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The Home Office's new immigration rules could see over 17,000 mainly women and child refugees prevented from reuniting with family members in the UK in the next five years,...

Interpol has asked authorities in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, to detain the Spanish-Lebanese arms dealer Abdul Rahman El Assir, who has been seen there...

Ramy Shaath, an activist who spent two and a half years imprisoned, has described Egypt under President Abdel Fattah el Sisi as a "banana republic," Monte Carlo International reported...

The military has been commissioned to take over operations in the English Channel as Boris Johnson attempts to save his job, reports The Times, following growing pressure on the...

Iran, yesterday, sent a French-Iranian academic, Fariba Adelkhah, back to prison for breaking house arrest restrictions. The deputy head of the Iranian judiciary, Kazem Gharibabadi, said that Adelkhah had "unfortunately,...

A French court yesterday charged an Arab named Salah Habib of "supporting the Bashar Assad regime's army and its chemical weapons program in Syria." Le Monde reported that Habib...

A French top diplomat said the United Arab Emirates will join a Saudi-French common fund that aimed to provide support to Lebanon, Reuters reports. According to the report, France's Foreign...

France has today arrested a man in connection to the murder of an Iraqi-born engineer, his wife and mother-in-law in 2012. Saad Al-Hilli, his wife Ikbal and her mother...

The arrival of the political activist, the Egyptian of Palestinian origin, Ramy Shaath, to France, after he was deported from the Egyptian prisons, stripped of the nationality of the...

Egyptian authorities have freed Egyptian-Palestinian rights activist Ramy Shaath from more than 900 days of detention after forcing him to renounce his Egyptian nationality, his family said in a...

Former Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Marzouki affirmed that the French authorities have refused to extradite him to Tunisia, after a Tunisian court issued an international arrest warrant against him....

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced on Friday that the explosion that caused critical injuries to a French driver could have been a "terror attack", French media reported....

The French Foreign Ministry yesterday confirmed that around 300 foreign mercenaries have withdrawn from eastern Libya. It follows an announcement by Libya's General Khalifa Haftar's east-based forces last November...

Diplomats and ambassadors from 16 European countries were given a dressing-down by Israeli officials recently when they raised objections to Israel's illegal settlement policy and ongoing occupation of the...

French-Moroccan relations have been strained for months in the wake of claims that Rabat used Israel's Pegasus spyware to gather information from the phones of French officials including President...

Algeria announced, on Wednesday, that its ambassador to Paris will return to his post on Thursday, three months after being pulled back for "consultations", Anadolu News Agency reports. According...

The new year brought with it the welcome news that three of Egypt's most prominent political prisoners have now been, or are set to be, released from prison. Former...

Egypt's prosecution has ordered that detained Egyptian-Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath be released from jail. Ramy has been detained since 5 July 2019 after security forces arrested him from his flat without...

The clip shows Egyptian pop star Amr Diab using his car's camera to photograph a woman crossing the road seemingly without her consent

France has condemned Iran's space rocket launch, describing it as "regrettable" amid Iran's ongoing nuclear talks with world powers, news agencies reported. The satellite launch was in breach of...

French police have detained a French-Syrian man on suspicion of supplying the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad with components to develop its chemical weapons capabilities. According to the news...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that to insult the Prophet Muhammad is a violation of the freedom of religion, and that it should not be regarded as freedom...

Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki described the four-year jail sentence handed to him as "a continuation of tampering", and stressed that "it means nothing, because it was issued by illegal...

Tunisia's Ennahda has condemned the prison sentence issued against former President Moncef Marzouki, describing it as the "cumulation of political trials for those who reject the coup against the...

Four asylum seekers who crossed the English Channel to the UK in small boats have managed to have their conviction for immigration offences revoked, with the UK's Court of...

A Tunisian court yesterday sentenced former President Moncef Marzouki to four years in prison in absentia. The court convicted Marzouki of "attacking the external security of the state," according...

NGO Utopia 56 accuses both governments of 'failing to help people in need': The humanitarian association filed mansulator complaints against the heads of British and French coast guards following the deaths of 27 refugees

Qatar Airways said on Monday it had started proceedings in a UK court against European planemaker Airbus in a bid to resolve a dispute over surface damage to A350...

US Democratic lawmakers are calling for sanctions against four surveillance companies, including Israeli military spyware firm NSO Group and the United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company DarkMatter, that they say...

The French authorities have released Saudi citizen Khalid Aedh Al-Otaibi, who they believed to have been involved in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but only after his arrest...

France will open up judicial archives on the Algerian war 15 years ahead of the stipulated declassification, the government announced on Friday, a move which could confirm the long-held...

The head of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement Rached Ghannouchi yesterday met with the French Ambassador to Tunis André Parant and discussed the latest developments in the country. A statement posted...