The European Union (EU) supports efforts being made by Kuwait to mediate a solution to the current Gulf crisis, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Frederica...

Libyan coastguards said on Monday they had recovered the bodies of five migrants and picked 191 survivors off the coast west of the capital Tripoli, Reuters reports. Libya’s western...

The European Union is funding a project to prosecute Israel Defence Forces (IDF) officers for committing violations against Palestinian civilians, according to Israel Hayom, which quotes a local human...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will visit neutral European neighbours Switzerland and Austria next month, the Swiss and Austrian governments said, on a trip overshadowed by the looming imposition of...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, struggling to avert a crisis within her coalition on migrant policy, is trying to set up a meeting of some EU states to discuss the...

Saved from death at sea but denied a place to land by Italy, the 629 migrants rescued by the charity ship Aquarius have endured an additional 700 nautical mile-trip...

Human Rights Campaigners say Kimberley Process Must Suspend Israel and Ban Israeli Diamonds Exports, according to their press release. A global coalition of organisations working for justice and peace...

The entire international community and institutions are treating Gaza as an experimentation ground. To compensate for the concordance in human rights violations against Palestinians in the enclave, there is...

Italy plans to transfer migrants crammed aboard a charity boat onto other vessels today and then sail them all to Spain, despite appeals from humanitarian groups to let the...

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini in Amman, Jordan on June 10, 2018

Jordan is pinning hopes on oil-rich Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia committing to a multi-billion dollar aid package to help it weather an economic crisis that sparked rare...

European Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini has cancelled an official visit to Israel, which was scheduled for Sunday, Israeli media reported Friday. According to Israel’s Channel Two, Mogherini was...

The European Commission has called for the continuation of the bilateral migrant readmission deal between Turkey and Greece. “The commission’s position is that it should be continuously implemented in...

The European Investment Bank on Wednesday said it could not ignore US sanctions on Iran, rejecting the EU executive plan that it to do business there in an effort to...

When a Polish MP first announced that mysterious planes were landing in the night in a forest, eyebrows were raised, eyeballs swung upwards, and some MPs even broke out...

NATO’s secretary-general says the alliance wouldn’t come to Israel’s defence in case of attack by arch enemy Iran. Jens Stoltenberg told German magazine Der Spiegel in comments published on Saturday that...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir told the Khartoum State government yesterday that Sudan was still suffering from a politically motivated economic embargo and was being deprived of international debt cancellation,...

The EU considers Egypt it’s most important trading partner in the Southern Mediterranean, head of the EU delegation to Egypt Ivan Surkos said at the commission’s annual iftar event...

The European Parliament yesterday condemned human rights violations in Saudi Arabia and called for the immediate release of all detainees including activists Nawaf Al-Rasheed and Raef Badawi and stop...

The Al Jazeera film documented some of the ways the Islamophobia industry's incitement and hate-filled ideology filters through to and inspires the perpetrators of such violence.

Activists laid out 4,500 pairs of shoes in front of the Council of the EU in Belgium on 28 May 2018 to represent every person killed in the Israel-Palestine conflict in the past decade

Swiss lender Banque de Commerce et de Placements (BCP) has suspended new transactions with Iran and is winding down Iran-related activities, the latest company to halt business after the United States said...

The European Union has extended the sanctions it has imposed on the Syrian regime for another year. The Council of the European Union issued a statement in which it...

China will host Iranian President Hassan Rouhani next month at a regional summit in a Chinese coastal city, the country’s foreign ministry said on Monday, as major power scramble...

About 140 East African migrants escaped from smugglers holding them captive near the Libyan town of Bani Walid earlier this week, according to a local source and a UN report....

Iran wants European powers to present it with measures by the end of May to compensate it for the United States abandoning the 2015 nuclear deal, a senior official...

Morocco’s left-wing parties are preparing to hold candlelight protest marches at night on Saturday because of what they described as “deteriorating economic conditions and the decline in media, trade...

Germany’s small-to-medium-sized firms, or Mittelstand, are scrambling to work out how to maintain business in Iran after a meeting between Germany’s foreign minister and his US counterpart dashed any hopes of...

Egypt’s chief prosecutor has referred 40 defendants to trial accusing them of human trafficking and migrant smuggling. The suspects face an array of charges including embezzlement, forging official documents,...

Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources, Yuval Steinitz slammed the European Union yesterday, saying it could  “go to a thousand hells” after the body called for...

The US has threatened Iran with “the strongest sanctions in history” if it does not comply with a set of US demands, which critics have said is nothing short...

On Friday, the European Union has announced measures that would enable it to avoid US sanctions on Iran or possibly block them. The measures are designed to avoid tens...