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Local leaders in Amsterdam have taken an important step to encourage scrapping the burqa (face-covering clothing) ban in the Netherlands, which came into force in 2019, Anadolu News Agency...

Nine Western countries yesterday urged the Sudanese political parties to begin a political process with the goal of "restoring a civilian-led democratic transition, with the participation of everyone, including...

Israel has repeatedly been referred to as the only democracy in the Middle East. It is said that it was founded on democratic values including respect for human rights...

The ambassadors of 11 Western countries and the European Union delegation in Khartoum yesterday accused the military rulers in Sudan of retreating from cooperating with the International Criminal Court...

Nine European countries on Friday expressed their "deep concern" after the Israeli army closed the offices of Palestinian NGOs in the occupied West Bank, accusing them of being "terrorist"...

"Veiled Muslim women" face more discrimination than others when applying for jobs in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, revealed a survey conducted by researchers from the Netherlands, Germany, and...

Human rights group Adalah yesterday called on the European Commission to take an official and unanimous position against Israel's designation of six Palestinian NGOs as "terrorist" organisations. Adalah's demand...

The Head of Qatar Airways, on Monday, said an "epidemic" of home working has contributed to staff shortages that are being widely blamed for travel disruption in Europe this...

Nine European countries expressed their refusal to stop cooperating with six Palestinian NGOs that the Israeli occupation designated as terrorist organisations in October, due to the lack of evidence...

The Dutch government on Monday issued "deepest apologies' for the role played by Dutch peacekeepers in Bosnia when an estimated 8,000 Bosniak Muslims were massacred by Serb forces, Anadolu...

A Turkish biotech company has gathered over 1,400 vascular surgeons from around the world at the 25th European Vascular Course (EVC) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, Anadolu News Agency reports....

A new survey has found that 51 per cent of the population of the Netherlands think that there is apartheid in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, PAX reported...

The United Arab Emirates has resumed oil supplies to Europe, amid the refusal of local importers to buy Russian raw materials due to the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. According...

Dutch police arrested a 34-year-old man suspected of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity as a member of a pro-government militia in Syria today, the public prosecution service...

The United Nations said yesterday that Israel's expulsion of 13 Palestinian communities in  the occupied West Bank in order to conduct military exercises is "inhumane and illegal." This came during a visit by UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Samer Abdel Jaber,...

Fifteen European countries, on Friday, urged Israel to stop plans for more illegal settlements in the West Bank, according to an official statement, Anadolu News Agency reports. "We are...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday told a Dutch diplomat that it was shocked and dismayed by the country's decision to stop funding a Palestinian NGO. According to a statement, the Undersecretary of the PA's...

The Netherlands has stopped funding the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), one of the six Palestinian human rights organisations designated as "terrorists" by Israel last year. According to...

A Dutch appeals court today ruled that Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz was immune from civil prosecution in the Netherlands in a case brought over the deaths of six...

As many as 2,550 Syrians have applied for asylum in the Netherlands during the third quarter of this year, compared to 1,015 in the second quarter, Dutch NL Times news site...

Turkey did not invite the ten Western ambassadors who called on the release of a detainee to the Republic Day ceremony, revealing Ankara's ongoing displeasure with the envoys. After...

Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Norway, Poland and Sweden released a joint statement on Thursday insisting that Israel halt its plans to expand settlements in...

The plan to expel ten Western ambassadors from Turkey was averted due to Ankara's secret diplomatic talks with the United States, it has been revealed. After ten Western ambassadors—from...

The decision of the Moroccan authorities to suspend flights to Germany, the UK and the Netherlands due to the increased threat of the coronavirus, has left tourists stranded in...

If you poke a stick in a hornets' nest then the results will become painfully obvious very quickly, which is why I am surprised at the headlines expressing shock...

Reports that Holland's ambassador to Turkey has been deported from the country are allegedly false, amid Ankara's diplomatic fallout with Western states. On Monday, ten Western ambassadors issued a...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he had told his foreign ministry to expel the ambassadors of the United States and nine other Western countries for demanding...

Moroccan authorities will suspend direct flights with Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands over COVID-19 concerns starting tomorrow, Reuters reported flag carrier RAM announcing today. Morocco recently announced that it would impose a...

On Thursday 7 October, I received a call from the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Middle East office seeking more assistance to alleviate the...

Saudi Arabia has lobbied heavily against a Western resolution that would extend the mandate of UN investigators who have documented possible war crimes in Yemen, including by the Riyadh-led...

In 2014, a large part of Ismail Ziada's family was wiped out. The lives of his mother, 70-year-old Muftia, his three brothers, Jamil, Yousif and Omar, his sister-in-law Bayan,...

Think tank Transnational Institute (TNI) has called on the European Union (EU) to spend its resources saving lives, instead of punishing people seeking safety on its shores. Europe had...