Asia & Americas

The National Council of the American Studies Association (ASA) has voted unanimously to endorse the academic boycott of Israel. ASA's members, which number around five thousand, will have ten...

The White House said on Tuesday that it would agree to giving Iran the opportunity to enrich limited amounts of uranium in return for "rigorous" monitoring measures at all...

On Friday Libyan authorities released four American military staff after two hours of detention, an official in the US administration said. The American official gave no more details about...

The Washington Post newspaper published an editorial on Friday condemning Egypt's interim cabinet for designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, arguing that this shows how "Egypt has...

The sale of Israeli military equipment to China has sparked outrage in the United States, leading to the resignation of an Israeli Defence Ministry official. The Israeli newspaper Maariv...

American President Barack Obama said on Friday there was no need for new sanctions on Iran, as that would spoil negotiations over a long-term nuclear deal with the world...

UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk has claimed that "Israel is slouching towards nothing less than a Palestinian holocaust" in his comments about the abuse of human rights in the...

The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been forced to halt the construction of a new IDF training academy on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem...

The Israel lobby in the US suffered a great setback when Congress went on winter break without approving a new bill that would allow Israelis to enter the US...

The members of the American Studies Association have overwhelmingly voted to endorse the ASA's participation in a Palestinian call for an academic boycott of Israel. Following the recommendation of...

In a desperate effort to push forward the peace process, on Friday evening US Secretary of State John Kerry met the Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in the...

The US Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, denied on Sunday any connection between the fate of Jonathan Pollard, a convicted spy for Israel, and the ongoing negotiations between Israel...

American diplomats have ruled out reaching a prospective framework agreement between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli occupation based on American proposals. The diplomats, who preferred to speak...

PHOTOS Dozens of activists braved extremely cold weather in New York City on Saturday to stage a protest in front of the Egyptian Consulate demanding that Egypt open the...

Israel's Maariv newspaper revealed on Monday new details of US Secretary of State John Kerry's framework proposal for pushing the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations forward. According to the newspaper, Kerry has...

During a discussion of the Syrian crisis, which started more than two and half years ago, US Republican and Democratic Senators demanded on Tuesday that the US allow more...

A Palestinian football club in the Chilean capital Santiago has refused to give in to an intensive Jewish campaign demanding that the club apologise and remove a map depicting...

Iran will receive the first tranche of its funds which have been frozen due to US-led sanctions by the beginning of February. The State Department said that $550 million...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that he has discussed the possibility of enforcing local ceasefires in Syria with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. The question...

US newspaper the Washington Post published on Tuesday its most scathing editorial yet criticising the recent developments in Egypt. Under the headline "Egypt's bogus democracy doesn't deserve US aid,"...

A spokesperson of the US State Department, Marie Harf, has described the humanitarian situation for Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk camp south of Damascus, as well as for Syrians...

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) has commented on the oppression campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt. CSM, which is close to US decision makers, ruled out the...

Images An Indonesian non-governmental organisation has collected nearly $15 million from Indonesia's poor and rich alike to build the first Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip. The hospital, which...

Malaysia's ruling party UMNO extended an invitation to the speaker of Egypt's dissolved parliament, Saad El-Katatni, to attend the annual party conference in Kuala Lumpur, a symbolic recognition of...

China has condemned the violent incidents in Egypt on October 6th and the security forces crackdown on peaceful demonstrators, as well as the Egyptian government's failure to conduct a...

China has warned that a military strike against Syria would damage the global economy. Zhu Guangyao, China's Deputy Minister of Finance, told a press conference on the sidelines of...

China has officially requested the Egyptian regime to replace the former chief of military police, Brigadier Hamdi Badin, as its military attaché in China because of his alleged "involvement...

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib abdul-Razak has criticised the military coup in Egypt, noting that it shouldn't have been carried out. Speaking to the CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour...

The General Secretary of the Palestinian Ministerial Council in Gaza, Abdul-Salam Syam, said on Tuesday that Malaysia had agreed a $6million grant for re-construction projects in Gaza. According to...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday in Beijing. The latter expressed his country's support for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. The...

China's special envoy to the Middle East, Mr. Wu Si-ke, today called for the inclusion of the Islamic Resistance Movement in the negotiations aimed at achieving peace in the...

An Australian court has rejected a request made by the police force in Sydney to postpone a march commemorating the Nakba. The police asked for it to be held...