Europe & Russia

The Islamic Resistance Movement has expressed its concerns over the proposed deal between the Vatican State and Israel, which implies the acknowledgement of Israeli sovereignty over Christian churches and...

A high-ranking Palestinian delegation is heading to the Vatican to hold talks with the Holy See on the legal status of property owned by the Catholic Church in the...

The government in Tehran has announced that it has halted oil exports to Greece and Spain, and confirmed that it is looking into taking similar action against Italy and...

Dr. Mohamed Badie, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, has visited Pope Shenouda III, the Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Macarius, at the cathedral in east...

Jordan's Minister of Endowment and Islamic Sanctuaries and Affairs, Dr. Abdul Salam Al-Abbadi, has condemned reports by Israeli newspapers which assert that a historic deal between Israel's Undersecretary of...

Palestinian Christians in the village of Beit Jala in the occupied West Bank have written an open letter to Pope Francis in protest at the Israeli decision to build...

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has been reliably informed that formal proceedings will be launched in a London court this morning for the arrest of Israel's Defence Minister, Ehud...

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has learnt that the Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, will address a Labour Friends of Israel reception at the labour Party conference tomorrow Tuesday...

A member of the Palestinian Parliament and leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, Mushir Al-Masri, regards the insistence of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to visit Gaza as...

The Palestinian Forum in Britain condemned, on Wednesday, December 9, the Israeli authorities' decision to deny European Parliament Members access to Gaza, and considered this decision to be a...

Fifty European MP's visited the besieged Gaza Strip this weekend to assess for themselves the aftermath of Israel's offensive a year ago, which left over 1400 Palestinians dead, most...

A conference of foreign ministers of the Mediterranean Union due to take place in Istanbul in November has been cancelled after Egypt and several other Arab countries objected to...

Yesterday, 11 December 2009, the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) published an exclusive interview with a 30 year old man in the West Bank who recounted his horrific experience of...

On the first anniversary of the end of the Israeli war against Gaza, Smash EDO activists in Brighton organized a demonstration against the local factory of arms manufacturer EDO...

Israeli political sources accused the British government of putting obstacles in the Jewish state's path to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).  A vote will be...

Al-Jazeera London's correspondent reported today Monday December 14 that a warrant has been issued by a British judge for the arrest of former Israeli foreign minister Tsipi Livni for...

By Glen Owen for the Daily MailPlans to bring a war crimes prosecution against Tony Blair based on last week's bombshell evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry have been launched...

A statement from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) today confirmed that Britain's foreign secretary David Miliband has been in touch with the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Following the issue of an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, Israel's former foreign minister, Sarah McSherry, partner at Christian Khan solicitors and executive committee member of...

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, Daniel Ayalon, is to visit Britain this week, the first visit by a senior Israeli politician since an arrest warrant for war crimes was issued...

Turkish police detained around 20 students on Wednesday after they pelted Israel's ambassador with eggs to protest the Jewish state's treatment of Palestinians, forcing him to cancel a university...

The British government is said to be 'urgently' looking into its universal jurisdiction laws, following the successful issuing of a warrant by Westminster magistrates' court for the arrest of...

Hebrew media sources claim that the Russian authorities have decided "suddenly" to cancel an International Conference of the Jewish Agency, which was scheduled to be held later this month...

A man humiliated The decision by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, not to run for re-election next year looks like the act of a man who has reached the...

In a letter to the editor of The Times today (18 December) the UK Director of Amnesty International, Kate Allen said the newspaper's denunciation of the arrest warrant for...

As part of the Europe-wide campaign to highlight the issue of Palestinian MPs who have been abducted by the Israeli authorities, Baroness Jenny Tonge has had informal discussions with...

Turkey's Prime Minister Rajab Tayeb Erdogan criticised the Zionist government led by Benyamin Netanyaho saying he prefers to meet with the Sudanese president to discuss the crisis in Dar...

The Families of the Kidnapped Committee disclosed yesterday that "the torture and abuse of our sons in the West Bank prisons is much more widespread than reported by The...

Khaled Meshaal, the head of the Political Office of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has told a Russian newspaper that the United States is "obstructing" Palestinian reconciliation. Along with...

Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon recently canceled a planned trip to Britain for fear of being arrested there. Ya'alon was invited to London to attend a fund-raising dinner for...

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner expressed his fear that Israel no longer appears prepared to pursue negotiations in the Middle East, adding that Paris remains fervently opposed to settlement...

The Director-General of the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) has said that the role of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) remains vital for the protection of Palestinian refugees....