A boat carrying 20 migrants sank off Libya’s coast, leaving three dead, an Italian news agency said Friday. Citing Italian navy sources, ANSA reported that an inflatable boat sank...

A crisis surrounding three Italian security guards thought to be undercover Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip has ended. In a statement issued yesterday, the spokesman of the...

Staff at Israel’s Foreign Ministry have been forced to suspend all work-related trips due to a budget deficit estimated to have reached NIS 350 million ($100 million). All Israeli...

A German official has confirmed that his country has no intention of granting new arms export licenses to Saudi Arabia following the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The...

Italy has recorded an 80 per cent drop off immigrants reaching its costs compared to 2017. The number of clandestine immigrants arriving in Europe in 2018 fell by 92...

Pope Francis urged European leaders on Sunday to stop bickering over the fate of 49 migrants stuck aboard two humanitarian rescue ships on the Mediterranean and to give them...

All countries that were granted waivers from the United States to continue buying a certain amount of Iranian oil imports are complying with US sanctions, a senior Iranian energy official said, noting...

Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday condemned as “disgusting” restrictions imposed on women hoping to see the final of the Italian Supercoppa, which is being staged this month...

The Vatican’s Pope Francis in scheduled to hold a Catholic Mass at Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Sports City Stadium on 5 February, local media reported. The National newspaper said the...

The UN Refugee Agency on Monday called on Member States to “urgently offer safe ports” to two vessels carrying 49 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean, reports Anadolu Agency. “UNHCR...

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said yesterday that his country is planning to stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Answering a question during a traditional end-of-year press conference held in the Italian capital...

The border control industry is thriving, both in the United States and Europe. In both cases, Israel is serving the task of the successful role model and the technology...

Turkey received $8.1 billion in net international direct investment from January to September 2018, the Industry and Technology Ministry announced on Friday, as reported on Anadolu Agency.  The sum of...

The Egyptian government yesterday denied reports that it had withdrawn its ambassador to Italy. “The Egyptian ambassador to Italy is continuing to carry out his job duties,” the country’s...

It is no secret that the right wing has appropriated and manipulated the definition of “peace” in today’s poisonous political climate. Peace is now synonymous with power, and little...

Italian prosecutors have initiated a formal investigation into five Egyptian security men believed to be involved in the disappearance and murder of Italian PhD researcher, Giulio Regeni in Cairo...

Egyptian politicians and oppositionists in the United States underestimated the effectiveness of attempts by the regime of the coup leader, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, to influence the position of the...

Italy’s foreign minister summoned Egypt’s ambassador on Friday and urged Cairo to respect its commitment to move quickly and bring to justice those responsible for the murder of Giulio...

Italian authorities will investigate seven Egyptian secret service agents in relation to the brutal torture and murder of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni whose body was found dumped on...

Qatar will more than double its naval forces by 2025 as a massive new base comes online and it expands a national service programme amid a protracted dispute with...

The Palermo conference on Libya went ahead as scheduled — 12/13 November — with all of the local protagonists present, along with many regional and international players. Italy finally...

Qatar’s foreign minister said on Thursday that “whoever is responsible” for the murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi should be held accountable, Reuters reports. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani...

The Permanent Mission of the State of Kuwait to the United Nations informed, on Wednesday, the General Secretariat of the Arab League of transferring $ 42 million and $...

Former Libya dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif Al-Islam will have a part to play in the country’s peace process, Russian officials have said yesterday. Russia is in regular contact with...

Italian diplomatic sources said on Tuesday that Khalifa Haftar, leader of the forces backed by the House of Representatives in Tobruk (east), welcomed the remaining of the Head of...

The leader of Libya’s Justice and Construction Party, Mohamed Sowan, yesterday welcomed Italy’s sponsorship to host an international conference on Libya in its coastal city of Palermo. “Italy is...

Next week, Italy is hosting an international conference on Libya in Palermo, Sicily. Italy has every reason to be concerned about what is happening in Libya, given that the...

Khalifa Haftar, a military commander who controls eastern Libya, has said he will attend a conference in Sicily next month aimed at reconciling rival factions in the north African...

At least one person has been killed and seven have been injured after a migrant boat heading to Italy capsized off the coast of Tunisia, AFP has reported. According...

Italy won’t accept the repatriation of refugees from any European countries, the Italian interior minister, Matteo Salvini, said yesterday. Salvini warned of “shutting Italy’s airports” in the same way...

The Palestinian Ministry of Housing yesterday announced that construction and renovation works have begun on eight residential buildings in the Al-Nada neighbourhood of northern Gaza, the Safa news agency...

France, Portugal and Spain struck a deal on Tuesday to take in migrants from the Mediterranean rescue ship Aquarius sailing off the coast of Malta, the Portuguese Interior Ministry...