Just months ago, Cameroonian migrant Wilfred Christopher had a home and stable job as a pastry chef in Abu Dhabi. Now, the 26-year-old fears for his life after authorities...

The United Nations' political mission in Libya is being blocked by Russia, threatening the country's unity ahead of a presidential election due to be held on 24 December, diplomatic...

With only a month to go until its pandemic-delayed opening, Dubai Expo 2020 has come under fire in Europe, and there is a real possibility that several countries will...

The Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak yesterday called on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states to hold an emergency conference to provide economic support to Yemen,...

The mere thought of having a colonial enterprise enjoying red carpet treatment within an anticolonial setting beggars belief. Even more so when that setting is the African Union, because...

Algeria is preparing a new investment law to improve its business climate and attract foreign investors with the aim of boosting the non-energy sector, Prime Minister Ayman Benabderrahmane said...

Lebanon's cabinet yesterday approved a policy programme that aims to tackle one of the worst financial meltdowns in history, Reuters reports. With Lebanon in the throes of economic collapse, three quarters...

Iran yesterday dismissed the UN nuclear watchdog's work as "unprofessional" and "unfair" shortly before the two sides are due to hold talks aimed at resolving a standoff over the origin...

A group of international lawyers, researchers and activists today filed a complaint with the African Commission on Human and People's Rights seeking the revocation of Israel's observer status at...

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is spearheading an initiative ahead of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, urging governments and diplomats to reject the so-called anti-Israel bias at an international...

Morocco's ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, announced on Wednesday that the Kingdom has agreed to the appointment of Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura as the Secretary-General's envoy...

Last week marked 22 years since the African Union (AU) replaced the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) which was created in 1963 with only 32 members. The other 22...

Qatari envoy to the region and head of Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, Mohammad Al Emadi, said on Tuesday that his country laid down mechanism to deliver...

Saudi Arabia has rejected the findings of a report prepared by a group of regional and international experts on Yemen, which accused all parties to the conflict of violating...

The world watched as the Taliban swept across Afghanistan and seized the capital Kabul, and the faction announcement of an interim government on 7 September was further evidence of...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday said that he sees no reason to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, describing the establishment of a Palestinian state a "terrible...

The UN has been accused of attempting to return refugees in Syria's Rukban camp forcibly to areas held by the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. The international organisation has denied...

What does the Palestinian Authority care about the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails? If the rhetoric of Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh is all we have to go...

Lebanon will sign a new contract for a forensic audit of the central bank with Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) within days, the outgoing Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni said today,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Syrian counterpart Bashar Al-Assad in Moscow yesterday. The two leaders criticised the role of foreign military forces in the ongoing conflict in Syria....

An American city council resolution to endorse a peaceful boycott of Israel has been shelved over fears raised by sections of the Jewish community that it promotes anti-Semitism. Council...

Syria is still unsafe for the return of refugees a decade after its conflict began, UN war crimes investigators said today, documenting worsening violence and rights violations including arbitrary...

The UN secretary-general on Monday declared a flash appeal conference a success, with more than $1 billion in pledges made at a special high-level ministerial meeting on Afghanistan's humanitarian...

Western powers on Monday scrapped plans for a resolution criticising Iran at the UN atomic watchdog after Tehran agreed to prolong monitoring of some nuclear activities, even though the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday that it expects Oman's economy to recover this year with a projected growth of 2.5 per cent, spurred by non-hydrocarbon GDP growth...

Death, destruction and endless streams of refugees have become a common theme in the documentation of war, to the point of becoming almost numbing in their repetitiveness. However, another...

The UN will begin distributing aid to thousands of poor families in the besieged Gaza Strip today under a programme funded by Qatar, the organisation's Middle East envoy announced...

Turkey has condemned a statement by the Arab League saying that Ankara is interfering in regional affairs. The allegation is a blow to recent reconciliation efforts between Turkey and...

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday said the country would not tolerate any foreign interference as he faces rising pressure from Western governments to restore constitutional order after seizing...

Iran is to allow the UN nuclear watchdog to service monitoring cameras at Iranian nuclear sites after talks on Sunday with IAEA head Rafael Grossi, according to the head...

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will fly to Tehran this weekend for talks that may ease a standoff between Iran and the West just as it risks escalating...

The Palestinian Ministry of Education has announced that Nesreen Qutainah, a science and maths teacher at Dora Primary School for Girls in the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil...