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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...

The United States has warned that a new Turkish military operation into northern Syria would cause regional instability, threatening to condemn such a move and escalation of conflict. Speaking...

Saudi Arabia is in talks to acquire Turkey's Bayraktar unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), according to a recent report by the geopolitical and market intelligence website Tactical Report. "The Saudi...

Oman and Syria are to enhance bilateral relations following a meeting between Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Hamad Al-Busaidi and Syria's Minister of Culture, Dr Lubanah Mshaweh, on Sunday. According...

Yemen is searching for new wheat suppliers but will need help to pay for increasingly costly imports, an official and a main importer said, as the World Food Programme...

Over 100 million people have been driven from their homes around the world, according to new data released by the UNHCR, making it the highest number on record. The...

Three months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has closed off access to lower-priced Black Sea wheat, owners of five mills in the Palestinian Gaza Strip are feeling...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has drafted Syrian barrel bomb specialists to Russia, aiding the Russian war in Ukraine, the Guardian reports. According to the report, European intelligence officers told the Guardian that more than 50...

Residents holed up in Syria's Rukban camp on the Jordanian border are suffering from a severe food shortage after soldiers prevented smugglers from bringing food to the camp. The...

Russian forces are reported to have been withdrawn from Latakia governorate in the west of Syria and sent to the Russian-controlled Hmeimim Air Base on the Mediterranean coast, Al-Sharq...

Israeli Special Forces are said to be fighting against Russian troops in Ukraine, Sama news agency reported on Sunday. An Israeli TV channel aired footage of the soldiers, confirming...

The assassination of Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, is "a disaster that shook the world", Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, has said, adding that only a few people...

Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, thanked Egypt on Thursday for turning away a Russian ship loaded with grain which he said had been stolen from Ukraine, Reuters reports. Egypt's...

Turkiye will say "no" to entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday, as senior representatives of the two countries are set to visit...

Ukrainian citizen Victoria Saidem has sought refuge from the war in her own country by going to Gaza with her husband, despite it being under an Israel-led siege since...

Some 59.1 million people were internally displaced in 2021, up from 55 million a year earlier, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said today. "The situation today is phenomenally worse...

Freudian slip? Bush confuses Ukraine with Iraq

Farmers usually harvest barley before wheat because it grows faster, while the wheat harvest varies in time depending on the location of the farm in the Strip

Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee member Hussein Al-Sheikh arrived in the Russian capital Moscow for talks yesterday. Fatah leader, Abdullah Abdullah, told Al-Watan Voice that the talks would focus...

About 300,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat booked by Egypt's state grains buyer for delivery in February and March is yet to be shipped, with one cargo stuck in port...

Saudi Arabia has assured its citizens that there is no shortage of wheat supplies in the country, amid global shortages exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the...

The global reaction against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine has led to fresh concerns about Turkiye's first nuclear power plant, which is being built by Moscow's state-owned nuclear company,...

The crisis on the global economy brought on by the war in Ukraine has accelerated the demand for green hydrogen in the Middle East and North Africa region, according...

The Egyptian regime is thought to be taking extra precautions to prevent an uprising as the economic crisis following the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to spiral. Eighty per...

Sweden will formally apply for NATO membership in the next few days, Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, said on Monday, but its accession process, and that of Finland, hit a...

A song titled "Glory to Russia" in Arabic caused Facebook moderators to shut down a Syrian government page, the local media reports. According to the report, the song which...

Political and economic relations between Iran and Venezuela have grown over the past two decades. The South American country has the largest known oil reserves in the world but,...

Finland's President Sauli Niinisto confirmed on Sunday that his country would apply for membership of the NATO military alliance, in a historic policy shift prompted by Russia's invasion of...

Turkey has offered sea evacuation for wounded Ukrainian fighters

Former British-Israeli treasurer of the UK's Conservative Party has been reported to authorities over suspicions of money laundering after a six-figure donation towards the prime minister's election campaign was...

The tourism sector in Turkiye has been hardest hit by the war between Ukraine and Russia, as the two nations make up the largest group to visit Turkiye, DW reports. According to the report,...

Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, visited Oman on Wednesday, a fellow member of the OPEC+ alliance of oil producers, where he met with the Gulf Arab state's ruling Sultan,...