeli onslaught on Gaza by claiming, "While Israel has the right to protect its civilian population, everything...

US embassy officials attended US citizen and rights lawyer Asim Ghafoor's hearing in the United Arab Emirates yesterday, a State Department official said, adding that his next hearing was scheduled...

Ambassador Mohammad Sadiq, Pakistan’s Special Representative to Afghanistan has consented to be the Chief Guest

Police in the US State of New Mexico announced yesterday that they have arrested and charged a man in connection with a string of murders targeting four Muslim men,...

Iran made its first official import order using cryptocurrency this week, the semi-official Tasnim agency reported on Tuesday, a move that could enable the Islamic Republic to circumvent US...

The US state of Texas is witnessing the rare trial of an Egyptian man who is accused of committing an honour killing 12 years ago by killing his two...

Human rights organisations are calling on US officials to withhold $300 million of military aid to Egypt as the country has failed to meet the human rights conditions attached...

The Supreme Court of Morocco approved the deportation of French citizen Sebastien Raoult to the United States, where he is wanted in a case of computer hacking. His family...

UAE princess, Sheikha Hend Bint Faisal Al Qasimi, has criticised Israel's latest aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, during which 44 Palestinians were killed, including 15 children, and more...

Honduras is considering moving its embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv, a year after moving it to Jerusalem, according to the Honduran foreign ministry. Former Honduran President Juan...

The European Union on Monday said it put forward a "final" text to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as four days of indirect talks between US and Iranian...

It seemed that it was all but a done deal: Israel was finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine was becoming a marginal issue that...

Immediately after the announcement that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would visit Taiwan during her Asia tour, the complex relationship between China, Taiwan and the United States resurfaced. China...

The Syrian regime's Ministry of Internal Trade raised the price of petrol by 127 per cent, the third increase this year, the SANA news agency reported. The agency said...

The Karkh Criminal Court in Iraq has sentenced four people to life over an attack that targeted Baghdad airport earlier this year and caused damages to two civilian planes,...

The Tunisian coastguard yesterday announced that it rescued 255 migrants during 17 attempts to reach Italy on Friday night. "During the night between Friday and Saturday, units of the...

For some time now, Al-Qaeda had stopped being the primary target of policy and counterterrorist experts. The erstwhile most dangerous terrorist group in the war on terror following its...

Every now and then, the world is fed a dizzying kaleidoscope of tormenting Uyghur accounts. There are millions. In May, the BBC published a damning report proving up to...

Turkiye and Pakistan have strongly condemned Israel's airstrikes on the Gaza Strip yesterday which killed over a dozen Palestinians. Israel yesterday launched a series of airstrikes against the Palestinian...

The Russian Defence Ministry announced on Friday that its air forces had "eliminated" a group of opposition fighters trained by the US in Syria on 4 August. The ministry's...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's recent tour in Africa was meant to be a game changer, not only in terms of Russia's relations with the continent, but in the...