Asia & Americas

The price of oil increased yesterday, marking the largest monthly rise in six years, while crude oil prices reached a record high in April, as it rose by 20-25...

Malaysia has denied Shin Bet's claims that Hamas has been providing military training for Palestinian students studying at Malaysian universities. Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar told the...

A well informed Palestinian source said yesterday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) had sought the cancelation of the former US President Jimmy Carter's visit to the Gaza Strip, Quds...

Iran is to ask the UN Security Council to support the potential nuclear deal with P5+1 countries, the country's foreign minister said yesterday. The Anadolu Agency reported Mohammad Javad...

As the shockwaves from the recent devastating earthquake in Nepal have rippled across the globe, so too have international and multilateral pledges to provide the country with financial and...

The board of New York City's transport authority voted yesterday to ban all political advertising on its buses and trains after a judge ruled that it could not reject...

According to Palestinian sources, former US President Jimmy Carter is expected to visit the Gaza Strip next Thursday in an effort to reach an internal reconciliation sponsored by Saudi...

Political parties in Libya's capital rejected a draft proposal on Tuesday which was put forward by UN envoy Bernardino Leon. The proposal is intended to bring about an end...

Besides providing a safe haven for thousands of Cuban dissidents, as well as counter revolutionaries who attempted to overthrow the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro, Miami is currently hosting...

It seems logical to say that religious revival movements are essentially sectarian, as evidenced by the experience of the Protestant movement – which called for a return to the...

The US said yesterday that it supports talks that would lead to a political solution in Syria, even if the discussions included Iran. "We support efforts to restart meaningful...

Something that contributed massively to my own political awakening in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the United States was the work of the brilliant dissident journalist John...

The other day, US President Barack Obama declared that the world should not take Russia too seriously as "Russia doesn't make anything". Of course, this was in reference to...

I am disappointed to see an unfounded accusation against me gratuitously repeated by a well intentioned individual who clearly doesn’t know the real facts. This is particularly troubling since...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on European countries not to resort to military solutions to prevent migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, the Anadolu Agency reported. In...

Holocaust Remembrance Day has just been commemorated in Israel. In Europe, Holocaust Memorial Day is held earlier in the year and is, for many reasons, an extraordinary annual event...

PLO member and head of the Department of Refugee Affairs Zakaria Al-Agha yesterday called for the donor countries to increase their financial support for UNRWA to help resolve the...

Friends and relatives of Islam Hamed, the Brazilian-Palestinian man who started a hunger strike in a Palestinian prison, have launched a campaign on social networking sites urging authorities to...

Former US President Jimmy Carter is undertaking Saudi-backed mediation efforts between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, a Palestinian source said Sunday. "Carter has lately met with prominent Saudi...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has revealed that the air strikes launched by the US-led coalition in Syria have killed 2,079 people. The figure includes 66 civilians killed...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed his country's desire to see a new president installed in Lebanon following an eight-month presidential vacuum. Kerry's comments came during a...

The United States will supply Iraq with F-16 fighter jets in July, the Iraqi Defence Ministry announced yesterday. Iraqi Air Force commander, Staff Lieutenant General Anwar Hamad Amin said...

The United Nations has started looking west in a despondent attempt to find asylum for the millions of refugees streaming out of Syria. Last week UN High Commissioner for...

Arab and Palestinian diplomatic sources unveiled an effort led by former US President Jimmy Carter to move the Palestinian reconciliation file with Saudi mediation. The sources, who spoke to...

The United States has reportedly deployed 12 warships in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean in response to the deteriorating security situation in Yemen. "By having American...

Last Friday, Venezuela hosted the first Latin American Congress of the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine. The initiative brought together Palestinian solidarity activists from various countries across Latin...

The US Embassy in Baghdad said on Monday that the international coalition has launched 3,200 air strikes against ISIS sites over the past 8 months, Anadolu has reported. Almost...

Top Hollywood bosses enjoy a strong relationship with the Israeli government and various pro-Israel lobbying groups across the United States, according to a cache of Sony internal emails leaked...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described the notion that his country was trying to develop a nuclear weapon as a "myth" fabricated by the United States to portray...

A year ago today, Hussein Ahmed Saleh Abu Bakr, a labourer, was travelling to work in Al-Bayda, central Yemen, with 11 colleagues including family members when a drone struck...

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMS) has warned of sectarian war in the country in the light of the continuous killing, kidnapping and deportations carried out by...

Members of the UN Security Council held a closed meeting yesterday to hear testimonies related to the use of chlorine gas in Syria. During the meeting, a video showing...