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Norway cancelled its permission to burn the Quran, Islam's holy book, after Ankara warned against it, Turkiye's Foreign Minister said on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking at an...

During his recent visit to the White House, US President Joe Biden promised Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the Ukrainian leader would "never stand alone". The grinning Zelenskyy reminded me of...

Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund is considering reviewing its investments in Israel to ensure that its funds do not finance settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli media reported on Friday....

Norway has signed agreements worth $6.6 million with the Palestinian Authority to rehabilitate an electricity transformer substation in the besieged Gaza Strip and provide solar power to schools in...

The richest polluting nations are spending 30 times as much on the military than they do on climate finance for the world's most climate-affected peoples, according to a new...

The Secretary General of the Tunisian Human Rights League, Bashir Al-Obeidi, has criticised the national dialogue that saved the country from a civil war for which the organisation and...

The European Union's Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell is not particularly perceived by the EU's political elite or mainstream media as a right-wing ideologue or warmonger. But seen through a different,...

Norway has donated $6.3 million to the education sector in occupied East Jerusalem in support of its development, as part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Palestinian...

For second week, Iran protests for 'women, life, freedom'

Egypt has topped the list of arms importers from France in 2021 thanks to an order of 30 Rafale fighter jets, making the Middle East the largest arms buyer...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassadors of Britain and Norway in Tehran on Saturday for their countries' "interference" in Iran's internal affairs, Anadolu has reported, citing the official...

After almost 30 years, the Oslo Accords have brought Palestinians nothing but more destruction, killing, land expropriation, the desecration and Judaisation of holy sites and settlement expansion. Oslo established...

A former senior aide of Yasser Arafat said on Wednesday that the late PLO leader was dragged into the "Oslo trap" by his entourage. Bassam Abu Sharif made the...

On 13 September, 1993, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation signed the Oslo Accords, which set a historical precedent in Palestinian recognition of the occupation state, giving it a...

Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday called on Norwegian MPs to pressure their government to protect the two-state solution. During a meeting held in Ramallah with a delegation of...

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...

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...

Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid has refused to meet Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt over the Nordic country's labelling of settlement products. Norway's Ambassador to Israel, Kare Reidar...

Politics is at times compared to a game with Machiavellian actors and rogue figures who are out only for themselves. A former British Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston once said:...

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...

People in Norway and Canada have launched crowdfunding campaigns to help buy Turkish combat drones for Ukraine's war effort against Russia's invasion, following on from efforts made by some...

Qatari telecommunications firm Ooredoo ORDS.QA is in talks to sell its Myanmar unit in what would mark the exit of the country's last foreign telecoms operator, two people familiar with the...

Asylum seekers sent from filthy, dangerous Libyan detention centres to Rwanda say their new quarters are a huge improvement but they still want to reach Europe – raising questions...

Israel has issued a warning to Norway following the Scandinavian country's decision to mandate an end to the misleading labelling of products from illegal settlements. Oslo moved to align...

Palestine, on Monday, welcomed a decision by Norway to label products from Israeli settlements with their place of origin, Anadolu News Agency reports. "We thank Norway for this historic...

Norway has decided to label products of illegal Israeli settlements accurately as such in order to distinguish them from goods produced within Israel's recognised borders, the foreign ministry in...

Sweden's foreign minister today hit out at "disinformation" about Sweden and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), after Turkey accused the Nordic country of giving support to the militant group,...

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...

Two non-governmental organisations said they have recorded an "alarming" increase in the application of the death penalty in Iran with a rise of 25 per cent in 2021 compared...

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...

Norway has pledged to donate $124 million as part of a four-year funding agreement with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt made...