Asia & Americas

Legislation has been put forward at New York's state assembly which would prevent registered charities from sending tens of millions of dollars per year to help fund illegal Israeli...

The Arab League's welcoming back of Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad into its ranks highlights how far behind Qatar has fallen in its bid to be a diplomatic voice that carries...

Three new ships were authorised on Thursday to take part in a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, said the United Nations, as global wheat...

A new report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) has revealed a significant disparity in the treatment of unaccompanied minors of asylum seekers compared to the accompanied...

Tunisian's troubling slide back into authoritarianism and the crushing of democracy by President Kais Saied was the focus of a private briefing this week between British parliamentarians, family members...

Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, a pariah for more than a decade, is expected to steal the spotlight at Friday's Arab League Summit in Saudi Arabia, where he will rub shoulders...

Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, is expected to attend an Arab Summit in Saudi Arabia on Friday, ending his isolation by states that shunned him during a civil war that...

The top diplomats of Iran and Afghanistan, on Thursday, discussed over the phone the long-running water dispute, according to the Afghan Foreign Ministry, Anadolu News Agency reports. During the...

Iran and Pakistan, on Thursday, inaugurated a joint border market as well as an electricity transmission line in the presence of top government officials, Anadolu News Agency reports. The...

Pakistan faces a hefty $18 billion penalty if it fails to complete a gas pipeline project with Iran, Dawn has reported. Iran has already built its section of the...

Dozens of academics in Europe and the US signed an open letter calling on the Tunisian authorities to release the head of the Ennahda Movement, Rashid Ghannouchi, and all...

Western media has alluded to a possible boost of the Turkish economy to increase opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu's chances of beating Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the runoff elections,...

The US national security advisor described the extension on Wednesday of the Black Sea grain deal as "a good thing". Speaking to reporters alongside White House spokesman Karine Jean-Pierre,...

US Ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, said the US administration is exerting efforts to normalise relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, Anadolu News Agency reports. In an interview to...

Post-9/11 conflicts and invasions in the Middle East and other surrounding regions have directly and indirectly killed at least 4.5 million people over the past two decades, a new...

Following his 2020 US presidential election defeat, a new chapter has unfolded for Donald Trump as the former president finds himself embroiled in multiple investigations and legal challenges. Notably,...

Indian politician Kaneez Fatima has been protesting for over a year against a ban on hijabs in colleges, in her home state of Karnataka. Despite the ban and the toxic atmosphere created by Hindu nationalist protests, Fatima beat her anti-hijab rival from the BJP to be re-elected to the legislative assembly.

The US and Syria have engaged in secret, direct negotiations in Oman, according to a report by The Cradle yesterday, citing a senior diplomatic source in the Arab League....

Pakistan's Shehroz Kashif, on Wednesday, scaled the 8,167-meter (26,795-feet) Dhaulagiri Mountain in Nepal, becoming the world's youngest climber to summit 12 peaks above 8,000 meters, Anadolu News Agency reports....

A lawsuit has been filed in the US against senior officials in Saudi Arabia including Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Saeed Al-Qahtani, a former top aide who was...

The mayor of the Brazilian port city of Belem, Edmilson Rodrigues, has declared his city an Apartheid Free Zone, denouncing Israel's "expulsion of a people from their ancestral territory, a true apartheid",...

The late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rejected a US proposal to name his vice president without power in return for his release, the head of Saddam's legal defence team...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has failed to secure victory in the first round of the Turkish presidential elections, after receiving 49.5 per cent of the votes. A second...

The US National Security Advisor reiterated, Tuesday, the country's commitment to ending the war in Yemen, Anadolu News Agency reports. Jake Sullivan met UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans...

Statements by the Egyptian billionaire, Samih Sawiris, about the feasibility of investing in Egypt, raise real concerns about the blurred economic future in the country, the faltering activities of...

Some Afghan families who were placed in hotels before being put into temporary accommodation across the UK are being sent letters of eviction by the Home Office, Anadolu News...

Solidarity activists across Latin America have marked the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba with talks, meetings, cultural activities, media interviews and social media campaigns. The Palestinian flag has...

Iran has stepped up pressure on the Taliban government in Afghanistan to resolve a long-running dispute over shared water resources, Anadolu News Agency reports. The dispute is centred on...

"The thought that an international organisation could mark the establishment of one of its member states as a catastrophe or disaster is both appalling and repulsive," wrote Israel's UN...

Welcoming the expansion of aid to all affected populations in conflict-hit Ukraine, China has put its weight behind the "full implementation" of the Black Sea grain deal, Anadolu News...

Kuwait, Afghanistan and Palestine returned to using the death penalty after years of not implementing the punishment

The US has congratulated the Turkish people on holding "peaceful" presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday, Anadolu has reported. "The Biden administration lauds the Turkish people for expressing their...