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When Somalia's state-run Radio Mogadishu began airing an Italian-language program earlier this month under a new agreement with Italy, it led to an uproar. Somalis both at home and...

A preliminary court hearing for the reopening of the Giulio Regeni trial was held in Rome yesterday. Regeni was an Italian postgraduate student at Cambridge University conducting research in...

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...

Saudi Arabia is on the verge of acquiring Inter Milan football club for an eye watering $1 billion, according to the International Business Times (IBT). An announcement is expected in...

Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, said on Tuesday that his country "has acted with its partners and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to...

A first group of migrants left Cyprus today as part of an initiative by Pope Francis to assist in their relocation, Reuters reported the government saying. Pope Francis visited Cyprus in early December....

Egyptian activist and former EIPR researcher Patrick George Zaki has been released from detention after 22 months. According to Mada Masr, his mother Hala Sobhy fainted upon hearing the...

Kuwait yesterday received two Eurofighter Typhoon jets from Italy, KUNA reported. The aircraft were handed over in a ceremony at Caselle Air Base in Turin, Italy, in the presence of Kuwaiti...

Tunisian President Kais Saied yesterday dismissed his country's consuls in the cities of Paris and Milan and ordered a "financial and administrative audit" at the two consulates. In a...

Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, discussed Libya and Afghanistan on Tuesday with his Italian counterpart, Luigi Di Maio, in Latvia's capital, Riga, Anadolu News Agency reports. "Discussed our relations...

Pope Francis visits Cyprus this week to lend his support to a conflict-riven island now on the front line of a new migratory route for people fleeing their countries...

The Tunisian navy rescued 487 migrants today from an overloaded boat that ran into difficulty in rough seas in the Mediterranean as they tried to reach Europe, Reuters reports. The vessel...

Turkey's interior minister received an award, Thursday, from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean in Rome, Italy, for an app developed by the Turkish government to help women deal...

Push backs in the Aegean Sea have diverted vessels carrying irregular migrants to Italy, Turkey's interior minister said on Friday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Noting recent reports of an...

An Israeli court yesterday upheld a ruling to return to Italy a six-year-old boy, the sole survivor of an Italian cable car disaster who was kidnapped to Israel by...

German rescue charity Sea-Eye said today it had asked Italy for a safe port to disembark some 800 migrants it rescued from boats in distress in the central Mediterranean, Reuters reports....

Tunisian authorities thwarted nine infiltration attempts along the country's maritime borders, local media reported yesterday. Houssam Eddine Al-Jabali, a spokesman for the interior ministry, explained in a statement that...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will head to Italy and the UK to attend the G20 Leaders and COP26 climate summits, Turkey's Communications Directorate said Thursday, Anadolu News Agency...

European and American politicians and bureaucrats refer frequently to "shared values" when they seek to justify their support for the state of Israel. This is usually taken to mean...

The Tunisian National Guard yesterday thwarted 18 irregular migration operations heading to Italy and rescued 340 migrants. National Guard spokesperson, Hossam El-Din El-Jabali, was quoted by local media as...

A Rome judge yesterday suspended the trial of four senior members of the Egyptian security services citing concerns that there was no certainty they had been formally made aware that they were charged...

Palestinian artist Hazem Harb doesn't try to define the idea of Palestine in his work. "For me, Palestine just is," he tells me. "I'm interested in its history and...

Sources have told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that plans are underway to improve a secret cooperation agreement between Egypt and Italy in which Cairo will continue to accept returned refugees attempting to reach...

Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaki, held for 19 months since being arrested on a trip home from Italy, faced trial today on charges of spreading false news over an article...

Saudi Arabia has not abandoned its plan to purchase a top-flight football club despite its recent set-back with Newcastle United and is now said to be eyeing a move for one...

The grandfather of a six-year-old boy who is the only survivor of an Italian cable car disaster said he was looking out for his grandson's wellbeing by bringing him...

An Islamic scholar turned freedom fighter, Omar Al-Mukhtar is best known for leading an armed revolution and guerrilla campaign against Italian colonisers for the last two decades of his...

Human rights advocates have raised concerns about the trial of Patrick Zaki in an emergency court, which started at the beginning of this week but has been adjourned until...

The family of the only survivor of an Italian cable car disaster, a six-year-old boy, today petitioned a Tel Aviv court for his return after his grandfather took him...

In the wake of the group taking over Afghanistan last month, the Taliban should be judged by their actions, not by their words, Italy's foreign minister said Tuesday. "Italy's...

The ambassadors of the Group of Seven (the G7) countries yesterday called on Tunisian President Kais Saied to "appoint a new prime minister as soon as possible, and return...

Pope Francis said on Sunday that he was praying that many countries take Afghan refugees and, in an apparent reference to the Taliban's past restrictions on schooling for women,...