EU countries decided to remove Morocco from its free travel list granting entry to non-EU nationals to the bloc’s territory, reports Anadolu Agency.  The decision came a week after...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun called on Arab countries today to support Lebanon in the wake of a massive explosion at the Beirut port, Anadolu Agency reports. “Lebanon needs any...

Journalists in Yemen have been facing harsh treatment including killings, disappearances and death sentences, United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet revealed on Thursday. “It is...

More than 1,200 homes have been damaged or destroyed and several hundred people rendered homeless due to the Nile River floods in Sudan, the United Nations Office for Coordination...

The political official from the Libyan National Struggle Front, Ahmed Gaddaf Al Dam, blamed NATO and UN Security Council over the political crisis and struggles in Libya, news agencies...

UN agencies said Friday they are working full out to assist Beirut’s beleaguered population with food and medical supplies for a country that imports 85% of its food and...

The UN’s human rights chief said on Thursday she is appalled by the number of human rights violations against journalists across Yemen — including killings, disappearances, and death sentences,...

Cori Bush, a Black Lives Matter activist and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli occupation, caused an historical upset yesterday in the US...

After five years as Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon has been appointed as the Zionist state’s Ambassador to Australia, although he still awaits official approval. Do the...

Luxembourg warned Israel that if it fulfills its plan to annex parts of the West Bank, other European Union countries would recognize Palestine as an independent state, German daily...

Libya’s Toubou tribes yesterday filed a lawsuit at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against renegade General Khalifa Haftar over last year’s massacre in the city of Murzuq. In a...

The Executive Director of the UN World Food Program, David Paisley, said yesterday that as many as 13 million Yemenis receive food aid from the WFP through a network...

The General Organisation for the Preservation of Historic Cities of Yemen (GOPHCY) on Monday appealed to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and international bodies to...

Jordanian security forces on Tuesday used tear gas to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators it blamed for disrupting public services during a protest demanding the release of leaders of the opposition-run...

A group of investors is raising concerns about the treatment of migrant workers in the Gulf, warning that labour practices risk leading to abuses such as modern slavery. The...

Nesreen Rasho had applied to attend college in northern Iraq when Daesh militants kidnapped her and sold her into slavery in their 2014 assault on her Yazidi homeland. Rasho...

While the Palestine Liberation Organisation has been calling upon the EU to step up from rhetoric to action regarding Israel’s forthcoming annexation of occupied West Bank territory, Europe’s Foreign...

Lebanon has failed to make positive progress on human rights issues since 2015, a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. The publication, which was submitted to the...

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has expressed its dissatisfaction with the decision of a military court in Benghazi which sentenced photojournalist, Ismail Bouzreiba Al-Zway, to 15 years...

Foreign donors have made it clear there will be no aid until Beirut enacts long-stalled reforms to tackle state waste and corruption

Iran’s foreign minister blamed the US and Europe for funding and protecting terrorists Saturday following the arrest of the leader of a US-based anti-government group. “The west must cease...

Lebanon is prepared to defend itself against Israel’s attacks, which are in violation of the 2006 UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution, Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday. In...

The United States should not stop United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from naming a new UN Libya envoy to replace Ghassan Salame who quit nearly five months ago, Germany’s...

Over the past few days, 99 vulnerable asylum applicants have been relocated to Finland and Germany, as part of the European Union’s ongoing support to frontline Member States, the...

There is an ongoing debate about the extent of the European Union’s commitment to human rights, specifically around the issue of refugees and migrants. Their reception across the continent...

The European People’s Party (EPP), the largest parliamentary bloc in the European Parliament, has called to secure the life of former Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Nayef and to...

Libya’s delegate to the United Nations (UN) Taher Al-Sunni criticised the selectivity of the UN sanctions committees, stressing their ineffectiveness in stopping violations and agency to some countries that...

Lebanon’s economic crisis, compounded by the global coronavirus pandemic, has pushed nearly one million people, among them 500,000 children, in Beirut into a “ to survive”, a Save the Children...

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said yesterday that the visit of French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to his country brought nothing new. This came in a statement delivered...

When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli...

The United States and Europe called on Turkey to release jailed businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who on Monday marked his 1,000th day in prison without a conviction and...

Libyan authorities shot dead three Sudanese migrants trying to flee detention late on Monday, as they disembarked from a failed attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, a UN...