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In an open letter to the French government 459 civil society organisations have urged President Emmanuel Macron to stop the French oil giant Total Energies paying millions of dollars...

Turkiye's fourth drillship, bought last year from a South Korean shipyard, was set to join its three other drillships in less than a week, local Turkish media reports. According...

Iran confirmed, Monday, that it will receive part of its $7 billion assets unfrozen by South Korea by the end of this week, Anadolu News Agency reports. Foreign Ministry...

An Iranian newspaper reported that Iranian funds frozen in South Korea would be released in exchange for three US citizens of Iranian origin. On Friday, Entekhab newspaper reported: "Three...

Israel has been the 10th largest international arms exporter over the past five years, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Measuring the arms trade from 2017 to...

Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West's response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars and military conflicts across...

The 1915 Canakkale Bridge is the world's longest road suspension bridge. It has been built over the Dardanelles strait in northwestern Turkey.

The European Union has joined a number of countries who have called on Sudanese authorities to commit to defending media freedoms and respecting the right to peaceful assembly. The...

South Korea and Iran have held working-level talks on resuming imports of Iranian crude oil and unfreezing Iranian funds held in the East Asian nation, South Korea's Foreign Ministry...

In the kingdom's latest venture into the lucrative gaming industry, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has purchased a five per cent stake in the iconic Japanese games developer Capcom...

Egypt has signed a deal worth $1.7 billion to buy K9 howitzers from South Korea, the Defence Acquisition Programme Administration (DAPA) in Seoul announced on Tuesday. According to Defence...

Iran is expected to regain its vote in the UN General Assembly after South Korea paid Tehran's delinquent dues to the world body with frozen Iranian funds in the...

Iran says South Korea is "obliged" to release its frozen assets, and that US sanctions cannot justify debt non-payment, Anadolu News Agency reports. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri,...

Egypt has announced that it is in negotiations with South Korea to co-produce the K2 Black Panther battle tank. #BREAKING: On the sidelines of #EDEX2021, Egypt announces negotiations with...

The United Arab Emirates has opened bilateral talks with South Korea in a bid to boost atomic energy cooperation, the UAE foreign ministry said today. According to the National,...

Do any of America's allies still trust its commitment to them? After the withdrawal from Afghanistan, they must feel a sense of abandonment by the US. Critics point out...

Saudi Arabia will host the final of this year's Asian Champions League on 23 November, Reuters reported the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) confirming today. No venue city has been announced, but...

The US announced on Wednesday that it would allow Iran to use frozen funds to pay off its debts to South Korea and Japan. The move comes in light...

Israel will sign a free trade agreement with South Korea this week, marking the first such arrangement with an Asian market, Israel's economy ministry said on Sunday, Reuters reports....

Iranian authorities released on Friday the South Korean oil tanker seized in January amid a dispute over Iran's $7 billion frozen in Korean banks. The funds were frozen due...

The UAE's first nuclear power plant has started its commercial operations, the gulf state's officials announced yesterday. "The start of commercial operations at the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant is...

Iran has agreed to allow the crew members of a South Korean ship it seized for alleged environmental pollution to leave the country, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said...

A move by South Korea towards releasing $7 billion in frozen Iranian funds may help spur Iran's judiciary to resolve the seizure of a Korean ship being held for...

South Korea's Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong Kun called on Qatar during his visit on Wednesday to help his country resolve the issue...

A South Korean delegation is heading to Iran on Wednesday to seek the release of a chemicals tanker and its 20-member crew seized in Gulf waters by Iranian forces,...

Iran today seized a South Korean-flagged tanker which was reportedly heading for the UAE, media sources in the country reported. Local news sources said the vessel had been seized...

Iranian officials have accused the United States of thwarting its efforts to purchase the coronavirus vaccine, Bloomberg reported yesterday. The agency said Tehran hoped to use the billions of US dollars...

Iraqi Minister of Transport, Nasser Al-Shibli, said yesterday that Chinese companies have been providing services with regards to the implementation of the Al-Faw Grand Port project in the southern...

Iran called on Friday for South Korea to release billions of dollars in funds frozen because of US sanctions, Reuters reports. "South Korea's ban on Iran's use of its central bank...

Saudi Arabia has temporarily suspended travel to and from nine coronavirus affected countries including the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, according to an official source in the Interior Ministry....

Jordan yesterday banned non-Jordanian travellers from entering the country from Iran and South Korea as a "temporary precautionary measure" after the outbreak of the coronavirus. Government spokesperson, Amjad Adaileh,...

Fears mounted on Monday that the coronavirus outbreak in China will grow into a pandemic with disruptive and deadly consequences for countries around the world, after sharp rises in...